Good Tradesmen Quotes & Sayings

Your own private journal should record the way you face up to challenges that beset you. Do not suppose life changes so much that your experiences will not be interesting to your posterity. Experiences of work, relations with people, and an awareness of the rightness and wrongness of actions will always be relevant. — Spencer W. Kimball

Faith in the Lord begins in fear, and comes to an end in spiritual courage. — George Hammond

Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything. — John Kenneth Galbraith

But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflection on human nature? — James Madison

We are moved by self-interest, even when we seek to do good to others. — Bangambiki Habyarimana

Because it is dangerous to ignore the existence of the irrational. The more cultivated a person is, the more intelligent, the more repressed, then the more he needs some method of channeling the primitive impulses he's worked so hard to subdue. — Donna Tartt

The sneaking arts of underling tradesmen are thus erected into political maxims for the conduct of a great empire; for it is the most underling tradesmen only who make it a rule to employ chiefly their own customers. A great trader purchases his good always where they are cheapest and best, without regard to any little interest of this kind. — Adam Smith

You know, when you choose to make your living as an actor, it's all fine and good to look at it as some kind of artistic endeavor. At its best, it is that. But the fact is, most of the actors out there don't earn $3 million a picture and can't afford to take two years off between films and look for the right thing. Most of us are tradesmen. — James Spader

Hey, Christian rock, if you want to be good, stop copying U2. U2 already did it. You know what I mean? There's a lot of U2-esque Christian rock. — Billy Corgan

Time was like that, though - racing forward when she wanted it to slow down, then crawling to a stop when she could least bear it. — Aprilynne Pike

An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment. — Wendell Berry

Maybe you don't need to understand her; maybe you just need to want to. — Jeannine Allison