top of page
.png){kind=small}
"If a craftsman wants to do good work, he must first sharpen his tools."
Standard
Customized
More
"Every man has a specific skill, whether it is discovered or not, that more readily and naturally comes to him than it would to another, and his own should be sought and polished. He excels best in his niche - originality loses its authenticity in one's efforts to obtain originality."
Author Name
Personal Development
"If you want to be a calligrapher, write, and write, and write."
Author Name
Personal Development
"It is the goldsmith who can assay the gold."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Skill to do comes of doing."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The key is in the craft."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The master initiate of any craft appears magical to the uninitiated."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Tengo had a gift for such work. He was a born technician, possessing both the intense concentration of a bird sailing through the air in search of prey and the patience of a donkey hauling water, playing always by the rules of the game."
Author Name
Personal Development
"A whetstone, though it cannot cut, may sharpen a knife that will."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Every habit makes our hand more witty, and out wit more handy."
Author Name
Personal Development
"A good marksman may miss."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"Heaven means to be one with God."
God
"I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me;I will be concerned at my own want of ability."
Man
"The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions."
Action
"Study the past, if you would divine the future."
Future
"When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps."
Action
"Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, see to the (be?) worthy of being known."
Being
"When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge."
Knowledge
"To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness."
Beginning
"By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest."
Experience
"Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods."
Art
bottom of page