Craftsmen Quotes
29 quotes by 29 authors
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The field of scientific abstraction encompasses independent kingdoms of ideas and of experiments and within these, rulers whose fame outlasts the centuries. But they are…
— Fritz Haber
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Nevertheless, the Tenth Commandment-'Thou shalt not covet'-recognizes that making money and owning things could become selfish activities. But it is not the creation of wealth…
— Margaret Thatcher
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The movies today are too rich to have any room for genuine artists. They produce a few passable craftsmen, but no artists. Can you imagine…
— H. L. Mencken
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The streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers.
— Man Ray
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The ultimate aim of all artistic activity is building! ... Architects, sculptors, painters, we must all get back to craft! ... The artist is a…
— Walter Gropius
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If America could be, once again, a nation of self-reliant farmers, craftsmen, hunters, ranchers, and artists, then the rich would have little power to dominate…
— Edward Abbey
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There are no bigger donkeys than these workers.... Look at our 'craftsmen'; Sad that world history should be be made with such people.
— Karl Marx
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American parents, on the whole, do not want their sons to be artisans or craftsmen, but business or professional people. As a result, millions of…
— Sydney J. Harris
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We are more likely to fail as craftsmen due to our inability to organize obsession than because of our lack of ability.
— Richard Sennett
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One succeeds in obtaining an equivalent production at a lower price by improving the arts, trades and agriculture and by developing the physical and moral…
— Antoine Lavoisier
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Dear young people of every language and culture, a high and exhilarating task awaits you: that of becoming men and women capable of solidarity, peace…
— Pope John Paul II
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I am an animator. I feel like I'm the manager of a animation cinema factory. I am not an executive. I'm rather like a foreman,…
— Hayao Miyazaki
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I’m so thrilled to manufacture in LA and to support the finely skilled craftsmen and women. Making it in America ensures that the fashion industry…
— Nanette Lepore
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We want to be in control of our lives. Whether we are jungle fighters, craftsmen, company men, gamesmen, we want to be in control. And…
— Barbara Jordan
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The productions of all arts are kinds of poetry and their craftsmen are all poets.
— Plato
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When I write, I fall into the zone many writers, painters, musicians, athletes, and craftsmen of all sorts seem to share: In doing something I…
— Roger Ebert
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The cold, mean 'Sunset Boulevard' - a beautiful title, though I suspect it was shot on another boulevard - is further proof of the resurgence…
— Manny Farber
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Great art... is the result of the labours of thousands of faithful craftsmen who know that they are doomed to remain for ever outside the…
— Hendrik Willem van Loon
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The judges of England have rarely been original thinkers or great jurists. Many have been craftsmen rather than creators.
— Patrick Devlin, Baron Devlin
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It may happen in the next hundred years that the English novelists of the present day will come to be valued as we now value…
— Evelyn Waugh
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