Excellence Quote by Ellen Ruppel Shell

Craftsmanship names an enduring, basic human impulse, the desire to do a job well for its own sake.

— Richard Sennett

“there’s something liberating about the craftsman mindset: It asks you to leave behind self-centered concerns about whether your job is “just right,” and instead…

— Cal Newport

When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge by:…

— Jean de la Bruyere

“To what extent the machine abases us. - The machine is impersonal, it deprives the piece of work of its pride, of the individual…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“craftsman mindset is the foundation for creating work you love.”

— Cal Newport

“When the maker's (or fixer's) activity is immediately situated within a community of use, it can be enlivened by this kind of direct perception.…

— Anonymous

It is the accuracy and detail inherent in crafted goods that endows them with lasting value. It is the time and attention paid by…

— Tim Jackson

“The Carpenter Shop”

— Wendell Berry

“A man with battered hands is shown to be a craftsman only when he puts them to work.”

— Miguel Syjuco

“Did you ever ask yourself if each one of us pursued a high educational degree, who would do the skilled manual work? Craftsmanship may…

— Gloria D. Gonsalves

“Like a soldier, the carpenter sharpens his own tools. He carries his equipment in his tool box, and works under the direction of his…

— Miyamoto Musashi

“If I demand to be both the craftsman and the tool, I will be neither.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough