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  • 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. -- Mary Ellen Chase
  • Before I started chemotherapy treatments, I wrote down the best advice from doctors, family, friends, books, and survivors and created an 'Owner's Manual' to help me take care of myself. It would remind me that cancer is doable. -- Regina Brett
  • I thought Manual Labor was a Mexican golf pro. -- Lee Trevino
  • Everything in this book may be wrong. - The Savior's Manual -- Richard Bach
  • Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual ... may well be the chess book of the year... [It] comes close to an ultimate one-volume manual on the endgame. -- Lubomir Kavalek
  • Manual Lynn? Find out what that is. He wrote every single word in the play, and then everyone just rapped their parts. Imagine if like, Eminem wrote a play, that's what it sounded like to me. -- Ryan Montgomery
  • With respect to the outlines of what's in the Army Field Manual, there's no doubt in my mind about the limitations it places not only on the DOD, but on the Central Intelligence Agency. And I'll always comply with the law. -- James Mattis
  • Every decade needs its own manual of handicraft. -- Liberty Hyde Bailey
  • Any product that needs a manual to work is broken. -- Elon Musk
  • Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers. -- George Orwell
  • The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
  • A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual. -- Gloria Steinem
  • I would say I'd rather dig a ditch, you know, do hard, manual labor than write lyrics. -- Natalie Merchant
  • Most people treat the office manual the way they treat a software manual. They never look at it. -- James Levine
  • Kids don't come with an instruction manual. So if you're gonna make mistakes, at least make them your own way. -- Steve Schirripa
  • Everything from airplanes to kitchen blenders and even chopsticks comes with an instruction manual. Children, despite all their complexity, do not. -- Lawrence Kutner
  • Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner's manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage. -- Anne Lamott
  • 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. -- Charlie Sheen
  • Girls are complicated. The instruction manual that comes with girls is 800 pages, with chapters 14, 19, 26 and 32 missing, and it's badly translated, hard to figure out. -- Hugh Laurie
  • 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
  • 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. -- Jacqueline Bisset
  • 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. -- Nick Offerman
  • I was a manual labourer. I figured out really early on that the value of my life could be determined by my hourly rate as a manual labourer digging holes. -- Cliff Curtis
  • 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. -- Chuck Palahniuk
  • Language pedants hew to an oral tradition of shibboleths that have no basis in logic or style, that have been defied by great writers for centuries, and that have been disavowed by every thoughtful usage manual. -- Steven Pinker
  • Design is a way of life, a point of view. It involves the whole complex of visual communications: talent, creative ability, manual skill, and technical knowledge. Aesthetics and economics, technology and psychology are intrinsically related to the process. -- Paul Rand
  • Food became for me a way of becoming self-sufficient with my hands, to regain manual literacy, which I think has been lost on our generation and certainly younger generations. Very few people can actually make things with their hands and do things with their hands. -- Tim Ferriss
  • Psychology, unlike chemistry, unlike algebra, unlike literature, is an owner's manual for your own mind. It's a guide to life. What could be more important than grounding young people in the scientific information that they need to live happy, healthy, productive lives? To have good relationships? -- Daniel Goldstein
  • Read something of interest every day - something of interest to you, not to your teacher or your best friend or your minister/rabbi/priest. Comics count. So does poetry. So do editorials in your school newspaper. Or a biography of a rock star. Or an instructional manual. Or the Bible. -- Jane Yolen
  • Jews have a special relationship to books, and the Haggadah has been translated more widely, and reprinted more often, than any other Jewish book. It is not a work of history or philosophy, not a prayer book, user's manual, timeline, poem or palimpsest - and yet it is all these things. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
  • The manual for WordStar, the most popular word-processing program, is 400 pages thick. To write a novel, you have to read a novel - one that reads like a mystery to most people. They're not going to learn slash q-z any more than they're going to learn Morse code. That is what Macintosh is all about. -- Steve Jobs
  • Literature is not an instruction manual. -- Charles Baxter
  • My father was a manual worker. -- Diane Abbott
  • I class myself as a manual laborer. -- Theodore White
