Quotes about 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. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

I thought Manual Labor was a Mexican golf pro. Votes: 3

Everything in this book may be wrong. - The Savior's Manual Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Every decade needs its own manual of handicraft. Votes: 2

Any product that needs a manual to work is broken. Votes: 2

Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers. Votes: 2

The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual. Votes: 2

A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual. Votes: 2

I would say I'd rather dig a ditch, you know, do hard, manual labor than write lyrics. Votes: 2

Most people treat the office manual the way they treat a software manual. They never look at it. Votes: 2

Kids don't come with an instruction manual. So if you're gonna make mistakes, at least make them your own way. Votes: 2

Everything from airplanes to kitchen blenders and even chopsticks comes with an instruction manual. Children, despite all their complexity, do not. Votes: 2

Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner's manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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? Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Literature is not an instruction manual. Votes: 0

My father was a manual worker. Votes: 0

I class myself as a manual laborer. Votes: 0

Life doesn't come with an instruction manual. Votes: 0

I hate having to read the manual. Votes: 0

Why doesn't love come with an owner's manual? Votes: 0

I never liked to work, I mean manual work. Votes: 0

Any manual labor I've done was purely by mistake. Votes: 0

Failure is an instruction manual written in scar tissue. Votes: 0

The human brain doesn't come with an instruction manual. Votes: 0

Sage," Adrian declared. "These hands don't do manual labor. Votes: 0

If we were a sex manual it'd be a best-seller. Votes: 0

Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination. Votes: 0

I've got a Range Rover. It's brilliant actually but it's manual. Votes: 0

To be an artist is first to be a manual laborer. Votes: 0

Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe. Votes: 0

Where's your instruction manual?" I asked him. "What's the baby customer-service number? Votes: 0

A mobile phone needs a manual in the way that a teacup doesn't Votes: 0

If you have to have a policy manual, publish the 'Ten Commandments.' Votes: 0

There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor. Votes: 0

I like manual things, doing things with my hands, the feeling of touching. Votes: 0

Real philosophy is like trying to read an alarm system installation manual in Korean. Votes: 0

Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual. Votes: 0

Writing a manual forces you to place your thoughts and ideas down on paper. Votes: 0

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed, is the means par excellence for developing the intellect. Votes: 0

Hoeing: A manual method of severing roots from stems of newly planted flowers and vegetables. Votes: 0

Everyone should learn a manual trade: It's never too late to become an honest person. Votes: 0

I never play video games! I'm so bad at it. I have, like, no manual dexterity. Votes: 0

Painting is manual labor, no different from any other; it can be done well or poorly. Votes: 0

It is a sad thing that our schoolboys look upon manual labour with disfavour, if not contempt. Votes: 0

Lately, the only thing keeping me from being a serial killer is my distaste for manual labor. Votes: 0

Put aside your need for a step-by-step manual and instead realize that analogies are your best friend. Votes: 0

The manual worker does not have to sell his personality. He doesn't have to sell his smile. Votes: 0

I shave every day with an ancient manual razor. It was my father's, and I love it. Votes: 0

I've never read a kayak manual, but I'm pretty sure page one says 'Use in water.' Votes: 0

If you vote for Democrats, you might as well give Al Quaeda a death ray and a manual. Votes: 0

We can't hire out our own inner work, but we can do the manual labor with delight and decency. Votes: 0

No one has a monopoly on our unending story of nationhood; no one has the manual for our nationhood. Votes: 0

His manual of heaven and hell lay open before me, and I could perceive my nothingness in this scheme. Votes: 0

Balance Sheets are meaningless. Our accounting systems are still based on the assumption that 80% of costs are manual labor. Votes: 0

Leafing through Forbes or Fortune [magazine]s is like reading the operating manual of a strangely sanctimonious pirate ship Votes: 0

I'm self-taught and emailed photographers I knew if I had questions I couldn't figure out from the manual or online. Votes: 0

When I stepped from hard manual work to writing, I just stepped from one kind of hard work to another. Votes: 0

I worked full time jobs, basically doing manual labor until I could make enough money supporting myself as a musician. Votes: 0

