Quotes with craft-service

Quotes 101 till 120 of 212.

  • Herbert Hoover My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbounded hope.
    Herbert Hoover
    American engineer, businessman and politician (1874 - 1964)
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  • Bobby McFerrin My father was a very disciplined singer who worked hard at his craft, and I was around that growing up.
    Bobby McFerrin
    American jazz vocalist (1950 - )
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  • Bill de Blasio My professional life has been about public service. My personal life I define very intently through my family.
    Bill de Blasio
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Bernard Sahlins My theory is that everything an actor does, from the way he looks at his watch to the way he moves across the stage, is in the service of advancing a story, and in that sense, it's all writing. In that sense we, while acting, write.
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  • Herodotus Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. [The Motto Of The U.S. Postal Service]
    Herodotus
    Greek historian (484 - 425)
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  • Calvin Coolidge No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Bob Riley No two wars are ever the same. Some are just, some are unjust, but the basic commonality shared between them all is that young men and women heeded a call to service, overcame their fear, and fought for their side.
    Bob Riley
    American politician (1944 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Barry Humphries Now the point of comedy is not just looking funny, it's use of language. We have at our disposal a great language... and the imaginative, creative use of that language can be at the service of humour.
    Barry Humphries
    Australian comedian, actor, artist, and author (1934 - 2023)
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  • William Arthur Ward Obedience to our Heavenly Father starts with our loving service to a needy brother.
    William Arthur Ward
    American writer and poet (1921 - 1994)
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  • Joan Didion Of course great hotels have always been social ideas, flawless mirrors to the particular societies they service.
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Bernard M. Baruch Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Bill Flores On Memorial Day, we remember the service of those brave military men and women who paid the ultimate sacrifice defending and protecting our freedoms.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Curtis Carlson Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed
    Curtis Carlson
    American businessman and technologist (1945 - )
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  • Butch Trucks Our approach is more the jazz approach, where you learn to play your instrument as well as you can, develop your craft, and then communicate with each other. That's the focus, not trying to give some message or entertain or have a good light show or whatever.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Robert Frost Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Bill Drayton Public service and respect for ideas is a recurrent theme in both the American and Australian sides of my family.
    Bill Drayton
    American social entrepreneur
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  • Carol Berg Read. Read. Read. Read many genres. Read good writing. Read bad writing and figure out the difference. Learn the craft of writing.
    Carol Berg
    American writer of fantasy novels (1948 - )
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  • Anatole France Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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