Workmanlike Quotes

#1. Certainly no one on-site asked for my opinion, but I have always felt there should be no leftovers. It's untidy, and it shows a lack of a real workmanlike spirit.

Jeff Lindsay

#2. You must be classic. Put yourselves before the model in a workmanlike spirit.

Andre Lhote

#3. I think you're wonderful too, Hal! Stephan said, in a workmanlike approximation of Ophelia's breathless, admiring tones. The crew laughed even harder.
Lydia snorted through her nose.

John Flanagan

#4. Paul McCartney and John Lennon would often write a song a day, so I have the same workmanlike philosophy.

Jason Mraz

#5. Be a fearless cook! Try out new ideas and new recipes, but always buy the freshest and finest ingredients, whatever they may be. Furnish your kitchen with the most solid and workmanlike equipment you can find. Keep your knives ever sharp and - toujours bon appetit!

Julia Child

#6. At the root of many a woman's failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives.

Robert Farrar Capon

#7. I keep trying, and manage some workmanlike stuff that doesn't require inspiration, and then I check my phone, check my email, go on Facebook. I read other people's posts, make jaunty comments, flitter away the time, profane the time.

Deborah Meyler

#8. Level 5 leaders display a workmanlike diligence - more plow horse than show horse.

James C. Collins

#9. I'm a workmanlike writer. I show up every day and treat it like a job. The old rule that writing is like any other job, the first rule is that you must show up. I'm at the keyboard from 9 to 4 every day.

Justin Cronin

#10. My movies are unadorned, they're not particularly fancy, I think they're kind of workmanlike in some ways, focusing on the writing and the acting.

Ben Affleck

#11. Painting, like any art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling of material, but the accuracy of a tone and the fictitious combination of effects depend entirely on the choice made by the artist.

Paul Cezanne

#12. For things to be right on the outside, they first have to be right on the inside.

Bohdi Sanders

#13. You will always feel a little discomfort when you are installing a new habit.

Robin S. Sharma

#14. I'm a master of heels. I'm used to them. I'm tiny, so I wear them all the time. Apart from to the beach. That would be slightly psycho. I'm over the top, but not that much yet.

Josephine De La Baume

#15. So this little boy was
I became her confidant a little too early, I think. It didn't seem to warp me exactly, but it left me with a little too much knowledge at an early age. [p. 143]

Mary Catherine Bateson

#16. If we don't confront those things that are wrong, it gets worse.

Sunday Adelaja

#17. We all have a past. We all have a future. But all we really have is right now. You can change your destiny in one moment, if only you refuse to do what you once did.

Bonnie Hearn Hill

#18. At twenty-one or twenty-two so many things appear solid and permanent and terrible which forty sees are nothing but disappearing miasma. Forty can't tell twenty about this; that's the pity of it! Twenty can find out only by getting to be forty.

Booth Tarkington

#19. Thus, the photons which constitute a ray of light behave like intelligent human beings: out of all possible curves they always select the one which will take them most quickly to their goal.

Max Planck

#20. I represent the public, not public opinion.

Theodore Roosevelt

#21. It was only when I found myself writing things I didn't realise I knew that I said, 'I'm a writer now.'

Don DeLillo

#22. It's often the most frightened of folk who do the greatest deeds.

Richard A. Knaak

#23. Evil will rule until good men or women choose to act.

Ruta Sepetys