Bill Buford Quotes

I was a journeyman chef of middling abilities. Whatever authority I have as a commenter on this world comes from the sheer weight of 28 years in the business. I kicked around for 28 years and came out the other end alive and able to form a sentence.

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

It's very easy to learn. And very difficult to master.

You've got to perfect your craft.

Once you have mastered a technique, you barely have to look at a recipe again

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.

It taught me something. It taught you your craft.

Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value.

Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.

These performers that go on about their technique and craft - oh, puleeze! How boring! I don't know what 'technique' means. But I do know what experience is.

If it's flipping hamburgers at McDonald's, be the best hamburger flipper in the world. Whatever it is you do you have to master your craft.

I have been performing in the street for more than 50 years: magic for basically 60 years, and the high wire 45 years. The beauty of it is that it's never the same. It's never easy. And yet, part of my art is to make it look easy.

The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.

If you're lucky as you get older, you respect the craft and it becomes a skill.

The biggest challenge to me is always technique.

It's a joy to listen to someone at the top of their craft.

I used to watch Juninho's free-kicks without being able to figure out how he hit them. I tried and tried until, eventually, I came up with my own way to strike them.

I wouldn't expect anybody to look for superawesome crisp technique out of me.

When you play, you get an opportunity to hone your craft.

If you're any good at all at what you do, you get better the more you do it.

Don't worry about being famous or making money; the most important thing is being the best. You have to become a master of your craft, and everything else will come.

That's what distinguishes the pros from people involved in amateur theatre. You just go out and do it again and again.

Put yourself into every situation in training and against every style of bowling, and do that for hours and hours and hours. Then when you get to a match, it's almost instinctive the way you play because you've done it so often in training.

You get better as the rounds go on.

I have to really work hard at my craft.