A master never blames her tools, but she also doesn’t try to force a stone to cut steel.

You can’t put a DSLR into someone’s hand and expect them to shoot a film; it takes more than a pen and paper to produce a novel; and the ingredients for a soufflé are in no way guaranteed to become a soufflé, despite our best laid plans.

Sometimes we need new tools, sometimes we’re what needs to be sharpened.