Craftperson Quotes & Sayings

If you wish to control others you must first control yourself — Miyamoto Musashi

Every artist is, first of all, a craftperson thoroughly knowledgeable about the materials, tools, and techniques of his or her particular medium and skilled in using many of them. — Freeman Patterson

She has no idea how pretty she is - or what kind of problems her beauty will cause for her at a place like Blackcliff. The wind pulls at her hair again, and I catch her scent - like fruit and sugar. — Sabaa Tahir

Statistics is, or should be, about scientific investigation and how to do it better, but many statisticians believe it is a branch of mathematics. Now I agree that the physicist, the chemist, the engineer, and the statistician can never know too much mathematics, but their objectives should be better physics, better chemistry, better engineering, and in the case of statistics, better scientific investigation. Whether in any given study this implies more or less mathematics is incidental. — George E.P. Box

I want to ask him if it's possible that a girl can be born unlovable, or does she just become that way? — Libba Bray

No amount of technical knowledge and competence is, of itself, sufficient to make a craftperson into an artist. That requires caring - passionate caring about ultimate things. — Freeman Patterson

When I wake up each morning, I praise the Lord for the gift of being alive. — Lailah Gifty Akita