Quotes About Practicing Your Craft

#1. Cooking is a craft, I like to think, and a good cook is a craftsman - not an artist. There's nothing wrong with that: the great cathedrals of Europe were built by craftsmen - though not designed by them. Practicing your craft in expert fashion is noble, honorable and satisfying.

Anthony Bourdain

#2. Practicing your craft in expert fashion is noble, honorable and satisfying. And I'll generally take a standup mercenary who takes pride in his professionalism over an artist any day.

Anthony Bourdain

#3. If beauty is a pillow,
You're a transparent
Pillowcase.

James Josue

#4. I do admit that I've never been one to fit in easily to any given pattern. It's not my choice. It's just the way I am. So if the characters I wind up playing are all a bit different, it must be because that's the way I like it. Anna Kendrick is different, and she's going to stay that way.

Anna Kendrick

#5. 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

#6. There comes a time
to join the side
you're on.

Midge Decter

#7. I think that New York is the city of all cities. There is so much diversity there. I also like that when I go there, I can catch a play or musical and see some of the most talented people practicing their craft.

Kevin Johnson

#8. If you're writing anything decent, it's in you, it's your spirit coming out. If it's not an expression of how a person genuinely feels, then it's not a good song done with any conviction.

Alex Chilton

#9. The big companies are like steel and activists are like heat. Activists soften the steel, and then I can bend it into pretty grillwork and make reforms.

Temple Grandin

#10. The angels and the devils are definitely within us, not within the machines we use.

Michael Dertouzos

#11. My family's from Eastern Europe.

David Sax

#12. The most important advice I can offer is that writing is a craft that you can learn by practicing. If you keep writing, you will improve.

Lauren Tarshis

#13. Politicon should be applauded for recognizing the increasing impact of technology, not only on American social and economic systems but on the very structure of our system of politics.

John McAfee

#14. If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent.

Henry A. Kissinger

#15. Never forget that you are practicing a craft with certain principles.

William Zinsser

#16. Out of all the addictions in the world, Attention is slowly but surely becoming one of the most dangerous.

Saahil Prem

#17. Lost means forever, it's gone. But misplaced ... that means it's still around, somewhere.

Sarah Dessen

#18. Millions of fathers in rain
Millions of mothers in pain
Millions of brothers in woe
Millions of sisters nowhere to go
Millions of daughters walk in the mud
Millions of children wash in the flood
A million girls vomit and groan
Millions of families hopeless alone

Allen Ginsberg

#19. The natural world is the only one we have. To try to not see the natural world - to put on blinders and avoid seeing it - would for me seem like a form of madness. I'm also interested in the way landscape shapes individuals and populations, and from that, cultures.

Rick Bass

#20. The more Israel sinks into the West Bank, the more it is delegitimized and isolated, the more the world focuses on Israel's colonialism rather than Iran's nuclear enrichment, the more people call for a single democratic state in all of historic Palestine.

Thomas Friedman

#21. Everyone dies eventually. I think it's better to die clean.

Erika Johansen