Manual Labour Quotes

• Acting is a great way to make a living, especially when I consider what my alternatives were and probably still are. I mean, you are only making movies. It is a lot less pressure than being a surgeon; although it seemed like the only other thing that I was qualified for was manual labour.

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  James Spader

  Mean   Acting   Alternatives  

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Now in regard to trades and other means of livelihood, which ones are to be considered becoming to a gentleman and which ones are vulgar, we have been taught, in general, as follows. First, those means of livelihood are rejected as undesirable which incur people's ill-will, as those of tax-gatherers and usurers. Unbecoming to a gentleman, too, and vulgar are the means of livelihood of all hired workmen whom we pay for mere manual labour, not for artistic skill; for in their case the very wage they receive is a pledge of their slavery.

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  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Mean   Skills   Ill Will  

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.3108, Delphi Classics

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• Useful manual labour, intelligently performed, is the means par excellence for developing the intellect.

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  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean   Excellence   Intellect  

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Non-Violent Resistance and Social Transformation”, Clarendon Press

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• I have always regarded manual labour as creative and looked with respect-and, yes, wonder-at people who work with their hands. It seems to me that their creativity is no less than that of a violinist or painter.

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  Pablo Casals

  Creativity   Hands   People  

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• Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of writing lately, I can deduce nothing else.

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  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Writing   Obviousness   Done  

  "The Red-Headed League" (1891)

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• I love being in my garden. I don't plant a lot of exotic flora, but I do spend a lot of time outside doing manual labour.

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  Jacqueline Bisset

  Garden   Exotic   Plant  

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• It is a sad thing that our schoolboys look upon manual labour with disfavour, if not contempt.

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  Mahatma Gandhi

  Looks   Look Up   Contempt  

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.175, Rajpal & Sons

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