Top Crafts Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Crafts quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Richard Stallman
Programming is not a science. Programming is a craft.
- Richard Stallman
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Image of Sam Raimi
Rob [Tapert], myself and Bruce Campbell sat in hundreds of drive-insnot hundreds, but tens of drive-ins, watching these movies and learning how they were made, and we started to make our own in Super 8. And that’s really how we got into horror films. After a while we learned to really like them, and the craft that went into them.
- Sam Raimi
Collection: Crafts
Image of George S. Clason
The more wisdom we know the more we may earn. Those who seek to learn more of their craft shall be richly rewarded.
- George S. Clason
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Image of Brooke Shields
I took my work seriously, but not as a craft. More as a life.
- Brooke Shields
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Image of Alfred Lansing
it's been my experience that most writers don't talk about their craft--they just do it
- Alfred Lansing
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Image of Constantin Stanislavski
Who am I? What will I be? Why am I here? Where am I going?
- Constantin Stanislavski
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Image of David O. Russell
If you just work on your craft hard, that's your only hope of doing anything worthwhile.
- David O. Russell
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Image of Robert Bringhurst
Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form.
- Robert Bringhurst
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Image of Harold Bloom
There is no method except yourself.
- Harold Bloom
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Image of Ben Nighthorse Campbell
You have to talk to the stone, and it has to talk to you.
- Ben Nighthorse Campbell
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Image of Eric Maisel
Isn't today a day to devote to craft? Isn't tomorrow? Isn't every day, routinely, until the end of time?
- Eric Maisel
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Image of David Foster
Don't be too precious about your craft... there's only 26 letters and 12 notes, and Shakespeare and Beethoven said it all better than any of us ever will
- David Foster
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Image of Lulu
Craft your love into everything
- Lulu
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Image of Stanley Elkin
The furthest out is the only place to be.
- Stanley Elkin
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Image of Alfred Bertram Guthrie
Good enough is never good enough.
- Alfred Bertram Guthrie
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Image of Wace
Muscle is good, but craft is better
- Wace
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Image of Troy Polamalu
Some of us might not understand why LeBron James is the way he is, but fortunately he found his great craft in life.
- Troy Polamalu
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Image of R.A. Dickey
The more I grew as a human being, the better I became at my craft.
- R.A. Dickey
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Image of Allen Ginsberg
First thought, best thought.
- Allen Ginsberg
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Image of Peter Guber
There are no rules, but you break them at your peril.
- Peter Guber
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Image of Sandra Tsing Loh
All autobiography is fiction.
- Sandra Tsing Loh
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Image of Tom T. Hall
Songwriting is as much a craft as a talent.
- Tom T. Hall
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Image of Joseph McGinty Nichol
Some films go so well, and some films are disappointing. It's the beauty of the craft. You get it right, and you get it wrong. You have tremendous highs, and you have tremendous lows. Hopefully, you learn from them and become better, as you go along.
- Joseph McGinty Nichol
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Image of Randall Jarrell
The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it.
- Randall Jarrell
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Image of John Keltonic
Do everything you can to learn your craft. Score student films for free, attend conferences, learn music theory - do anything and everything you can.
- John Keltonic
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Image of N. T. Rama Rao Jr.
I dont want to waste my energy in other things; instead, I would put all that in reaching the next level in a craft that I love the most.
- N. T. Rama Rao Jr.
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Image of Mary J. Miller
I want to be able to discuss craft but I also want to teach writers to trust their instincts and learn to listen to themselves above all others.
- Mary J. Miller
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Image of Guy de Maupassant
You must render: never report.
- Guy de Maupassant
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Image of Adrian Marcel
When you have somebody who takes their craft seriously, you don't have to babysit them and be there all the time.
- Adrian Marcel
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Image of Steve Martin
Always make room for the unexpected in yourself.
- Steve Martin
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Image of Patti Smith
You don't want to OD on improvisation.
- Patti Smith
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Image of Theodore Roethke
Wake the happy words.
- Theodore Roethke
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Image of Walter Mosley
When you talk about painters and you talk about painters painting masterpieces, there is no painter who painted only one painting and that was a masterpiece. You have to do a whole bunch of paintings to get to the place of mastering your craft.
- Walter Mosley
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Image of Ronald Reagan
Diplomacy, of course, is a subtle and nuanced craft, so much so that it's said that when the most wily diplomat of the nineteenth-century passed away, other diplomats asked, on reports of his death, "What do you suppose the old fox meant by that?
- Ronald Reagan
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Image of Harry Shearer
The first thing you've got to do is know your craft, and then you can do something else with it.
- Harry Shearer
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Image of Mary Oliver
A poet's interest in craft never fades, of course.
- Mary Oliver
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Image of William Stafford
A poem is a serious joke, a truth that has learned jujitsu.
- William Stafford
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Image of Paul Newman
Fill the moment and find variety.
- Paul Newman
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Image of Virginia Woolf
Life stand still here.
- Virginia Woolf
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Image of Wallace Stegner
Talent can't be taught, but it can be awakened.
- Wallace Stegner
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Image of Tom Stoppard
The hard part is getting to the top of page 1.
- Tom Stoppard
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Image of David Ogilvy
I can't stand callow amateurs who aren't sufficiently interested in the craft of advertising to assume the posture of students.
- David Ogilvy
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Image of Moliere
I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
- Moliere
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Image of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fear, Craft and Avarice Cannot rear a State.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Image of Ryan Tedder
The classic, quote/unquote, craft of songwriting still works; it still is relevant.
- Ryan Tedder
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Image of T. S. Eliot
Mediocre writers borrow; great writers steal.
- T. S. Eliot
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Image of Ralph Ellison
Every serious novel is, beyond its immediate thematic preoccupations, a discussion of the craft, a conquest of the form, a conflict with its difficulties and a pursuit of its felicities and beauty.
- Ralph Ellison
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Image of Ralph Waldo Emerson
The craft of the merchant is this bringing a thing where it abounds to where it is costly.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Image of James Frey
Most of the time, it's not the concept, but the execution of craft that counts.
- James Frey
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Image of George Herbert
Craft against craft makes no living.
- George Herbert
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