  • Life doesn't come with an instruction manual. -- Scott Westerfeld
  • I hate having to read the manual. -- Trevor Horn
  • Why doesn't love come with an owner's manual? -- Ellen Hopkins
  • I never liked to work, I mean manual work. -- P. T. Barnum
  • Any manual labor I've done was purely by mistake. -- Jimmy Buffett
  • Failure is an instruction manual written in scar tissue. -- Chuck Wendig
  • The human brain doesn't come with an instruction manual. -- Bill Engvall
  • Sage," Adrian declared. "These hands don't do manual labor. -- Richelle Mead
  • If we were a sex manual it'd be a best-seller. -- Rick Carlisle
  • Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination. -- Ishmael Reed
  • I've got a Range Rover. It's brilliant actually but it's manual. -- Mick Ralphs
  • To be an artist is first to be a manual laborer. -- Irving Stone
  • Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe. -- John Gregory Dunne
  • Where's your instruction manual?" I asked him. "What's the baby customer-service number? -- Lisa Kleypas
  • A mobile phone needs a manual in the way that a teacup doesn't -- Douglas Adams
  • If you have to have a policy manual, publish the 'Ten Commandments.' -- Robert Townsend
  • There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor. -- Oscar Wilde
  • I like manual things, doing things with my hands, the feeling of touching. -- Fabiola Gianotti
  • Real philosophy is like trying to read an alarm system installation manual in Korean. -- Chris Hardwick
  • Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual. -- Terry Pratchett
  • Writing a manual forces you to place your thoughts and ideas down on paper. -- Tara VanDerveer
  • Useful manual labour, intelligently performed, is the means par excellence for developing the intellect. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • Hoeing: A manual method of severing roots from stems of newly planted flowers and vegetables. -- Henry Beard
  • Everyone should learn a manual trade: It's never too late to become an honest person. -- Edward Abbey
  • I never play video games! I'm so bad at it. I have, like, no manual dexterity. -- Kelly Hu
  • Painting is manual labor, no different from any other; it can be done well or poorly. -- George Grosz
  • It is a sad thing that our schoolboys look upon manual labour with disfavour, if not contempt. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • Lately, the only thing keeping me from being a serial killer is my distaste for manual labor. -- Scott Adams
  • Put aside your need for a step-by-step manual and instead realize that analogies are your best friend. -- Seth Godin
  • The manual worker does not have to sell his personality. He doesn't have to sell his smile. -- Erich Fromm
  • I shave every day with an ancient manual razor. It was my father's, and I love it. -- Brunello Cucinelli
  • I've never read a kayak manual, but I'm pretty sure page one says 'Use in water.' -- Bill Engvall
  • If you vote for Democrats, you might as well give Al Quaeda a death ray and a manual. -- John Oliver
  • We can't hire out our own inner work, but we can do the manual labor with delight and decency. -- Sakyong Mipham
  • No one has a monopoly on our unending story of nationhood; no one has the manual for our nationhood. -- John Tamihere
  • His manual of heaven and hell lay open before me, and I could perceive my nothingness in this scheme. -- William Golding
  • Balance Sheets are meaningless. Our accounting systems are still based on the assumption that 80% of costs are manual labor. -- Peter Drucker
  • Leafing through Forbes or Fortune [magazine]s is like reading the operating manual of a strangely sanctimonious pirate ship -- Adam Gopnik
  • I'm self-taught and emailed photographers I knew if I had questions I couldn't figure out from the manual or online. -- Hanneli Mustaparta
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  • I worked full time jobs, basically doing manual labor until I could make enough money supporting myself as a musician. -- Flea
  • I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating. -- W. Somerset Maugham
  • I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate. -- Marguerite Duras
  • God's Word is your owner's manual for life. It contains principles for health, finance, marriage, other relationships, business, and much more. -- Rick Warren
  • The most difficult book I have ever read was a manual on the use of iron bangles by A.J. Thompson. -- Spike Milligan
  • 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. -- Nicholas Jarecki
  • Every successful business, even Google, Facebook, Twitter, started with a combination of manual improvements and friends of the founders using the site. -- James Altucher
  • 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
  • To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them. -- Henry Fielding
  • Syzygy, inexorable, pancreatic, phantasmagoria - anyone who can use those four words in one sentence will never have to do manual labor. -- W. P. Kinsella
  • Managers are agents of transformation, converting the workforce in developed countries from one of manual workers to one of highly educated knowledge workers. -- Peter Drucker
