Hone Your Craft Quotes

#1. What you get at the BMI Workshop is the rarest commodity in New York City: Friendly criticism; people who genuinely root for you; and a chance to rewrite your work, try it again, and hone your craft.

Maury Yeston

#2. You have to hone your craft, but you also have to be born with a certain amount of talent, and I never took the talent for granted - I've always worked really hard to be as good as I could be.

Diane Warren

#3. You spend most of your life working and trying to hone your craft, working on your chops, working on your writing, and you don't really think about accolades. Then you get a bit older and they start coming your way. It's a nice pat on the back.

Geddy Lee

#4. The best part of being on a television series for all those years is that you really get to hone your craft.

Steve Kanaly

#5. You just want to hone your craft, whatever it may be.

Christopher Cross

#6. When you are young, hone your craft and write shorter pieces instead of novels, because it's really hard to finish a novel.

Laini Taylor

#7. The only way to learn and hone your craft is by working hard and writing regularly.

Darren Shan

#8. The risk of sudden death is miniscule, overstating this risk is not going to stop them from taking the drug.

Peter Jennings

#9. I don't think people really understood what I did. And you know, in my book, 'A Helluva High Note' deals with my back story, that I was a songwriter, that I spent years trying to hone my craft and being rejected and then finally becoming a successful songwriter, record executive and publisher.

Kara DioGuardi

#10. Just give me a good role that allows me to hone my craft, and I am a pretty happy camper.

Jimmy Smits

#11. I really believe in myself. I'm the hardest worker I know, and one of the best songwriters. There's a craft to it, and it takes a long time to hone it, and I work really hard at it.

Arthur Godfrey

#12. Do not leave your reputation to chance or gossip; it is your life's artwork, and you must craft it, hone it, and display it with the care of an artist.

Robert Greene

#13. It is impossible for us not to speak about what we have seen and heard.

Saint Peter

#14. Morality can provide at most only a severely limited and insufficient answer to the question of how a person should live.

Harry G. Frankfurt

#15. Time doesn't heal, it just gives you other things to think about.

Andrew Taylor

#16. What I want you to do is think long and hard about this. You made us to kill and conquer, and we are doing it better than you ever anticipated. Far better than you could ever do yourselves. You are no match for us. Do not make us your enemy. Confirm.

Dan Wells

#17. Writers are born, not made. We can hone the craft. We need to try to encourage someone and make a dialogue, suggesting ways to do something differently or how to improve.

Alan Zweibel

#18. I've always been one to do the work and just hone my craft.

Malcolm McDowell

#19. I want to go make an original movie. It's all very personal, but I want to define myself a little bit more as a filmmaker and hone my craft.

Colin Trevorrow

#20. And so Ethan and I orbit each other. Get on with things. Learn the art of pretending. Hone our craft to lie to others as skillfully as we lie to ourselves.

Leisa Rayven

#21. Immortality is not as much of a gift as mortals would believe. It can breed monsters that even you would be sick to learn about. Imagine the sadists you've encountered - and then imagine them with millennia to hone their craft and warped desires.

Sarah J. Maas

#22. They've got great parents; I'm just trying to be the fun uncle.

Sarah Silverman

#23. His turn-out was emphatically excellent, and he diffused waves of personality, strong, chilling gusts of icy air, a protective element that threatened to freeze into rigidity all who came through the door, before they could approach him nearer.

Anthony Powell

#24. I think the time in between albums, as much as it was not anticipated, it was much-needed, and very helpful, very useful. I've done nothing but hone my craft, and get better, and learn, and gather information in the process. So I'm grateful for it in retrospect.

Joe Budden