#workman

It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled. ↗

— John Ruskin

#architecture #beautiful #been #dead #ever

We must never undervalue any person. The workman loves not that his work should be despised in his presence. Now God is present everywhere, and every person is His work. ↗

— Saint Francis de Sales

#despised #every #everywhere #god #his

The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence. ↗

— Adam Smith

#customers #discipline #effectual #employment #exercised

Hardly a competent workman can be found who does not devote a considerable amount of time to studying just how slowly he can work and still convince his employer that he is going at a good pace. ↗

— Frederick W. Taylor

#competent #considerable #convince #devote #does

There's no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily. ↗

— Geoffrey Chaucer

#hastily #may #well #whatsoever #work

Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to desire. This is sufficient. The skillful artist will not alter his measures for the sake of a stupid workman. ↗

— Mencius

#artist #bids #desire #forbids #him

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince. ↗

— Plato

#deceive #earth #equal #god #however

There are two methods for the literary study of any book - the first being the study of its thought and emotion; the second only that of its workmanship. A student of literature should study some of the Bible from both points of view. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#being #bible #book #both #emotion

If these Mount Everests of the financial world are going to labor and bring forth still more pictures with people being blown to bits with bazookas and automatic assault rifles with no gory detail left unexploited, if they are going to encourage anxious, ambitious actors, directors, writers and producers to continue their assault on the English language by reducing the vocabularies of their characters to half a dozen words, with one colorful but overused Anglo-Saxon verb and one unbeautiful Anglo-Saxon noun covering just about every situation, then I would like to suggest that they stop and think about this: making millions is not the whole ball game, fellows. Pride of workmanship is worth more. Artistry is worth more. ↗

— Gregory Peck

#films #motion-pictures #movies #workmanship #movies

Common sense is in medicine the master workman. ↗

— Peter Latham

#common sense #master #medicine #sense #workman