Manual Labor Quotes

Manual Labor Quote of the day

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.

Idleness is the enemy of the soul.

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

I thought Manual Labor was a Mexican golf pro.

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

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

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.'

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.

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

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

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.

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

Some of the best ideas I get seem to happen when I'm doing mindless manual labor or exercise. I'm not sure how that happens, but it leaves me free for remarkable ideas to occur.

We can't hire out our own inner work, but we can do the manual labor with delight and decency.

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.

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

Sage,” Adrian declared. “These hands don’t do manual labor.

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

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

I've always been amused by the contention that brain work is harder than manual labor. I've never known a man to leave a desk for a muck-stick if he could avoid it.

Human labor, the manual work that people engage in to build their world, both physical and spiritual, defines the realization of their conceptual realm.