skillful work Quotes

The workmanship was better than the subject matter.

You have to work hard AND well. There are a lot of people who work hard but not well.

Have you beheld a man skillful in his work? Before kings is where he will station himself; he will not station himself before commonplace men.

A man and his tools make a man and his trade.

It is working within limits that the craftsman reveals himself.

The glory of a workman, still more of a master workman, that he does his work well, ought to be his most precious possession; like the honor of a soldier, dearer to him than life.

Music is art, and making watches is art, too.

If a carpenter makes a chair that's comfortable for the person who's going to sit in it, he's done his job. If a train engineer gets a train in on time, he's going to make someone happy who's waiting at the station. And if an artist draws the kind of a picture that people are going to enjoy looking at, or he makes a visual story which people are going to enjoy reading, he's done his job.

To do a train wreck and make it look real on screen is tremendously skilful.

Without craft, art remains private. Without art, craft is merely hackwork.

I do not think that shoemaker a good workman that makes a great shoe for a little foot.

Even the good artisans fell into the same error as the poets; because they were good workmen they thought that they also knew all sorts of high matters, and this defect in them overshadowed their wisdom.

Craftsmanship isn't like water in an earthen pot, to be taken out by the dipperful until it's empty. No, the more drawn out the more remains.