Manual Quotes

A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual. (Gloria Steinem)
I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate. View quote
Marguerite Duras
Everything in this book may be wrong. The Savior's Manual. View quote
Richard Bach
At the classical origins of philosophic thought, the transcending concepts remained committed to the prevailing separation between intellectual and manual labor to the established society of enslavement. ... Those who bore the brunt of the untrue reality and who, therefore, seemed to be most in need of attaining its subversion were not the concern of philosophy. It abstracted from them and continued to abstract from them. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
It has been estimated that about one-fifth of Nazi voters and members were drawn from the manual work-force. After 1933 the number of workers in the Nazi Party went up, a product of opportunism perhaps as much as conviction. View quote
Richard Overy
Life doesn't come with an instruction manual. View quote
Scott Westerfeld
Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination. View quote
Ishmael Reed
No one can learn to love by following a manual, and no one can learn to write by following a course. I'm not telling you to seek out other writers but to find people with different skills from yourself, because writing is no different from any other activity done with joy and enthusiasm. View quote
Paulo Coelho
We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class, of necessity, in every society, to forego the privileges of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual. View quote
Terry Pratchett
Architects who have aimed at acquiring manual skill without scholarship have never been able to reach a position of authority to correspond to their pains, while those who relied only upon theories and scholarship were obviously hunting the shadow, not the substance. But those who have a thorough knowledge of both, like men armed at all points, have the sooner attained their object and carried authority with them. (Vitruvius)
In the US. Infantry Manual published during World War II, the soldier was told what to do if a live grenade fell into the trench where he and others were sitting: to wrap himself around the grenade so as to at least save the others. (If no one "volunteered," all would be killed, and there were only a few seconds to decide who would be the hero.) View quote
Anatol Rapoport
This society in which knowledge workers dominate is in danger of a new "class conflict" between the large minority of knowledge workers and the majority of workers who will make their livings through traditional ways, either by manual work... or by service work. The productivity of knowledge work - still abysmally low - will predictably become the economic challenge of the knowledge society. On it will depend the ability of the knowledge society to give decent incomes, and with them dignity and status, to non knowledge people. View quote
Peter Drucker
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 . View quote
Karl Marx
Our design, not respecting arts, but philosophy, and our subject, not manual, but natural powers, we consider chiefly those things which relate to gravity, levity, elastic force, the resistance of fluids, and the like forces, whether attractive or impulsive; and therefore we offer this work as mathematical principles of philosophy; for all the difficulty of philosophy seems to consist in this from the phenomena of motions to investigate the forces of nature, and then from these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena. View quote
Isaac Newton
In the immense cathedral which is the universe of God, each person, whether scholar or manual laborer, is called to act as the priest of his whole life--to take all that is human, and to turn it into an offering and a hymn of glory. View quote
Paul Evdokimov
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. View quote
Gary North
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. View quote
Alton Brown
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. View quote
Mary Ellen Chase
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. View quote
Paul Rand
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)
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? View quote
Daniel Goldstein
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. View quote
Eric Allin Cornell
Most people treat the office manual the way they treat a software manual. They never look at it. View quote
James Levine
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. View quote
Jacqueline Bisset