Quotes About Craftsmanship

Presently we pass to some other object which rounds itself into a whole as did the first; for example, a well-laid garden; and nothing seems worth doing but the laying-out of gardens.

Come, see the north-wind's masonry, Out of an unseen quarry evermore Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer Curves his white bastions with projected roof Round every windward stake, or tree, or door. Speeding, the myriad-handed, his wild work So fanciful, so savage, naught cares he For number or proportion.

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hardbeaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

A day is a more magnificent cloth than any muslin, the mechanism that makes it is infinitely cunninger, and you shall not conceal the sleezy, fraudulent, rotten hours you have slipped into the piece, nor fear that any honest thread, or straighter ste.

Such was the quality of goldsmithery that a Dutch captain would write: "The thread and texture of their hatbands and chaining is so fine that … our ablest European artists would find it difficult to imitate them.

We see the Snowflake design for this book.

Practice makes perfect, but nobody ever complains about practice with beer.

As I see it, if you work more hours than somebody else, during those hours you learn more about your craft. That can make you more efficient, more able, even happier. Hard work is like compounded interest in the bank. The rewards build faster.

As I see it, if you work more hours than somebody else, during those hours you learn more about your craft. That can make you more efficient, more able, even happier. Hard work is like compounded interest in the bank. The rewards build faster. The same is true in your life outside of your job.

I love romantic comedies. I have a deep respect for them. I think they're really difficult to write and write well.

The fuzz stick described in many woodcraft manuals does work, but it is slow and awkward to carve. Any

El verdadero poeta no se encuentra nunca "inspirado": está precisamente por encima de ese más y de ese menos, iguales a sus ojos, que son la técnica y la inspiración; iguales porque domina ambas a la perfección. El verdadero inspirado nunca está inspirado: lo está siempre; no busca la inspiración ni se irrita contra técnica alguna.»

The German word for tatting is Schiffchenarbeit meaning 'the work of the little boat

I number my drafts, and by the time a book is done, I'll have 75 or 80 drafts of some sections.

I love making cakes, and I'm good at it.

I'll say that, Bill Camp, from 'The Night Of,' is one of our great actors.

I consider what I write to be literature. I choose the words carefully.

I believe if a sentence is to retain its strength over time, it needs to be carefully made.

Comedy has to be built carefully.

By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.

My mother was a seamstress, my father an itinerant carpenter.

My respect for animation has gone way up. It's a truckload of work. I have to sit with my animators the same way I'd sit with my actors and cast them.

My center is not really my singing so much as my guitar playing.