Craftsmanship Quote by Lloyd Alexander

The usefulness of a pot comes from its emptiness.

— Laozi

When you go to fetch water and do not return, they do not inquire about the pot.

— Vikrant Parsai

Do not think lightly of good, that nothing will come of it. A whole water pot will fill up from dripping drops of water.

— Gautama Buddha

Thus have you the way of making Conserves, the way of keeping of them is in Earthen pots.

— Nicholas Culpeper

As the quality of water changes with the nature of the soil;So will a man's reason vary with the quality of his friends.

— Thiruvalluvar

Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good.

— Anonymous

Yes, the work comes out more beautiful from a material that resists the process, verse, marble, onyx, or enamel.

— Theophile Gautier

Every pot is not going to be a masterpiece.

— Warren MacKenzie

I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part…

— Ernest Hemingway

So deeply is the gardener's instinct implanted in my soul, I really love the tools with which I work; the iron fork, the spade,…

— Celia Thaxter

Do not grudge To pick out treasures from an earthen pot. The worst speaks something good.

— George Herbert

“The man who is wise, therefore, will see his life as more like a reservoir than a canal. The canal simultaneously pours out what…

— Bernard of Clairvaux