Craft Quotes - page 16

If you can strum the guitar a little, hit the drums - it's always fun and a good way to release tensions...You can have a hard day at work, pick up your instrument and just feel better. You also can appreciate why a performer is up on stage and see how they have spent their life learning their craft. (Pete Escovedo)
I think it's a shame when you come across young actors and musicians who haven't had the time to learn their craft. It doesn't matter if it's acting or music, you really have to learn how to do it from the bottom up because unless you have a great work ethic... fame is a terrible thing to have. View quote
Denis Leary
The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of. View quote
John Irving
I think it right to warn my reader, that there are more passages than one in the book, which are of that nature, which will be perfectly understood by my Masonic friends, but which my engagements prevent me explaining to the world at large. My Masonic friends will find their craft very often referred to. I believe, however that they will not find any of their secrets betrayed; but I trust they will find it proved, that their art is the remains of a very fine ancient system, or, perhaps, more properly, a branch of the fine and beautiful system of WISDOM which, in this work, I have developed. View quote
Godfrey Higgins
I've learned a lot about doing accessories and making shoes and handbags. I don't think my perspective has really changed. The subtlety of understanding yarns, what makes a fabric what it is - I've learned technical skills and more about the craft. View quote
Marc Jacobs
History handed Lenin a gift in the shapre of the First World War. He grasped it with both hands and used it to craft an insurrection. It is revolutions that make history happen. Liberals of every sort, with rare exceptions, are found on the other side. View quote
Tariq Ali
The only way for me to be an artist is to be honest in my craft. If I veer from that, I'm not giving the investors what they want. Sometimes it's my job as an artist to know what I want to do, even when the fans tell me different. View quote
Talib Kweli
I hope that by 2050 the entire solar system will have been explored and mapped by flotillas of tiny robotic craft. View quote
Martin Rees
As I get into it more, I want to grow as an artist, as an entertainer, and basically perfect my craft. View quote
Justin Bieber
Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet. View quote
Henry Mintzberg
The professional respects his craft. He does not consider himself superior to it. He recognizes the contributions of those who have gone before him. He apprentices himself to them. (Steven Pressfield)
I wanted to be the best actor possible. I worked very hard at the craft of it. View quote
Jack Nicholson
The separation of talent and skill is one of the greatest misunderstood concepts for people who are trying to excel, who have dreams, who want to do things. Talent you have naturally. Skill is only developed by hours and hours and hours of beating on your craft. View quote
Will Smith
It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more. View quote
Édouard Manet
In the world of literature, I see prizes as more of a duty to the craft itself, rather than as something for the individual. View quote
Wole Soyinka
The cooking profession, while it's a noble craft and a noble calling, 'cause you're doing something useful - you're feeding people, you're nurturing them, you're providing sustenance - it was never pure. View quote
Anthony Bourdain
Every writer I admire is my teacher. If you look at it, and if you care to read carefully enough and to read and reread a text, you teach yourself something about craft. View quote
Sandra Cisneros
I don't believe that we all should eat squirrels and craft our own doorknobs. View quote
Elizabeth Warren
But there is craft, and plenty of it - craft enough to impose on mature men, not to say innocent boys; and this is called profession. View quote
Desiderius Erasmus
I think that we live in a time where it's easier to be suspicious of dedicated men and women, people dedicated to their craft, because the world around them inspires them to be lazy. It inspires them to be negative. It inspires them to be snarky. View quote
Ryan Adams
I think MTV put a huge dent in the songwriting craft. (Christopher Cross)
The helm went down hard and we just cleared the rocks.Otherwise it would have been the end of this poor craft. Our ancient skipper, who was responsible for the error in pilotage, is now wearing what is called his "stuffed monkey expression!" View quote
Evelyn Underhill
We are bringing women into politics to change the nature of politics, to change the vision, to change the institutions. Women are not wedded to the policies of the past. We didn't craft them. They didn't let us. View quote
Bella Abzug
I'm convinced that the victim-to-be picks out the assailant with as much skill and craft as the murderer seeks his victim, and until we learn much more about both, we'll get nowhere battling crime. View quote
Robert Butts
Acting, to me, has been many things: It's a business, and it's a craft, and it's a political act - it's whatever adjective is most applicable. View quote
Adam Driver