Every moment I shape my destiny with a chisel - I am the carpenter of my own soul.
By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.
In a world where carpenters get resurrected, everything is possible.
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.
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.
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
Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one.
The house praises the carpenter.
Jesus came into this world not as a philosopher or a general but as a carpenter. All work matters to God.
A carpenter is known by his chips.
I like making things. I have a wood shop at home. I am a terrible carpenter but I love doing it.
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.
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.
I come from an ordinary family - my dad is a carpenter, a roof-maker - and we've always loved racing together.
An axe at home saves hiring a carpenter.
I think I have more in common with a carpenter than you might think. We're putting things together.
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.
Certain remakes are great. Carpenter's The Thing is better than the original.
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.
If I were a carpenter, I'd find a way to empower using that skill. I'm using as much as God has given - my mind, my voice, my heart, my art forms. This is the highest form of expression on the planet from God, to me, to you.
I do think a carpenter needs a good hammer to bang in the nail.
The carpenter is not the best who makes more chips than all the rest.
As a house implies a builder, and a garment a weaver, and a door a carpenter, so does the existence of the Universe imply a Creator.
You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn't need to have muscles.
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.
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