Jack Of All Trades Quotes:

I'm not a jack of all trades; I'm a master of many. I don't feel there is anything I can't do if I want to.

- Evel Knievel

topic: Want, Masters, Trade, Jack Of All Trades

The jack-of-all-trades seldom is good at any. Concentrate all of your efforts on one definite chief aim.

- Napoleon Hill

topic: Success, Effort, Chiefs, Jack Of All Trades, Concentrating

My purist comedy friends accuse me of being a Jack of all trades and master of none.

- Marcus Brigstocke

topic: Comedy, Masters, Trade, Jack Of All Trades

I think actors become jacks-of-all-trades and masters of none.

- Josh Lucas

topic: Thinking, Actors, Masters, Jack Of All Trades

The trouble is that after nine years as a Jack of all trades and Master of the Dominican Order, I have no expertise on anything except airports and exotic foods.

- Timothy Radcliffe

topic: Order, Years, Airports, Jack Of All Trades

Well, I was sort of a jack-of-all-trades in show business for a long time. I was a singer and a dancer and then I got a job as an actor.

- Christopher Walken

topic: Jobs, Long, Dancer, Jack Of All Trades

I've always been obsessed with drums. They fascinate me. Any other instrument - nothing. I play acoustic guitar a bit. But it's always been drums first and foremost. I don't reckon on this Jack-of-all-trades thing. I thing that felling is a lot more important than technique. It's all very well doing a triple paradiddle - but who's going to know you've done it? If you play technically you sound like everybody else. It's being original that counts.

- John Bonham

topic: Guitar, Play, Important, Jack Of All Trades, Being Original

All trades, arts, and handiworks have gained by division of labor... Where the different kinds of work are not distinguished and divided, where everyone is a jack-of-all-trades, there manufactures remain still in the greatest barbarism.

- Immanuel Kant

source: Immanuel Kant (2008). “Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals”, p.2, Cosimo, Inc.

topic: Art, Division Of Labor, Different, Jack Of All Trades, Handiwork