Quotes About Craftsmanship

I'm finishing building a house and setting up a shop to build custom electronical musical instruments.

I only know how to write musicals.

Many musicals you can take and throw in the garbage can because no one took the time to write a song you can care about.

My generation, we came along, we had to really know our craft.

Every stage of filmmaking's important while you're doing it, so I spend most of my time figuring out how to tell the story. I have all these stories and ideas, but it's how to tell the story.

I enjoy making music and take my time to do everything until it is 'perfect.'

I can say, with a little arrogance, that I could be an actor, a cameraman, a writer, but composers are the most mysterious people.

I like the mystery of seeing someone like Mickey Rourke do his thing. I don't know how he does it, but I'm glad he does it.

I do think a carpenter needs a good hammer to bang in the nail.

In close-nailed furniture, if the nails used are identical they have been manufactured industrially, which implies a date after 1850.

Food is national security. Food is craft. Food is everything, when you think about it.

A craftsman who turned hunter to aid his people is always welcome at a warrior's campfire. Craftsmen are meticulous and methodical.

fixed atop a sturdy handle of polished hickory.

A weapon is a tool, and if it is beautiful, then it is beautiful because it is useful. A sword that could not fulfill its function would be ugly to my eyes no matter how fair its shape, not even if it were adorned with the finest jewels and the most intricate engraving.

Do elves use horn bows as well? You're so strong, a wood bow would shatter if it was made heavy enough for you." "We sing our bows from trees that do not grow." And then she walked away.

But I remember when I read The Way of Kings, there were two things that struck me, like from a technical standpoint—it felt like you tackled a fantasy world almost as if you were writing science fiction.

Art is not difficult because it wishes to be difficult," he said, "but because it wishes to be art.

All that can be cherished from this world, all that makes life worth living is that which is mined from its bowels through your own toil, fashioned from its clay by your own craft, fired in the kiln of your heart. Oh, how precious, how delightful a feast, the life that has been forged by its own master!

three fingers hold the pen, but the whole body works.

Eski bir atasözünün dediÄŸi gibi, tüy kalemi üç parmak tutar, ama tüm beden çal???r.

But even this writer writes in the hope, not all that secret, that his book itself will create, and in great quantity, many new exemplars of this reader, desired and pursued with such craftsmanlike precision, and postulated, encouraged, by his text.

The oldest crude stone tools came more than three million years ago, larger, well-crafted (bifacial) hand axes and cleavers followed only about 1.5 million years ago, wooden stone-tipped spears appear to be about half a million years old, and only about 25,000 years ago did the Upper Paleolithic hunters master the artisanal production of an array of composite tools, including adzes, axes, harpoons, needles, and saws, and accompanying pottery.

When I realized I was going to have to become a killer, the memory of the torture museum rose before me like a muse. I've always been good with my hands.

He was not his father, and this was not his work; but he was the master, and this was his masterpiece.