I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating. Votes: 0

I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate. Votes: 0

God's Word is your owner's manual for life. It contains principles for health, finance, marriage, other relationships, business, and much more. Votes: 0

The most difficult book I have ever read was a manual on the use of iron bangles by A.J. Thompson. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Every successful business, even Google, Facebook, Twitter, started with a combination of manual improvements and friends of the founders using the site. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them. Votes: 0

Syzygy, inexorable, pancreatic, phantasmagoria - anyone who can use those four words in one sentence will never have to do manual labor. Votes: 0

Managers are agents of transformation, converting the workforce in developed countries from one of manual workers to one of highly educated knowledge workers. Votes: 0

What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is they look down at people who are engaged in manual labour Votes: 0

Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual - not how to use it but why, when and for what. Votes: 0

I would write my editorials using a manual typewriter in pitch-black darkness... I would produce the whole thing without having seen the text. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

You know boys, a nuclear reactor is a lot like women. You just have to read the manual and press the right button. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Still, this whole grim reaper thing should have come with a manual. Or a diagram of some kind. A flowchart would have been nice. Votes: 0

Chance is but the pseudonym of God for those particular cases, which he does not choose to acknowledge openly with his own sign manual. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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! Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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.' Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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 . Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

. . . 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. . . . Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I have a fork and a spoon, but never a knife"¦ as if I'm lacking manual skills or teeth. I have both, however. That's why I'm not allowed a knife. Votes: 0

If there is some profound method that offers a quick way, we would rather follow that than undertake arduous journeys and difficult practices. But some manual work and physical effort is necessary. Votes: 0

50 years from now we won't need as much human labour to do what manual workers do, so we should be able to take that extra productivity and put it to better use. Votes: 0

Something is wrong if workers do not look around each day, find things that are tedious or boring, and then rewrite the procedures. Even last month's manual should be out of date Votes: 0

When Patti Fox broke up with me, I typed her name over a thousand times on my manual Olivetti until the entire page was beaten into a stiff sheet of black ink. Votes: 0

Life doesn't come with an instruction manual for success, so Darren Hardy has written one for you. The Compound Effect shows you how small, smart choices add up to transform your life. Votes: 0

Studying the daily news can appear more interesting than the priesthood lesson manual. Sitting down to rest can be more attractive than making appointments to visit those who need our priesthood service. Votes: 0

Every time the DSM prepares for a new edition, there are countless groups lobbying to get their particular mental illness recognized by the diagnostic manual. Surely, this is a social and cultural phenomenon. Votes: 0

Writing, of course, it's not all in your head. Not talking about the 'manual' act of typing here either, but that, when your fiction's really working, your whole body's involved, and then some. Votes: 0

I hardly think that any Socialist, nowadays, would seriously propose that an inspector should call every morning at each house to see that each citizen rose up and did manual labour for eight hours. Votes: 0

I knew of no instruction manual for reaching a higher level of humanity and a greater wisdom. But I felt intuitively that laughter was the beginning of wisdom, as is was indispensable for survival. Votes: 0

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.' Votes: 0

We are stuck with technology when all we really want is just stuff that works. How do you recognize something that is still technology? A good clue is if it comes with a manual. Votes: 0

Keep it simple, stupid. Good game design shouldn't keep you looking at the manual but should have enough depth where you feel like you bring something new to the game every time you play. Votes: 0

The degree to which the child-rearing professionals continue to be out of touch with reality is astounding. For example, a widely read manual on breast-feeding, devotes fewer than two pages to the working mother. Votes: 0

In a world full of quitters, it takes true courage to commit to marriage renewal. If you want a field manual for restoring your relationship, get The Phoenix Marriage: God creates beauty out of ashes. Votes: 0

It is still true that it is easier to compose a poem in the form of a manual for adjusting a VCR than it is to write a piece using just tuning as a symphony. Votes: 0

There are no drivers like Formula One drivers. They are engineers, in a way. They are driving manual cars one-handed at 200 miles per hour around streets in Monaco. These cars use the ultimate in technology. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Jesus Christ is our supreme commander, but He operates only through His word, which is unquestionably a training manual. However, He has many interpreters, and few people see the Bible as a true training manual. Votes: 0