A Good Workman Quotes

#1. No amount of pay ever made a good soldier, a good teacher, a good artist, or a good workman.

John Ruskin

#2. There is no pleasure subtler than the sensation of being a good workman; and in work there is the sense of consanguinity-unconscious as a rule but sometimes conscious.

Marianne Moore

#3. When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman.

Jean De La Bruyere

#4. I do not think that shoemaker a good workman that makes a great shoe for a little foot.

Plutarch

#5. What would you rather?" yelled Sybil from the distant sandpit. "Know everything or know nothing?"
"Know nothing," I yelled back. "Then you have the fun of finding everything out.

Martin Amis

#6. I've always been such a fan of Habitat for Humanity and the work that they do.

Lea Michele

#7. Rock-a-bye Baby
In the tree top
When the wind blows
The cradle will rock.
When the bough breaks
The cradle will fall
And Mama will catch you
Cradle and all!

Kristen McKee

#8. Hardly a competent workman can be found who does not devote a considerable amount of time to studying just how slowly he can work and still convince his employer that he is going at a good pace.

Frederick W. Taylor

#9. No-one is going to die for you, so don't let anyone to tell you how to live while you are alive.

Bryant McGill

#10. In 1907, or so it has sometimes been written, Albert Einstein saw a workman fall off a roof and began to think about gravity. Alas, like many good stories this one appears to be apocryphal. According to Einstein himself, he was simply sitting in a chair when the problem of gravity occurred to him.

Bill Bryson

#11. If you take the time to listen to an upset child's story with empathy, and guide the child toward figuring out the root of the problem, then the result is often that the child not only calms down, but also in the future is less likely to get so upset.

Carolyn Hax

#12. The beauty of things was born before eyes and sufficient to itself; the heartbreaking beauty
Will remain when there is no heart to break for it.

Robinson Jeffers

#13. Men are more important than tools. If you don't believe so, put a good tool into the hands of a poor workman.

John Joseph Bernet

#14. There's a light somewhere.
It may not be much light but
it beats the darkness.

Charles Bukowski

#15. Doubt springs from the mind; faith is the daughter of the soul.

Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

#16. All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.

Henry David Thoreau

#17. The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.

Oscar Wilde

#18. It's not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix.

David Byrne

#19. It wasn't even a fight, really. We didn't shout. We barely even argued, but a snake of tension quietly slithered into our lives.

Gayle Forman

#20. Abled does not mean enabled.
Disabled does not mean less abled.

Khang Kijarro Nguyen

#21. I don't finish a lot of the books I read. I get enormous pleasure from reading half f them, two-thirds of them, even incredibly good books. But I don't feel it's my duty to finish them. I read the last few pages and find out what happens at the end.

Jackie French

#22. You must fight social media fire with social media water.

Jay Baer

#23. Keep encouraging yourself that you are good enough as a workman of God created for every good work one earth prepared for you before the world begun.

Israelmore Ayivor

#24. If you dream big, you achieve big.If you dream small, you achieve small. Dreams make the difference.

Koyel Mitra