Quotes About Jack Of All Trades

#1. My purist comedy friends accuse me of being a Jack of all trades and master of none.

Marcus Brigstocke

#2. 20. Lack of concentration of effort. The "jack-of-all-trades" seldom is good at any. Concentrate all of your efforts on one definite chief aim.

Napoleon Hill

#3. Jack of all trades, master of none...He'd always thought knowing many things gave him strength.
Now it made him feel vulnerable.

Rachel Caine

#4. I always liked acting in school and drama classes, but when people asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I always told them I wanted to be a singer. I didn't want to be a jack of all trades. I wanted to master one.

Eliza Doolittle

#5. I'm a Jack of all trades character actor, really.

Steffan Rhodri

#6. I'd rather be a Jack-of-all-trades than master of one. If I became an icon, where my whole life was music, I would probably have become a vegetable. I wouldn't be able to have all these talents I have today and be an interesting 'character.'

Dick Dale

#7. I think if you have ability and talent in one way, you have it in all ways. I'm not a jack of all trades; I'm a master of many. I don't feel there is anything I can't do if I want to.

Evel Knievel

#8. His tavern sign bore witness to his feats of arms. He had painted it himself, being a Jack-of-all-trades who did everything badly.

Victor Hugo

#9. I know something about everything and everything about something, a jack-of-all-trades and master of one.

Anonymous

#10. A generalizing specialist is more than just a generalist. A generalist is a jack-of-all-trades but a master of none, whereas a generalizing specialist is a jack-of-all-trades and master of a few. Big difference.

Jan Jursa

#11. I wouldn't say that I'm a jack-of-all-trades, master of none, but I wouldn't say that I'm brilliant at any.

Noel Clarke

#12. Jack of all trades or master of one? If you're a master of one, you'll soon be a master of none. Times are a changin. Be a jack of all trades. Or better, master of many!

Richie Norton

#13. I think my role, I want to have a presence both behind the scenes and in front of the camera. So I can't say on one particular thing, so I'll just name them all. I'll be the jack of all trades and hopefully decent at one of them.

Octavia Spencer

#14. The trouble is that after nine years as a Jack of all trades and Master of the Dominican Order, I have no expertise on anything except airports and exotic foods.

Timothy Radcliffe

#15. I'm kind of a jack of all trades. I have played all kinds of roles in the theater.

Jenn Lyon

#16. All trades, arts, and handiworks have gained by division of labor ... Where the different kinds of work are not distinguished and divided, where everyone is a jack-of-all-trades, there manufactures remain still in the greatest barbarism.

Immanuel Kant

#17. Here I am, a not over-good business man, a second-rate engineer. I can make poor mechanical drawings. I play the piano after a fashion. In fact, I am one of those proverbial Jack-of-all-trades who are usually failures. Why I am not, I can't tell you.

Charles M. Schwab

#18. Well, I was sort of a jack-of-all-trades in show business for a long time. I was a singer and a dancer and then I got a job as an actor.

Christopher Walken

#19. Jack of all trades, master of none, though often better than a master of one.

Adam Savage

#20. You are the most brave intrepid person I have ever known, and you have dedicated your life to helping those who are misunderstood and underrepresented.

Claire Danes

#21. Each man seeks his own interest, not the general interest. Let his own selfish interests be touched, and all concord is at an end.

Sabine Baring-Gould

#22. Life is a window of opportunity to love and enjoy.

Debasish Mridha

#23. Faith wouldn't be faith without having to trust what is unseen. That's difficult sometimes, and it's almost easier to put our trust in what is tangible. But God wants us to put one foot in front of the other and just step out on faith,

Rebecca St. James

#24. I wanted to be able to talk with people who have trade jobs and make records with them. I want to do more records with carpenters, electricians, people who specialize in even more bizarre trades that are off the beaten path.

Jack White

#25. I am merely a conduit, a kind of big hairy tool. I am just a plastic funnel connected to a Moog ...

Vangelis

#26. It don't matter as long as he can count up to 10

Sonny Liston

#27. Believers are right when they say that to understand a religion properly you need to get under its skin. But to understand it fully, you cannot stay there: you have to take a more objective view, too.

Julian Baggini

#28. A lot of artists write about the same things their whole career.

Win Butler

#29. This is the story of my life: standing on the edges of things and worrying, when I'm supposed to just walk through them.

Alexis Hall

#30. Be more gay, I beseech you!

George Orwell

#31. In the technotronic society the trend would seem to be towards the aggregation of the individual support of millions of uncoordinated citizens, easily within the reach of magnetic and attractive personalities exploiting the latest communications techniques to manipulate emotions and control reason.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

#32. Life on this earth first emerged from the sea. As the polar ice melts and sea level rises, we humans find ourselves facing the prospect that once again we may quite literally become ocean.

John Luther Adams

#33. Erotic play discloses a nameless world which is revealed by the nocturnal language of lovers. Such language is not written down. It is whispered into the ear at night in a hoarse voice. At dawn it is forgotten.

Jean Genet