  • What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is they look down at people who are engaged in manual labour -- Sunday Adelaja
  • Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual - not how to use it but why, when and for what. -- Alan Kay
  • I would write my editorials using a manual typewriter in pitch-black darkness... I would produce the whole thing without having seen the text. -- Charles Krauthammer
  • 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. -- Alice McDermott
  • You know boys, a nuclear reactor is a lot like women. You just have to read the manual and press the right button. -- Homer
  • A home cook who relies too much on a recipe is sort of like a pilot who reads the plane's instruction manual while flying. -- Alton Brown
  • Still, this whole grim reaper thing should have come with a manual. Or a diagram of some kind. A flowchart would have been nice. -- Darynda Jones
  • Chance is but the pseudonym of God for those particular cases, which he does not choose to acknowledge openly with his own sign manual. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • Selling is a person-to-person business. You cannot send the sales manual out to make the sale. Sales manuals have no legs and no voice. -- Jim Rohn
  • 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. -- Jason Ritter
  • I'm driving my dad's old ute. So it's a manual ute. It's massive, so when people see me coming, they just kind of run away! -- Bindi Irwin
  • Work, mental or manual, is the means whereby attention is compelled, it is the instrument of all knowledge and virtue, the root whence all excellence springs. -- John Lancaster Spalding
  • 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.' -- Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Modern life cannot be constructed on . . . physically strenuous principles. A great deal of work is sedentary, and most manual work exercises only a few specialized muscles. -- Bertrand Russell
  • 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. -- Benedict of Nursia
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  • This is my life's work. It is a user's manual to the human being, a parenting book and how to be the best you can be. -- Faye Snyder
  • This is my life's work. It is a user's manual to the human being, a parenting book ... and how to be the best you can be. -- Faye Snyder
  • 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. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
  • There was no blueprint or how-to manual for fixing a global financial meltdown, an auto crisis, two wars and a great recession, all at the same time. -- Rahm Emanuel
  • Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in the language Basic. -- Eric Allin Cornell
  • 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 . -- Karl Marx
  • There is no right by the federal or state constitution to manual recounts. There is no law that says that you must count dimpled ballots, constitutional or otherwise. -- Bill Vaughan
  • The only true and effective "operator's manual for spaceship earth" is not a book that any human will ever write; it is hundreds of thousands of local cultures. -- Wendell Berry
  • The more fashionable doctors in Italy, began to delegate to slaves the manual attentions they deemed necessary for their patients ... that the art of medicine went to ruin. -- Andreas Vesalius
  • As far as you can, do some manual work so as to be able to give alms, for it is written that alms and faith purify from sin. -- Poemen
  • I fantasize about having a manual job where I can come home at night, read a book and not feel responsible for what will happen the next day. -- Jodie Foster
  • In the twenty-first century, human minds, and to a lesser extent, human hearts can work like well calibrated precision instruments, but who can write the universal manual on imagination? -- Martin Guevara Urbina
  • 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. -- Johnny Marr
  • I'm trying to figure things out in the world. No one knows what this life thing is all about - there's no manual. Just trying to figure it out. -- Mike Tyson
  • Whatever you do, whatever you're working with, whether it's manual work or talking to people or buying or selling, every little thing encompasses the power and simplicity of presence. -- Eckhart Tolle
  • . . . Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded. . . . -- Plato
  • I love weird or funny or beautiful sentences; Joy Williams could write a microwave-oven manual and I'm sure I'd love it, because the sentences would be tuned up like music. -- Karen Russell
  • He continues to give more than 100 per cent and his schoolboy-like enthusiasm for the game is something I envy and admire. For the team he is the best available coaching manual. -- Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Every time you suppress some part of yourself or allow others to play you small, you are in essence ignoring the owner's manual your creator gave you and destroying your design. -- Oprah Winfrey
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