"My father thought of himself as a tradesman. A craftsman."

-- Thomas Steinbeck

#Father Quotes #Craftsman Quotes

“Pundits talk about 'populist rage' as a way to trivialize the anger and fear coursing through the middle class.”
“Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.”
“A book on the new physics, if not purely descriptive of experimental work, must essentially be mathematical.”
“I'm obsessed with TV. How wrong our parents were when they said we should only watch an hour a day. Stop wasting your time reading books.”
“Once you've got a task to do, it's better to do it than live with the fear of it.”

Source : Joe Abercrombie (2009). “The Blade Itself: The First Law: Book One”, p.7, Hachette UK
“No one goes to heaven by parroting a prayer, being baptized, or joining a church, but by believing in Jesus Christ with humble submission.”
“Baptism is faith in action.”
“A leaf that falls into a stream (or a leaf we intentionally drop into a stream) just where the water disappears into the ground...will come out again at the next opening, because the underground stream has faithfully carried it there, though during this journey it has been beyond the reach of any outside interference. In the same way, an idea that has been introduced into our minds (or that we ourselves have intentionally introduced) will produce its effects after longer or shorter subconscious development.”

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