A Quote by Irving Stone

To be an artist is first to be a manual laborer.

Irving Stone

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Artist First Laborer Manual Manual Labor

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Irving Stone
American - Writer
July 14, 1903 - August 26, 1989

I class myself as a manual laborer.

Theodore White

In the immense cathedral which is the universe of God, each person, whether scholar or manual laborer, is called to act as the priest of his whole life--to take all that is human, and to turn it into an offering and a hymn of glory.

Paul Evdokimov

Ah little recks the laborer, How near his work is holding him to God, The loving Laborer through space and time

Walt Whitman

The man of science, the artist, the philosopher are attached to their nations as much as the day-laborer and the merchant.

Julien Benda

You simply keep putting down one damn word after the other, as you hear them, as they come to you. You can either set brick as a laborer or as an artist.

Anne Lamott

We want to shut down the day laborer site. This day laborer site undermines and violates federal immigration law, and it can't go forward.

Tom Fitton

I grew up having to do manual labor because people always told me that I was an ugly girl. I've never had the permission to be myself except for when I'm doing manual labor. Because in manual labor, it's about, 'Can you pick this up, can you move this here,' and I could.

Rain Dove

I don't think you could have a 7 with a manual. But I can't see having a BMW sports sedan without a manual.

Thomas Keller

When a device as simple as a door has to come with an instruction manual—even a one-word manual—then it is a failure, poorly designed.

Donald A. Norman

The training kicked in and we quickly went through our emergency procedures, I took manual control and I got the spacecraft under control and stopped about 50 meters from the space station. So, the net effect of the failure was that we were actually turning and speeding up towards the space station when we should have been slowing down, so it was quite a dangerous situation. But we got manual control, performed the first manual docking to the station at night. The training pays off. It was just automatic. We had our books out already, we went right to the right procedures and executed them.

Leroy Chiao

The first choice an artist makes is precisely to be an artist, and if he chooses to be an artist it is in consideration of what he is himself and because of a certain idea he has of art