The professional respects his craft. He does not consider himself superior to it. He recognizes the contributions of those who have gone… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
I think acting for sure takes a lot of dedication, especially when you're starting out, because it's so much rejection and it's… — Bitsie Tulloch Copy Share Image
I don't think you think of your audience as much as you think, when you're revising, how it holds together. I mean… — Carolyn See Copy Share Image
I think that all actors find they go down and then they come back up if you work on your craft. They… — Johnathon Schaech Copy Share Image
I hate actual newspapers. In my opinion, they are only good for wrapping up presents or cleaning mirrors. Or packing boxes. Or… — Jasika Nicole Copy Share Image
It's harder to work with people who are not as dedicated to their craft. It also leaves you a better actor when… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
The key factor separating geniuses from the merely accomplished is not a divine spark. It's not I.Q., a generally bad predictor of… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
I think your posing and your onstage presentation is yet another piece of the craft. So anytime you get onstage to show… — Kai Greene Copy Share Image
That's the type of thing you need to keep in mind when drawing comics. The storytelling. Consider the action and the space… — Declan Shalvey Copy Share Image
Each one of us pray, day and night, for the downtrodden millions in India, who are held fast by poverty, priest craft,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
the twelve or fifteen millions in the British Empire, who, while they possess no electoral rights, are yet persuaded they are freemen,… — Richard Cobden Copy Share Image
Colour, as the strange and magnificent expression of the inscrutable spectrum of Eternity, is beautiful and important to me as a painter;… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
To me, art is the capacity to experience one's innocence: craft is how you get to that point. Maturity in a musician… — Robert Fripp Copy Share Image
Pretty much at the age of 16, I realized acting wasn't going to be the vocation for me...too political not enough creative… — Holly Golightly Copy Share Image
I've never done a lead role in a film this big [like Doctor Strange], in a franchise this big. One of the… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
If you are serious, and you want to make a living as an author, then you need to hustle. Period. If you… — Larry Correia Copy Share Image
If [hand-drawn animation] is a dying craft, we can't do anything about it. Civilization moves on. Where are all the fresco painters… — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
When you talk about painters and you talk about painters painting masterpieces, there is no painter who painted only one painting and… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
School is such an encouraging and safe environment. It's filled with idealism and just really working on your craft. When you enter… — Troy Garity Copy Share Image
Time is what makes good stories. Much has been cooking for a long time, and at last finds an out in narration… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
Social media is a giant distraction to the ultimate aim, which is honing your craft as a songwriter. There are people who… — Bryan Adams Copy Share Image
During my long investigation of these strange objects, I have seen many reports verified by Air Force Intelligence, detailed accounts by Air… — Donald Keyhoe Copy Share Image
The things that have always drawn me to the craft of writing is character, it's story, it's something that becomes like a… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
There is a trend in the whole [U.S.] culture toward making things shorter. People have been watching too much television, and they… — Rocco Landesman Copy Share Image
Whether it's a letter, song lyrics, part of a novel, or instructions on how to fix a kitchen sink, it's writing. You… — Jimmy Buffett Copy Share Image
I really wasn't equipped to be a writer when I left Oxford. But then I set out to learn. I've always had… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
The craft of questions, the craft of stories, the craft of the hands - all these are the making of something, and… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
Artistry is important. Skill, hard work, rewriting, editing, and careful, careful craft: All of these are necessary. These are what separate the… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
The balance when you're catching people up, and the craft of what we do as actors, is to try to make sure… — Jack Coleman Copy Share Image
Art is craft: all art is always and essentially a work of craft: but in the true work of art, before the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
A knowledge of craft is not the enemy of creativity. You sit down to write and realize, today's going to be a… — K. M. Soehnlein Copy Share Image
Everytime a lawyer writes something, he is not writing for posterity, he is writing something so that endless others of his craft… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Directing is such alchemy, it's so easy to fail. And I've seen people who are great at their jobs because everybody has… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
The profit motive is not only fundamental to our ability to reward shareholders and pay employees; it's fundamental to excellent journalism. Far… — Lachlan Murdoch Copy Share Image
Whoever is the cause of another becoming powerful, is ruined himself; for that power is produced by him either through craft or… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Broadway remains the closest thing we have to a national theatre, the place where the greatest number of people can potentially see… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
It takes stamina to get up like an athlete every single night, seven to eight performances a week, 20 weeks in a… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
Out in the Pool certain other boats caught the eye... each carried a bright fire amidships, in a brazier, beside a man,… — Arthur Morrison Copy Share Image
It's about learning your craft. That's a wonderful thing--especially with today's consumerism and instant gratification. You can'tbuy that. It's about making decisions,… — Billie Jean King Copy Share Image
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