#craft

But, when the work was finished, the Craftsman kept wishing that there were someone to ponder the plan of so great a work, to love its beauty, and to wonder at its vastness. ↗

— Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

#craftsman #finished #great #kept #love

I really wasn't equipped to be a writer when I left Oxford. But then I set out to learn. I've always had the highest regard for the craft. I've always felt it was work. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#craft #equipped #felt #had #highest

I wanted to be the best actor possible. I worked very hard at the craft of it. ↗

— Jack Nicholson

#best #craft #hard #i #possible

You know it's very difficult to be an actor, and to have people depending on you to say the right line, at the right time, and to not be able to hear your cues! I can't tell you how many times I would've had to have said What? if I didn't have my hearing aids. So my hearing aids are a life saver, and they allow me to practice my craft. ↗

— Leslie Nielsen

#actor #aids #allow #craft #cues

Most people won't realize that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else. ↗

— Katherine Anne Porter

#apprenticeship #craft #else #like #most

There is no reason for me to show my collection in New York, because it's not about craft and technique there. ↗

— Zac Posen

#because #collection #craft #me #new

The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#artists #called #craft #does #gods

It does not make sense that we are allowing known potential weapons, not unlike those the 9-11 hijackers used to overcome the crews of four airplanes, to be taken aboard passenger aircraft. ↗

— Dave Reichert

#aircraft #allowing #crews #does #four

My father was a CPA. He worked hard in the aircraft industry, and would come home more and more infrequently. He was about to leave my mother, which he did when I was 15. ↗

— Jeremy Irons

#aircraft #come #did #father #hard

My father was a very good craftsman. He made furniture, he made silverware and he had an incredible gift in terms of how you can make something yourself. ↗

— Jonathan Ive

#father #furniture #gift #good #had