Quotes about Craftsmanship
The crafts-person is only thinking about building his work with love... when you care about your work you stand out in a world where most don't care. Caring leads to success.
- Jon Gordon
In the elder days of art Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part, For the gods see everywhere
- LM Montgomery
Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
- Ernest Hemingway
For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle.
- Ernest Hemingway
Since I had started to break down all my writing and get rid of all facility and try to make instead of describe, writing had been wonderful to do.
- Ernest Hemingway
You know you're writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket.
- Ernest Hemingway
I don't have to be proud of it. I only have to do it well. — Thomas Hudson
- Ernest Hemingway
How good a book is should be judged by the man who writes it by the excellence of the material that he eliminates.
- Ernest Hemingway
The artist in me cries out for design.
- Robert Frost
If a man love the labour of any trade apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
It's not enough for the phrases to be good; what you make with them ought to be good too.
- Aldous Huxley