#manual

I have a Ph.D. in cell biology. And that's really manual labor. I mean, experimental science, you do it with your hands. So it's very different. You're out there in a lab, cleaning test tubes, and it just wasn't that fascinating. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#cell #cleaning #different #experimental #fascinating

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. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#compose #easier #form #just #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. ↗

— Mary Ellen Chase

#father #given #good #labor #manual

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. ↗

— Jennifer Connelly

#growing #growing up #i #just #kind

Miles added it to his life's lessons list. Call it Rule 27B. Never make key tactical decisions while having electro-convulsive seizures. ↗

— Lois McMaster Bujold

#guidebok #life-lessons #manual #rule #tactics

The manuals we got from IBM would show examples of programs and I knew I could do a heck of a lot better than that. So I thought I might have some talent. ↗

— Donald Knuth

#could #examples #got #heck #i

The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of today, that union between manual and intellectual labor which characterizes the society we are aiming at. ↗

— Simone Weil

#aiming #already #as far as #between #brought

With intellectual labor your hard work is forever, while with manual labor your hard work is temporary and soon forgotten.
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— Jarod Kintz

#forgotten #hard-work #intellect #intellectual #labor

I'm rather pleased with the new manuals. I see Inform now as a gauche young adult, having got past the stage of growing out of his shoes every few months. ↗

— Graham Nelson

#every #few #got #growing #having

Acting is a great way to make a living, especially when I consider what my alternatives were and probably still are. I mean, you are only making movies. It is a lot less pressure than being a surgeon; although it seemed like the only other thing that I was qualified for was manual labour. ↗

— James Spader

#alternatives #although #being #consider #especially