Only by establishing military supremacy were the European and North American colonizers able to eliminate the crafts and industries of Third World peoples, control their markets, extort tribute, undermine their cultures, destroy their villages, steal their lands and natural resources, enslave their labor, and accumulate vast wealth.
To make your unknown known - that's the important thing.
In this art form, in any art form, generalities are useless.
[Using humor to explore serious issues] disarms people. It's a way in. It's gentle, but at the same time it's subversive, and I like that duality.
Never forget that you are practicing a craft with certain principles.
We may not know who is craft beer but we sure as hell will know what is craft beer by who isn't.
Nobody knows anything.
. . . don't rewrite unless you know what you're trying to do.
Songwriting is kind of like a craft. It's not something that just comes in a dream. You've got to work at it
We are a commercial people. We cannot boast of our arts, our crafts, our cultivation; our boast is in the wealth we produce. As a consequence business success is sanctified, and, practically, any methods which achieve it are justified by a larger and larger class.
Translation is a disturbing craft because there is precious little certainty about what we are doing, which makes it so difficult in this age of fervent belief and ideology, this age or greed and screed.
Sometimes educators suffer from the "I already do that" syndrome. In those cases, we feel inadequate if we admit we have a distance to go as learners of our craft.
I would go to the craft services table and have Oreos or whatever, and a grown woman would come up to me and look at what I was eating and sigh and go, "I remember the days when I could eat like that. " And I never knew what to say that, because I was 9.
The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.
Sit down every day and DO IT. Writing is a self-taught craft; the more you work at it, the more skilled you become. And when you're not writing, READ.
What I don't write is as important as what I write.
Other kids did drugs; I did crafts. I never knew where I fit in.
I love that there's a beginning, middle and end to a film and you can craft what the whole journey is going to look like.
When I watch a singer perform, or an athlete, I can't help but be driven to be the best I can be at my craft.
I was a young cat, and I was very fast, but I wasn't telling no kind of story.