Tradecraft Quotes & Sayings

Expect nothing and fear nothing, here or anywhere. That's your first lesson. — Susan Cooper

The piano is just a different animal. It's expensive, it's big, it's heavy, and it doesn't fit in the mix easily. Everyone grew up with a piano in their living room, so rocking out on the piano was accessible - it wasn't an upper-class thing. Now pianos have become very much a piece of furniture. — Ben Folds

I had a very blessed journey with the upbringing I had. When you're working on sets as a stuntman, you have a firsthand account of the dynamics between actors and directors, because you're working hand in hand with them. You're not sitting outside the process watching. You become part of the process. You also see your tradecraft and see how movies are made. — Ric Roman Waugh

Good tradecraft keeps espionage routine and boring. — Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius

The artist must continue to look for a new reference. Every day, every performance, every take. — Bruce Glover

I'd laboured over it a long while, and labour brings a thing near the heart's core. — Mary Webb

I learned the technology and tradecraft of electronic security in self defense, with a lot of expert help. — Barton Gellman

Where we focus our energy is where we will get the results. — Tori Amos

What my daughter does is my own responsibility, the way she represents herself. — Mark Oliver

For programming is a job where Lovecraft meets tradecraft, all the time. — Charles Stross

I was surprised I won the award because I've always been a very aggressive player and I earn my share of fouls on the court. I play rough, and because I'm an older player, of course I use tricks on the younger players. — Sue Wicks

Havens turned again.
Someone else passed between the trucks.
That someone walked with less purpose than the other workers near the stalls. To Havens this meant a surveillance asset was on him and it probably was not an assassination attempt. It eased him back into relative comfort for just a moment or two more. — J.T. Patten

There will never be any more perfection than there is now. — Walt Whitman

One is that we stand - my two confreres and I - in some degree as representatives of a great number of fellow workers over the entire world, who are enthusiastically active in this field of ours. — Haldan Keffer Hartline