His Tools Quotes
27 quotes by 26 authors
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Fourthly, the way of the artisan. The way of the carpenter is to become proficient in the use of his tools, first to lay his…
— Miyamoto Musashi
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There's an old saying,'It's a poor craftsman who blames his tools.' It's usually the player who misses those three-footers, not the putter.
— Kathy Whitworth
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The picket line is the best place to train organizers. One day on the picket line is where a man makes his commitment. The longer…
— Cesar Chavez
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The photographer's most important and likewise most difficult task is not learning to manage his camera, or to develop, or to print. It is learning…
— Edward Weston
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Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
— Arthur Miller
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One day, the Devil decided to go out of business. His tools, therefore, being for sale, were put on display; and Malice, Jealousy, and Pride…
— James Keller
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Every wise workman takes his tools away from the work from time to time that they may be ground and sharpened; so does the only-wise…
— Robert Murray M'Cheyne
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Maybe because it's entirely an artist's eye, patience and skill that makes an image and not his tools.
— Ken Rockwell
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A paradigm is a powerful theoretical and methodological framework which defines the working lives of thousands of intelligent and disciplined minds. And paradigms do not…
— John Naughton
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At the utmost, the active-minded young man should ask of his teacher only mastery of his tools. The young man himself, the subject of education,…
— Henry Adams
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The reverence that the object maker has for the materials, for the shape, and for the miracle of his skill transcends to God, the Master…
— Sam Maloof
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Just as a man working with his tools should know its limitations, a man working with his cognitive apparatus must know its limitations.
— Charlie Munger
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No doubt, man will continue to weigh and to measure, watch himself grow, and his Universe around him and with him, according to the ever…
— Albert Claude
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A workman who wants to do his work well must first prepare his tools.
— Confucius
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A bad workman quarrels with his tools.
— George Herbert
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My great-grandfather Melvin had been a carpenter - so was my father - and they taught me the value of tools: saws, hammers, chisels, files…
— Yusef Komunyakaa
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When a workman knows the use of his tools, he can make a door as well as a window.
— George Eliot
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He was a worker whose only desire was to penetrate with all his forces into the humble and difficult significance of his tools. Therein lay…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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The skeptic says that the believer has lost his own mind under God. On the contrary, it is the people who follow God who are…
— Criss Jami
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The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
— Confucius
Who Wrote These His Tools Quotes
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