Man is not the only animal who labors; but he is the only one who improves his workmanship.
Both poverty and wealth, therefore, have a bad effect on the quality of the work and the workman himself. Wealth and poverty, I answered. One produces luxury and idleness and a passion for novelty, the other meanness and bad workmanship and revolution into the bargain.
Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds your stuff to any degree of fineness.
Plants don't close from poor workmanship, but from poor management.
Hephaestus glowered up at us. “I didn’t make you, did I?” Uh,” Annabeth said, “no, sir. ” Good,” the god grumbled. “Shoddy workmanship.
Make the workmanship surpass the materials.
Quality is pride of workmanship.
High standards generally -- about workmanship and creation of objects, about what is owed in friendship, about the quality of art and much else -- far from being snobbish, are required to maintain decency in life.
The workmanship was better than the subject matter.
Workers must root out the idea that by keeping the results of their labors to themselves a fortune will be assured to them. Patent fees are so much wasted money. The flying machine of the future will not be born fully fledged and capable of a flight for 1,000 miles or so. Like everything else it must be evolved gradually. The first difficulty is to get a thing that will fly at all. When this is made, a full description should be published as an aid to others. Excellence of design and workmanship will always defy competition.
