#manual

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

#empowering #fame #handle #how #i

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. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#intelligence #labor #labor-activism #manual-labor #intelligence

My father was a manual worker. ↗

— Diane Abbott

#manual #worker

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

#friends #good #great #having #how

There's something on the Internet called the White Resistance Manual. It's pretty much for white supremacists. ↗

— Sherman Austin

#internet #manual #much #pretty #resistance

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

#doing #exotic #flora #garden #i

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