Crafts Quotes · Page 8

Nobody wants to see the village of the happy people.

— Lew Hunter

The writer is one who, emnbarking upon a task, does not know what to do.

— Donald Barthelme

I'm always studying my craft because I want to be the best at what I do.

— Aaron Carter

I just want to keep acting and better my craft and see how far it goes.

— Barkhad Abdi

In what we think of as bad dialogue, the characters talk directly to each other.

— Diane Johnson

Mediocre writers borrow; great writers steal.

— T. S. Eliot

God loves and delights to cross worldly proverbs and worldly craft.

— Joseph Caryl

The only thing you have then to believe in is your craft.

— Frank Langella

Talent without craft is like fuel without an engine, it burns wildly but accomplishes nothing.

— Robert McKee

Design is in everything we make, but it's also between those things. It's a mix of craft, science, storytelling, propaganda, and philosophy.

— Erik Adigard

I dont want to waste my energy in other things; instead, I would put all that in reaching the next level in…

— N. T. Rama Rao Jr

Game design isn’t just a technological craft. It’s a twenty-first-century way of thinking and leading.

— Jane McGonigal

Sit down every day and DO IT. Writing is a self-taught craft; the more you work at it, the more skilled you…

— Lois Duncan

I'm not pretending to be somebody who's got really limited craft skills. I just am a person who's got really limited craft…

— David Shrigley

I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.

— Fede Alvarez

With my daughter, we do arts and crafts, we read a lot, we listen to music, and we cut the strings off…

— Lisa Loeb

My parents, and especially my mother, encouraged by the director of the local school which I was attending, wanted in spite of…

— Leon Jouhaux

There are three necessary elements in a story - exposition, development, and drama. Exposition we may illustrate as "John Fortescue was a…

— Frank O'Connor

I thought I'd go to a craft fair, and there would be a jar of jellybeans there - "Guess how many jellybeans…

— Mitch Hedberg

I loved my time on All My Children. That show was a family to me. I am so sad that daytime is…

— Eva LaRue

Never hesitate to imitate another writer - every person learning a craft or an art needs models. Eventually you'll find your own…

— William Zinsser

Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating. There…

— Al Pacino

Arts, crafts and sciences uplift the world of being, and are conducive to its exaltation. Knowledge is as wings to man's life,…

— Bahá'u'lláh

Imagine the first Burmese "giraffe woman"; she was probably a local icon in her village in the way she put the rings…

— Noma Bar

The last few decades have belonged to a certain kind of person with a certain kind of mind-computer programmers who could crank…

— Daniel H. Pink

It [The Gesundheit Institute] also won't separate the healing arts. All of them work together - traditional medicine and surgery with acupuncture,…

— Patch Adams

I usually base my characters on composites of people I know. One trumpet player in SIDE MAN is really a mix of…

— Warren Leight

Photography begins not in the camera but in the mind and the eye. The real work is one of noticing and appreciating,…

— Bill Atkinson

Any photographer worth his/her salt - that is, any photographer of professional caliber, in control of the craft, regardless of imagistic bent…

— A. D. Coleman

I've talked with people of stature-of military and government credentials and position-and heard their stories, and their desire to tell their stories…

— Edgar Mitchell

It was a roller-coaster process. For a long time I had no idea what I was doing. I wasn't writing with an…

— David Rabe

Big Idea - Your days are your life in miniature. As you live your hours, so you create your years. As you…

— Robin Sharma

Study the rules so that you won't beat yourself by not knowing something.

— Babe Didrikson Zaharias

The secret is to start a story near the ending.

— Chris Offutt

A small craft in an ocean is, or should be, a benevolent dictatorship.

— Tristan Jones

I took my work seriously, but not as a craft. More as a life.

— Brooke Shields

Look if you like, but you will have to leap.

— W. H. Auden

I became famous almost before I had a craft.

— Farrah Fawcett

Without passion, all the skill in the world won't lift you above craft,

— Twyla Tharp

If you're lucky as you get older, you respect the craft and it becomes a skill

— Frank Langella