Quotes About Workmanship

Whether it's digital or physical, a pencil or a pen: line work. Humans are making things. And out of that comes the entire designed world we live within.

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.

And if you talk to the workmen themselves, you will soon learn that the rule in such factories is—never to do your best. "Shoddy pay—shoddy work!" this is the advice which the working man receives from his comrades upon entering such a factory.

We are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. Ephesians 2:10

We are being called today to come beyond the realm of blessing, into becoming a finished product of "His workmanship," that the Christ within may become manifest and be revealed as His witness in the earth, with substance and power.

So much of my background is about making: physically doing it myself.

Building is just skilled labor, I suppose. It's a lot of work. I don't mind other people building them, but the way things go together and are made is interesting to me; I like that a lot.

these were days when people still made things and used machines, instead of the opposite).

There are better and worse ditch diggers and garbage collectors. People who work in industry know that no matter how apparently mindless a job is, the job can still be done better or worse, with significant economic consequences.

Must the soul's armour be of God's make? Be exhorted then to look narrowly whether the armour ye wear be the workmanship of God or no. There is abundance of false ware put off now-a-days; little good armour worn by the multitude of professors

Hephaestus glowered up at us. "I didn't make you, did I?" Uh," Annabeth said, "no, sir." Good," the god grumbled. "Shoddy workmanship.

A beautiful and chaste woman is the perfect workmanship of God, and the true glory of angels, the rare miracle of earth, and the sole wonder of the world.

I enjoyed carpentry, and it was very good to me for 12 years.

There never was a good knife made of bad steel.

Probably the TV show I've watched the most is 'How It's Made' on the History Channel. I could watch 24 hours of 'How It's Made' and never get bored. Or 'Dirty Jobs' - that's even better!

A builder is like a little god - somebody who does things, doesn't just draw things.

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

Hephaestus glowered up at us. "I didn't make you, did I?" Uh," Annabeth said, "no, sir." Good," the god grumbled. "Shoddy workmanship.

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works.

Nothing should be made by man's labour which is not worth making, or which must be made by labour degrading to the makers.

One lesson of the Luddite rebellion specifically, and the Industrial Revolution generally, is that maintaining the prosperity of those closed communities—their pride in workmanship as well as their economic well-being—can only be paid for by those outside the communities: by society at large.

Dust as we are, the immortal spirit growsLike harmony in music; there is a darkInscrutable workmanship that reconcilesDiscordant elements, makes them cling togetherIn one society.

Workmanship is the application of technique to making, by the exercise of care, judgment, and dexterity.

I'm a craftsman. I'm an actor.