Quotes About Craftsmanship

The whole joy of writing comes from the opportunity to go over it and make it good, one way or another.

Quality, far beyond that required by the end user, is a means to higher productivity.

Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal.

Typing on an actual typewriter on paper is only a softer version of chiseling words into stone.

similar feat. A single deft stroke

When you're uncomfortable with the words you're using, it becomes obvious to your listeners. When they recognize your discomfort, their defenses are likely to go up making the continuation of the conversation or sales process more challenging than when you are comfortable with what you're saying. This is where dedication to your craft becomes very important.

Chief Bo as the center, dressed, in 2005, in bright red feathers, with beadwork that should be in a museum and probably will be someday

Ye faire consumer: know your brewer. Drink the work of people you personally relate to and have a reason to trust and want to support. Why not? You do become what you drink.

Todo eso que está inútilmente añadido a la pura necesidad, es arte.

The songs don't spring whole into existence; they are built.

These pillars, known as Boaz, the pillar of strength, and Jachin, the pillar of wisdom, are normally found side by side in any masonic temple where they are the two basic symbols of craftmasonry.

in matches. He pioneered the matted slide and the frenched borders on 1911s. Now, the look of an honest-to-goodness

Making things . . . And making things work . . . That's where satisfaction is in this life.

The whirligig featured a drummer, a trumpet player, a clarinetist, and a man with a trombone. It was a leap beyond the spouting whale, with more figures, a six-bladed propeller, and a much more complex system of rods and pivots that made the instruments dip and rise as if the musicians were marching.

The easy, conversational tone of good writing comes only on the eighth rewrite.

The people most likely to grasp that wealth can be created are the ones who are good at making things, the craftsmen. Their hand-made objects become store-bought ones. But with the rise of industrialization there are fewer and fewer craftsmen. One of the biggest remaining groups is computer programmers.

The people most likely to grasp that wealth can be created are the ones who are good at making things, the craftsmen. Their hand-made objects become store-bought ones.

hackers are makers rather than scientists, the right place to look for metaphors is not in the sciences, but among other kinds of makers. What else can painting teach us about hacking?

the materials for the nest must be collected and woven strand by strand . . . . Such a birdy method may at first seem absurd to the forward-thinking nest maker, but soon it will be found that the pleasures of the project are not derived from efficiency.

Calling fishing a hobby is like calling brain surgery a job.

It's actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.

Iba a tardar tanto en reducirla que al fin acabaría por enamorarse de su obra.

To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

Glass is the most magical of all materials. It transmits light in a special way.