Workmanship Quotes

33 quotes by 28 authors

Workers must root out the idea that by keeping the results of their labors to themselves a fortune will be assured to them. Patent fees… — Lawrence Hargrave
The workmanship was better than the subject matter. — Ovid
You don't have to preach honesty to men with creative purpose. Let a human being throw the engines of his soul into the making of… — Walter Lippmann
Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds you stuff of any degree of fineness; but, nevertheless, what you get out… — Thomas Huxley
Beavers build houses; but they build them in nowise differently, or better now, than they did, five thousand years ago. Ants, and honey-bees, provide food… — Abraham Lincoln
We have strayed from the Immortal's ways And worship with a dull and senseless mind Idols, the workmanship of our own hands, And images and… — Justin Martyr
The King saw them with no common satisfaction, expressing his desire in no particular to have yt Stellar fish engraven and printed. We wish very… — Henry Oldenburg
And when with excellent Microscopes I discern in otherwise invisible Objects the Inimitable Subtlety of Nature's Curious Workmanship; And when, in a word, by the… — Robert Boyle
Make the workmanship surpass the materials. — Ovid
In all places where there is a Summer and a Winter, and where your Gardens of pleasure are sometimes clothed with their verdant garments, and… — John Worlidge
But though such is our character (Oh. why should I speak of things unfit to be uttered?), the things said of us are an example… — Athenagoras of Athens
Both poverty and wealth, therefore, have a bad effect on the quality of the work and the workman himself. Wealth and poverty, I answered. One… — Plato
To lay hold of and receive the gospel by a true and saving faith is an act of the soul that has been made a… — John Bunyan
What a curious workmanship is that of the eye, which is in the body, as the sun in the world; set in the head as… — Stephen Charnock
High standards generally -- about workmanship and creation of objects, about what is owed in friendship, about the quality of art and much else --… — Joseph Epstein
The aim of leadership should be to improve the performance of man and machine, to improve quality, to increase output, and simultaneously to bring pride… — W. Edwards Deming
Man is not the only animal who labors; but he is the only one who improves his workmanship. — Abraham Lincoln
Occasionally, in times of worry, I've longed to be stylish, but on second thought I say no-just let me be myself-and express rough, yet true… — Vincent Van Gogh
There's something about smoking a cigar that feels like a celebration. It's like a fine wine. There's a quality, a workmanship, a passion that goes… — Demi Moore
Many able Gardeners and Husbandmen are yet Ignorant of the Reason of their Calling; as most Artificers are of the Reason of their own Rules… — William Penn

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