A Quote by Daphne du Maurier

A bad workman blames his tools.

Daphne du Maurier

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Daphne du Maurier
English - Novelist
May 13, 1907 - April 19, 1989

A paradigm is a powerful theoretical and methodological framework which defines the working lives of thousands of intelligent and disciplined minds. And paradigms do not attract the loyalty of such minds unless they 'work'. One of the first things a graduate student learns is that if there is a discrepancy between the paradigm and what he or she has discovered, then the automatic assumption is that the paradigm is right and the student wrong. Just as a good workman never blames his tools, so the diligent student never blames his paradigm

John Naughton

A bad workman quarrels with his tools.

George Herbert

I'd like people to remember me for a diligent expert workman. I think a poet is a workman. I think Shakespeare was a workman. And God's a workman. I don't think there's anything better than a workman.

Laurence Olivier

A workman who wants to do his work well must first prepare his tools.

Confucius

When a workman knows the use of his tools, he can make a door as well as a window.

George Eliot

There's an old saying,'It's a poor craftsman who blames his tools.' It's usually the player who misses those three-footers, not the putter.

Kathy Whitworth

The glory of a workman, still more of a master workman, that he does his work well, ought to be his most precious possession; like the honor of a soldier, dearer to him than life.

Thomas Carlyle

A vulgar man, in any ill that happens to him, blames others; a novice in philosophy blames himself; and a philosopher blames neither, the one nor the other.

Epictetus

Everyone blames his memory, no one blames his judgment.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We're living under the Obama economy. Any CEO in America with a record like this after three years on the job would be graciously shown the door. This president blames the managers instead. He blames the folks on the shop floor. He blames the weather.

Mitch McConnell

Every wise workman takes his tools away from the work from time to time that they may be ground and sharpened; so does the only-wise Jehovah take his ministers oftentimes away into darkness and loneliness and trouble, that he may sharpen and prepare them for harder work in his service.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne

Men are more important than tools. If you don't believe so, put a good tool into the hands of a poor workman.

John Joseph Bernet

A lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools.

Thomas Jefferson

A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark.

H. L. Mencken

A bad workman quarrels with the man who calls him that.

Ambrose Bierce

Man can and does rationalize his sins. He finds reasons for all his weakness, invents excuses that first calm and then deaden his conscience. He blames God, society, education, and environment for his wrong doing.

Mother Angelica

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