Robert J. Shiller Quotes

Coltrane had a sax, Dale Earnhardt drives a race car and everybody has their tools.

A man and his tools make a man and his trade.

Let every man practise the trade which he best understands.

Some people are so busy learning the tricks of the trade that they never learn the trade.

I think that anybody's craft is fascinating. A taxi driver talking about taxi driving is going to be very, very interesting.

Training, that's my specialty.

I'm kind of the shoe guy.

There must be bands of enthusiasts for everything on earth-fanatics who shared a vocabulary, a batch of technical skills and equipment, and, perhaps, a vision of some single slice of the beauty and mystery of things, of their complexity, fascination, and unexpectedness.

Let a man practice the profession which he best knows.

A trade is better then service.

Being a specialist is one thing, getting a job is another.

You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you know that if you were to attempt all these things they would all be more or less ill done.

As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time.

Let each man exercise the art he knows.

By the work one knows the workman.

I'm a golfer not a history major.

You should trust any man in his own art provided he is skilled in it.

I love war because of the fame that goes with it; but were I not a Prince I should devote myself entirely to philosophy. After all, every one in this world must have his trade.

The increasing technicality of the terminology employed is also a serious difficulty. It has become necessary to learn an extensive vocabulary before a book in even a limited department of science can be consulted with much profit. This change, of course, has its advantages for the initiated, in securing precision and concisement of statement; but it tends to narrow the field in which an investigator can labor, and it cannot fail to become, in the future, a serious impediment …

If you're a plumber, you plumb. I'm an actor. I act.

I'd rather not be a roofer.

I am a storyteller by trade.

In Portland, I am more involved in the details of trade discussions because I've been around that sport longer and can watch tape and can give some input to the drafting process. In football, not at all. It's so specialized.

Whatever it is you do, study it, learn the ins and outs of it, and really work on building your craft.