Carpenter Quotes

• By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Jesus Christ, Made, Mankind

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• Every moment I shape my destiny with a chisel - I am the carpenter of my own soul.

  Rumi

  Destiny, Soul, Shapes

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• Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.

  William Faulkner

  Writing, Epic, Study

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• In a world where carpenters get resurrected, everything is possible.

  Eleanor of Aquitaine

  World

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• I'd rather spend half an hour in the company of a top carpenter, than three hours in the company of an average brain surgeon

  Winston Churchill

  Average, Brain, Three

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• It does not matter whether you paint, sculpt, or make shoes, whether you are a gardener, a farmer, a fisherman, a carpenter-it does not matter. What matters is, are you putting your very soul into what you are creating? Then your creative products have something of the quality of divine.

  Rajneesh

  What Matters, Shoes, Creating

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• Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one.

  Sam Rayburn

  Barns, Jackasses, Carpentry

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• The house praises the carpenter.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  House, Achievement, Praise

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1976). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume XII: 1835-1862”, p.283, Harvard University Press

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• Jesus came into this world not as a philosopher or a general but as a carpenter. All work matters to God.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, World, Matter

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• A carpenter is known by his chips.

  Jonathan Swift

  Wise, Wisdom, Identity

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Sheridan, John Nichols (1801). “Poems, Polite convesation, etc”, p.344

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• I like making things. I have a wood shop at home. I am a terrible carpenter but I love doing it.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Home, Woods, Terrible

  "PJ O'Rourke - the rightwinger it's OK for lefties to like". Interview with Paul Harris, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2010.

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• That is the way a great master carpenter feels, or an architect or composer or anyone who creates anything - people want to be appreciated for what they have done.

  David Amram

  People, Done, Want

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• A young apprentice applied to a master carpenter for a job. The older man asked him, "Do you know your trade?" "Yes, sir!" the young man replied proudly. "Have you ever made a mistake?" the older man inquired. "No, sir!" the young man answered, feeling certain he would get the job. "Then there's no way I'm going to hire you," said the master carpenter, "because when you make one, you won't know how to fix it.

  Fred Rogers

  Jobs, Mistake, Men

  Fred Rogers (2006). “Wisdom from the World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember”, p.59, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• I come from an ordinary family - my dad is a carpenter, a roof-maker - and we've always loved racing together.

  Sebastian Vettel

  Dad, Racing, Together

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The difference between the novice and the master is simply that the novice has not learnt, yet, how to do things in such a way that he can afford to make small mistakes. The master knows that the sequence of his actions will always allow him to cover his mistakes a little further down the line. It is this simple but essential knowledge which gives the work of a master carpenter its wonderful, smooth, relaxed, and almost unconcerned simplicity.

  Christopher Alexander

  Mistake, Simple, Differences

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• Certain remakes are great. Carpenter's The Thing is better than the original.

  Alex Winter

  Certain, Remakes, Originals

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• I think I have more in common with a carpenter than you might think. We're putting things together.

  Dave Van Ronk

  Thinking, Together, Might

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• When you're a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you're not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You'll know it's there, so you're going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back.

  Steve Jobs

  Beautiful, Wall, Best Job

  "Steve Jobs quotes: the man in his own words", www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2011.

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• Fourthly, the way of the artisan. The way of the carpenter is to become proficient in the use of his tools, first to lay his plans with true measure and then perform his work according to plan. Thus he passes through life.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  War, Tools, Use

  Miyamoto Musashi, Victor Harris (2007). “A Book of Five Rings: With the Unfettered Mind”

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• I do think a carpenter needs a good hammer to bang in the nail.

  Oliver Reed

  Thinking, Bangs, Nails

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• Fit the parts together, one into the other, and build your figure like a carpenter builds a house. Everything must be constructed, composed of parts that make a whole.

  Henri Matisse

  House, Together, Fit

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• I insist that the object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Men, Objects, True Education

  W. E. B. Du Bois (2014). “The Problem of the Color Line at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: The Essential Early Essays”, p.222, Oxford University Press

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• You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn't need to have muscles.

  Agnes Varda

  Strong, Directors, Needs

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

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• The carpenter is not the best who makes more chips than all the rest.

  Arthur Guiterman

  Chips, Ability, Carpentry

  Arthur Guiterman (1924). “A Poet's Proverbs: Being Mirthful, Sober, and Fanciful Epigrams on the Universe, with Certain Old Irish Proverbs, All in Rhymed Complets”, New York, E.P. Dutton [1924]

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• An axe at home saves hiring a carpenter.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Home, Hiring

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