Craft Quotes

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
Ernest Hemingway

Master, Becomes

I just like to keep challenging myself, keep it varied. It's a craft, and I'm constantly trying to learn and get better at it.
Clive Owen

Trying, Keep, Learn

It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is no longer compelled, as among the Egyptians, to succeed to his father's craft.
Honore de Balzac

Father, Become, Rather

We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it's security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Love, Work, Peace

Hairdressing in general hasn't been given the kudos it deserves. It's not recognised by enough people as a worthy craft.
Vidal Sassoon

Enough, General, Worthy

You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do.
Steve Martin

Art, Whatever, Bit

Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.
Raymond Chandler

Art, End, Nothing

And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.
Wole Soyinka

Work, Best, Learning

If it's flipping hamburgers at McDonald's, be the best hamburger flipper in the world. Whatever it is you do you have to master your craft.
Snoop Dogg

Best, Whatever, Master

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
Hippocrates

Life, Long, Short

The difference between people who believe they have books inside of them and those who actually write books is sheer cussed persistence - the ability to make yourself work at your craft, every day - the belief, even in the face of obstacles, that you've got something worth saying.
Jennifer Weiner

Work, Yourself, Saying

Acting is something I love. It's a great craft that I have a lot of respect for. But I don't think it's any greater challenge than teaching 8-year-olds or any other career. In my life, I try not to make it more important than it is and I just hope that rubs off on the people around me.
Hugh Jackman

Life, Love, Great

Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.
Jean de la Bruyere

Book, Making, Needs

Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft.
David Hockney

As I get into it more, I want to grow as an artist, as an entertainer, and basically perfect my craft.
Justin Bieber

Perfect, Artist, Grow

I grew up studying ballet; I grew up honing my craft.
Janice Dickinson

Studying, Ballet, Honing

I wanted to be the best actor possible. I worked very hard at the craft of it.
Jack Nicholson

Best, Hard, Wanted

It helps immerse yourself in what you potentially want to do. Being involved, learning firsthand and observing the craft and absorbing all you can, makes it easier to define what you want. It will also ultimately make you a better Chef. Culinary school, or even a single class, is a great bet too.
Giada De Laurentiis

Great, Learning, School

Social media is a giant distraction to the ultimate aim, which is honing your craft as a songwriter. There are people who are exceptional at it, however, and if you can do both things, then that's fantastic, but if you are a writer, the time is better spent on a clever lyric than a clever tweet.
Bryan Adams

Time, Social, Both

Bands today have to learn their craft by putting the hard work in that we did when we were young performers.
Elton John

Work, Today, Hard

Obviously, I haven't really progressed that much at my craft.
Rod Stewart

Obviously, Progressed

You either create something and you keep it a secret and you die with it, or you can benefit the craft.
Vidal Sassoon

Die, Keep, Secret

I will never master this craft. Orchestras are very, very forthcoming with me.
David Ogden Stiers

Master, Orchestras

Joe Klein is the flower of American political journalism, a sharp raconteur who shows traces of the gonzo style that was in vogue when he was honing his craft at Rolling Stone back in the day.
Thomas Frank

Political, Flower, American

A diva is someone who is a perfectionist, who does her best in her craft.
Patti LaBelle

Best, Someone, Her

It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Life, Genius, Gift

Compared to industry in Europe or Japan, where industry was based on a craft tradition, we are sadly behind.
Arthur Erickson

Behind, Europe, Industry

In those countries with centuries of a craft tradition behind their building methods, techniques are tightly coordinated under the direction of the architect.
Arthur Erickson

Direction, Behind, Building

Well, the odds must be against anybody being able to fly around the world in a balloon on the first attempt. All of us who are attempting to go around the world in balloons are effectively flying in experimental craft because these craft cannot be tested.
Richard Branson

Cannot, Around, Able

I actually really love working with young actors because they're so responsive and instinctive, and it's a much less honed craft that they're employing.
Clive Owen

Love, Working, Young

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