Practice Your Craft Quotes

#1. If you get a chance to act in a room that somebody else has paid rent for, then you're given a free chance to practice your craft.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

#2. I feel bad for young actors who become huge stars too quickly, because you haven't had a chance to practice your craft a lot.

Topher Grace

#3. You're going to a bunch of auditions, and most of the time you're just getting denied, but just staying in there and keeping my head and being determined helped. Growing is what's challenging; you have to constantly practice your craft.

Natalie Martinez

#4. If you want to learn the craft of war, ponder over this book. The teacher is as a needle, the disciple is as thread. You must practice constantly.

Miyamoto Musashi

#5. Art stands on the shoulders of craft, which means that to get to the art, you must master the craft. If you want to write, practice writing.

Ann Patchett

#6. Loving is like any other art-craft where the masters have carefully practiced and where the novices have languished in their carelessness.

Bryant McGill

#7. To practice - write each and every day if possible - then try to attend professional writer's conferences where you can learn your craft, get to know fellow writers, and meet editors and agents.

James Dashner

#8. The people who really, actually loved us, they'd beg us to go. To fulfill our dreams. Practice our craft. And they would love us when we all came back.

Chuck Palahniuk

#9. I have always been averse to theorizing about the art or craft of biography. Like Disraeli's biographer, Lord Blake, who offers the cautionary analogy of the biographical centipede unsure of her next step because of too much cerebration, I have made it my practice to let the facts find the theory.

David Levering Lewis

#10. Artists need not meet any standards to practice their craft ... Virtually every other occupation requires some sort of license, union membership or something that says you are qualified.

Mike Svob

#11. To arrive at a place called Mastery, you must commit to daily and rigorous practice. Enjoy practising your craft for its own sake without turning your attention to your ultimate destination. Understand, once and for all, that the journey is as important as the destination.

Robin Sharma

#12. Developing your voice takes ...
time and practice.

Darynda Jones

#13. The key factor separating geniuses from the merely accomplished is not a divine spark. It's not I.Q., a generally bad predictor of success, even in realms like chess. Instead, it's deliberate practice. Top performers spend more hours (many more hours) rigorously practicing their craft.

David Brooks

#14. A man who makes a plate or a shirt or a loaf of bread or anything our great great ancestors called a work of art, has no need to try to be sincere; all he can do is practice his craft to the best of his ability. But once he starts making useless things, how can he not be sincere?

Rene Daumal

#15. In the practice of any craft, we are less concerned with the quantity of the product than with its quality, and less concerned with the product than with the artisan.

Lanza Del Vasto

#16. Practice ur craft and make it the best it can possibly be-Justin Timberlake

Justin Timberlake

#17. I've said before that every craftsman searches for what's not there to practice his craft.

Rumi

#18. I maintain that many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practice the dull craft of experimental psychology.

Oswald Spengler

#19. I describe management as arts, crafts and science. It is a practice that draws on arts, craft and science and there is a lot of craft - meaning experience - there is a certain amount of craft meaning insight, creativity and vision, and there is the use of science, technique or analysis.

Henry Mintzberg

#20. With practice the craft will come almost of itself, in spite of you and all the more easitly if you think of something besides technique.

Paul Gauguin

#21. Songwriting wasn't my gift. I think you have to cultivate a gift; you have to practice and develop craft around your gift so that you can execute it in more convenient, efficient ways.

Linda Ronstadt

#22. I've spent most of my life perfecting the craft of living history. I have no practice at living in the present.

Leila Sales

#23. Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet

Henry Mintzberg

#24. I am forever an advocate of books, both the reading of them and the writing. There is something sacred to me in that community. Because writing
and reading
is a solitary business. And it's good to know I'm not alone.

Shannon Celebi

#25. Some people may be more gifted than others, but excellence in writing, as in any art form or craft, involves discipline and practice.

James B. Stewart

#26. Stories not only give us a much needed practice on figuring out what makes people tick, they give us insight into how we tick.

Lisa Cron

#27. Once they got into the idea of seeing directly for themselves they also saw there was no limit to the amount they could say. It was a confidence building assignment too, because what they wrote, even though seemingly trivial, was nevertheless their own thing, not a mimicking of someone else's.

Robert M. Pirsig

#28. If you're any good at all, you know you can be better.

Lindsay Buckingham

#29. Talent is required, but much of writing is a matter of craft, which develops with time, attention, patience and practice, like playing an instrument or learning to dance.

Susan Wiggs

#30. Read and write with a sensitive ear. The craft of writing is very important. Practice the craft.

Henry Petroski

#31. Learn the writer's craft, write regularly, grow to love the practice for its own sake-and inspiration will either come on a particular day or it won't, but you'll have prepared the way for it.

Dennis Palumbo