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  • Most people treat the office manual the way they treat a software manual. They never look at it.

    Work   People   Office  
  • And what we've lost sight of is that performing manual labor with your hands is one of the most incredibly satisfying and positive things you can do.

    Sight   Hands   Lost  
  • There's not an instruction manual on how to deal with success, so you just have to rely on having great friends and a good team.

    "Bryan Adams on learning to deal with fame". Interview with Shirley Halperin, uk.reuters.com. March 22, 2011.
  • All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

    Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”
  • By TV standards - I'm not comparing it to manual labor by any means - by TV comedy standards, it is the hardest job I will ever, ever have. There is nothing that could be harder. I mean, when you combine the amount of writing that has to be done - sharp writing - with the fact that you then take it to the street and improvise with both celebrities who have no idea what's going to happen and real people who are not actors or comedians who don't even know I'm about to talk to them... It's lightning in a bottle every time.

    Jobs   Real   Writing  
    Source: www.avclub.com
  • When we of the so-called better classes are scared as men were never scared in history at material ugliness and hardship; when we put off marriage until our house can be artistic, and quake at the thought of having a child without a bank-account and doomed to manual labor, it is time for thinking men to protest against so unmanly and irreligious a state of opinion.

    Children   Men   Thinking  
    William James (1985). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.293, Harvard University Press
  • Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

  • There wasn't much white people would allow us to do in those days. You could be a schoolteacher or an athlete to get away from the manual labor and servant-type jobs, but there wasn't much else they were going to allow you [to] do.

    Jobs   Athlete   White  
  • Growing up, being watched from the outside... it's kind of very taxing and maybe I should just do some kind of manual labor-it might be more relaxing. But I can't, it's not in my nature.

    Growing Up   Might   Kind  
  • Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed in manual labor at certain times, at others, in devout reading.

    Reading   Soul   Enemy  
  • It is estimated that raising the retirement age to 70 would cut the shortfall by about 36%. But this proposal has some drawbacks. Women and men who have worked jobs that require manual labor all of their lives may not physically be able to do work until they are 70 years old.

  • Never, however, do I take shortcuts. There is not path of least resistance in my training. What I do equates to hard manual labor, disciplined grunt work. Once you permit yourself to compromise, you fail yourself. You might be able to fool some people, but you can never fool yourself. Your toughest critic is the one you face every morning in the mirror.

    Dean Karnazes (2012). “Run!: 26.2 Stories of Blisters and Bliss”, p.98, Rodale
  • I would say I'd rather dig a ditch, you know, do hard, manual labor than write lyrics.

    Writing   Labor   Manuals  
  • Balance Sheets are meaningless. Our accounting systems are still based on the assumption that 80% of costs are manual labor.

  • I thought Manual Labor was a Mexican golf pro.

    Golf   Mexican   Labor  
  • Painting is manual labor, no different from any other; it can be done well or poorly.

    Work   Different   Done  
    "Art of the 20th Century, Part 1". Book by Karl Ruhrberg, Klaus Honnef, Manfred Schneckenburger, Christiane Fricke, p. 190, 2000.
  • Coming from a working-class background, where my father did manual labor, was a good grounding; I was obsessed with getting a job or getting out of the house at 15.

    Jobs   Father   Class  
    Source: pitchfork.com
  • As the only class distinction available in a democracy, the college degree has created a caste society as rigid as ancient India's. Condemning elitism and simultaneously quaking in fear that our children won't become members of the elite, we send them to college, not to learn, but to "be" college graduates, rationalizing our snobbery with the cliché that high technology has eliminated the need for the manual labor that we secretly hold in contempt.

    Florence King (1991). “Lump It Or Leave It”, p.77, Macmillan
  • We can't hire out our own inner work, but we can do the manual labor with delight and decency.

    Delight   Labor   Manuals  
    Sakyong Mipham (2013). “The Shambhala Principle: Discovering Humanity's Hidden Treasure”, p.99, Harmony
  • I have a Ph.D. in cell biology. And that's really manual labor. I mean, experimental science, you do it with your hands. So it's very different. You're out there in a lab, cleaning test tubes, and it just wasn't that fascinating.

    Mean   Cells   Hands  
    Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. September 19, 2001.
  • Whenever you see some business person quoted complaining about how he or she can't find workers with the necessary skills, ask what wage they're offering. Almost always it turns out what said business person really wants is highly (and expensively) educated workers at a manual-labor wage. No wonder they come up short.

  • I'd rather do manual labor than sit behind a desk. And as my grandparents got older, I'd fly out there and help out around the farm. We'd tear barns down; we'd build barns. I'd rather be outside rolling hay or driving the tractors.

    Interview with Mark Jacobs, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 19, 2010.
  • Any manual labor I've done was purely by mistake.

    Work   Mistake   Done  
  • It was closer to manual labor than shooting a film. I always think of something Michael Caton-Jones told me: 'Pain is temporary. Film is forever.'

    Pain   Thinking   Forever  
  • Home economics should find its way into the curriculum of every school because the scientific study of a problem pertaining to food, shelter or clothing... raises manual labor that might be drudgery to the plane of intelligent effort that is always self-respecting...Home economics is not one department, in the sense in which dairying or entomology or soils is a department. It is not a single speciality... Many technical and educational departments will grow out of it as time goes on.

  • There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor.

    Art   Dignity   Moments  
  • Lately, the only thing keeping me from being a serial killer is my distaste for manual labor.

    Scott Adams (2007). “Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More”, p.440, Penguin
  • I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

    Taken   Study   Found  
  • Syzygy, inexorable, pancreatic, phantasmagoria - anyone who can use those four words in one sentence will never have to do manual labor.

    Work   Writing   Use  
  • Do you see these hands?" Jo said, holding them up. "These were made for caressing handsome men and meant to be adorned with pretty nails and diamond rings. They're not made for paint rollers and paint splatter and that kind of manual labor.

    Men   Hands   Nails  
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