Top 1200 Manual Work Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

It's very clear that Mr. DeSantis is taking a page directly from the campaign manual of Donald Trump.

Learning how to be a good parent was easy in the end because I'd basically had the What Not To Do manual.

I shave every day with an ancient manual razor. It was my father's, and I love it.

We're allowing technology to take out the non-value-added manual elements of the McDonald's experience.

Hoeing: A manual method of severing roots from stems of newly planted flowers and vegetables.

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.

Real philosophy is like trying to read an alarm system installation manual in Korean.

Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.

I would say I'd rather dig a ditch, you know, do hard, manual labor than write lyrics.

Fame is empowering. My mistake was that I thought I would instinctively know how to handle it. But there's no manual, no training course.

A perfect poem you can't pin down and say, 'This is exactly what it meant to me.' It's not a self-help manual.

I never play video games! I'm so bad at it. I have, like, no manual dexterity.

I spend a fair amount of time on my computer, but I don't hack into anything. I have to open the manual and follow instructions.

Just before I left [Cuba], I was about to transfer to the university. I had decided I had had enough experience in work in the manual areas. But then I got word from the United States that I could return...that my party had gathered enough information about the false charges that were against me for me to return to the United States.

To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.

Where's your instruction manual?" I asked him. "What's the baby customer-service number?

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

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.

I went through college while working a full-time manual-labor job, and I don't regret a minute of it; it was a great learning experience.

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

I've never read a kayak manual, but I'm pretty sure page one says 'Use in water.'

Aristotle wrote the 'Poetics' 2,400 years ago. It's really an instruction manual for aspiring filmmakers. It's as valid today as it was then.

Growing up on a farm, I saw that if I didn't go to the military or go to school, and I knew my mom and my family wasn't going to be able to send me to school out of their pocket, so it basically came down to athletics. I knew I didn't want to work on a farm. I knew I didn't want to do manual labor the rest of my life.

Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.

Dybala is three pages ahead of the rest in the football manual.

Between labor and play stands work. A man is a worker if he is personally interested in the job which society pays him to do; whatfrom the point of view of society is necessary labor is from his point of view voluntary play. Whether a job is to be classified as labor or work depends, not on the job itself, but on the tastes of the individual who undertakes it. The difference does not, for example, coincide with the difference between a manual and a mental job; a gardener or a cobbler may be a worker, a bank clerk a laborer.

I'm self-taught and emailed photographers I knew if I had questions I couldn't figure out from the manual or online.

I use the volume control on my guitar, both for dynamics and as a manual noise gate.

Writing a manual forces you to place your thoughts and ideas down on paper.

As the chosen people bore in their features the sign manual of Jehovah , so the division of labour brands the manufacturing workman as the property of capital .

I didn't know much about computers. I still worked on a manual Olivetti typewriter.

Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual - not how to use it but why, when, and for what.

I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

The most difficult book I have ever read was a manual on the use of iron bangles by A.J. Thompson.

My first love was, and remains, manual labor; sowing and harvesting, the pastures, the flock, and the cattle.

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

Everyone should learn a manual trade: It's never too late to become an honest person.

When you're on the verge of depression, a good leveller is to put one foot in front of the other and do some manual labour.

Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner's manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage.

The Widelux is a fickle mistress; its viewfinder isn't accurate, and there's no manual focus, so it has an arbitrariness to it, a capricious quality. I like that.

The reason literacy is important is that literature is the operating instructions. The best manual we have. The most useful guide to the country we're visiting, life.

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.

I want to speak directly to the audience, to say, 'I'm like you - I'm frustrated, I'm not an expert, I don't have a manual on parenting, I make mistakes, I'm selfish too.'

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

Writing is manual labor of the mind - like laying pipe.

I'm a big non-believer in manual driver and kernel configuration, be it visual or not.

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

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.

In many joyfully-admired recent novels, love appears as little more than sex-manual instruction.

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

Leafing through Forbes or Fortune [magazine]s is like reading the operating manual of a strangely sanctimonious pirate ship

Everything from airplanes to kitchen blenders and even chopsticks comes with an instruction manual. Children, despite all their complexity, do not.

I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.

If you vote for Democrats, you might as well give Al Quaeda a death ray and a manual.

Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for it's own sake but, as he was given to saying, it straightened out one's thoughts.

Any manual labor I've done was purely by mistake.

Our minds must meditate on some object. According to what he thinks, a man can create an atmosphere of radiance, exuberance, buoyancy; and this brings joy. Or he can carry gloom with him. It is a matter of the habit of thought. We must build up our own life by our thoughts. There are many ways by which we can do this. Art, music, even manual work, all can bring ripening to the soul.

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

Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.

You know boys, a nuclear reactor is a lot like women. You just have to read the manual and press the right button.