Manual Quotes

168 Manual quotes by 159 unique authors

The more fashionable doctors in Italy, began to delegate to slaves the manual attentions they deemed necessary for their patients ... that the art of… — Andreas Vesalius
Education should therefore include the two forms of work, manual and intellectual, for the same person, and thus make it understood by practical experience that… — Maria Montessori
. . . Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will… — Plato
Never, however, do I take shortcuts. There is not path of least resistance in my training. What I do equates to hard manual labor, disciplined… — Dean Karnazes
For me, it's really easy to be kind to others when I remember that none of us came into this world with a manual about… — Jill Bolte Taylor
... the designer of a new system must not only be the implementor and the first large-scale user; the designer should also write the first… — Donald Knuth
I hate having to read the manual. — Trevor Horn
The most important, and indeed the truly unique, contribution of management in the 20th century was the fifty-fold increase in the productivity of the MANUAL… — Peter Drucker
Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe. — John Gregory Dunne
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… — Mary Ellen Chase
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… — Brian Ferneyhough
Put aside your need for a step-by-step manual and instead realize that analogies are your best friend. — Seth Godin
The most difficult book I have ever read was a manual on the use of iron bangles by A.J. Thompson. — Spike Milligan
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… — Benedict of Nursia
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
Traditional corporations, particularly large-scale service and manufacturing businesses are organized for efficiency. Or consistency. But not joy. Joy comes from surprise and connection and humanity… — Seth Godin
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… — Eric Allin Cornell
Leafing through Forbes or Fortune [magazine]s is like reading the operating manual of a strangely sanctimonious pirate ship — Adam Gopnik
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. — Donald A. Norman
Exploring Feelings for Young Children with High-Functioning Autism or Asperger's Disorder: The STAMP Treatment Manual offers practical recommendations and creative practices that will certainly help… — Liane Holliday Willey
The Kama Sutra is neither exclusively a sex manual nor, as also commonly used art, a sacred or religious work. It is certainly not a… — Indra Sinha
Om Schooled is the perfect manual for anyone who wants to start teaching yoga to kids. This is not just a theoretical book—it is a… — Sharon Gannon
I meditate because evolution gave me a big brain, but it didn't come with an instruction manual. I meditate because life is too short and… — Wes Nisker
The Constitution is an equally forthright piece of work and quite succinct ... giving the complete operating instructions for a nation of 250 million people.… — P.J. O'Rourke
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

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