Quotes About Craftsmanship

This verse uses the Hebrew word milacha to refer to work instead of the more common word avoda. Milacha is not truly translatable; it is best understood as creative work—work that produces something.

The joints of thy thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a cunning workman. Thy navel is like a round goblet, which wanteth not liquor: thy

I had a sudden memory of the waulking shed, where the women sat in two facing rows, barefooted and bare-armed in their oldest clothes, bracing themselves against the walls as they thrust with their feet against the long, sodden worm of woolen cloth, battering it into the tight, felted weave that would repel Highland mists and even light rain, keeping the wearer safe from the chill.

I enjoy production more than acting, as one is involved in many aspects of film-making.

I love all aspects of performance.

When the material written is very good then half of your work is done by the writer itself. When there's a well-defined character written, then the attempt is to be as honest to the material as possible.

If you look at most of our roster, we've got great singer/songwriters. I'm always attracted to that.

I work really hard on every character and do everything in order to make it look authentic.

When we write songs, we don't ever sit down to write an Old Dominion song. We just sit down to write the best song we possibly can.

Before I started writing for myself, I was writing country records, and they were coming out dope.

You have to constantly work on your script if it needs it. You don't accept, 'Oh, I did a draft and...' No, it's your responsibility to work on the script as much as possible and make it better and better.

A full, rich drawing style is a drawback.

I've always been a 'write first' artist: the drawings are always in service of the writing.

My aim is to create the perfect dress!

You might say that I'm the Michelangelo of the dress business.

Our dresses take a long time to make.

I'm not one of these writers who says, 'Oh yes, the next book is due out in one year and three days.' I just say, 'You're gonna get it when it's done. It's gonna be good, but you're not going to get it until it is good.'

I love design-based stuff. I dug it in 'Pleasantville' and dug it in 'Seabiscuit.'

Me personally, I think that when I take my time with something, it comes out a lot better, because I can really, really get my point across, and if I see that like, this might be a little too deep, I figure out a way to dumb it down so that everybody can understand where I'm going.

I write the best book that I can write each time.

I think if the writing comes too easily, it shows - it's usually hard to read.

You have to find the movie in the editing room, and it can't be four hours; it has to be two hours.

The rules are: The only ego is the film, and you have to serve the film.

It usually takes me a year to do a book. A year or eighteen months.