Manuals Quotes - Page 11

• I write exclusively using computers. Pens and typewriters can fsck right off - I wrote my first half million words in my teens on a manual typewriter (had to trade it for a new one due to keys snapping from metal fatigue) so I am not a pen or typewriter fetishist.

  Charles Stross

  Writing, Keys, Typewriters

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

  Seth Godin

  Needs, Analogies, Steps

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

  Scott Adams

  Death, Suicide, Serial Killer

  Scott Adams (2007). “Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More”, p.440, Penguin

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• We have no paupers ... The great mass of our [United States] population is of laborers; our rich, who can live without labor, either manual or professional, being few, and of moderate wealth. Most of the laboring class possess property, cultivate their own lands, have families, and from the demand for their labor are enabled to exact from the rich and the competent such prices as enable them to be fed abundantly, clothed above mere decency, to labor moderately and raise their families. ... Can any condition of society be more desirable than this?

  Thomas Jefferson

  Land, Class, Demand

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• Whenever you see some business person quoted complaining about how he or she can't find workers with the necessary skills, ask what wage they're offering.
  Almost always it turns out what said business person really wants is highly (and expensively) educated workers at a manual-labor wage. No wonder they come up short.

  Paul Krugman

  Skills, Offering, Complaining

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• Acting for me, is a passion, but it's also a job, and I've always approached it as such. I have a certain manual-laborist view of acting. There's no shame in taking a film because you need some money.

  James Spader

  Jobs, Passion, Views

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Steve Schirripa

  Mistake, Kids, Way

  Steve Schirripa (2014). “Big Daddy's Rules: Raising Daughters Is Tougher Than I Look”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• You can read a dozen different textbooks or how-to manuals that will tell you the basic rules of what makes a story - a beginning, a middle, and an end.

  Len Wein

  Different, Lenses, Textbooks

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• I've got a Range Rover. It's brilliant actually but it's manual.

  Mick Ralphs

  Brilliant, Range, Brilliant Ideas

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• As the only class distinction available in a democracy, the college degree has created a caste society as rigid as ancient India's. Condemning elitism and simultaneously quaking in fear that our children won't become members of the elite, we send them to college, not to learn, but to "be" college graduates, rationalizing our snobbery with the cliché that high technology has eliminated the need for the manual labor that we secretly hold in contempt.

  Florence King

  Education, Children, Technology

  Florence King (1991). “Lump It Or Leave It”, p.77, Macmillan

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• If you have to have a policy manual, publish the 'Ten Commandments.'

  Robert Townsend

  Policy, Ten Commandments, Publish

  Robert Townsend (1984). “Further Up the Organization”, Random House Incorporated

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• Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.

  A. A. Milne

  Writing, Heart, Ideas

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• A large part of academic community is unthinkingly self-involved, producing reams of sterile writing - often consuming unbelievable amounts of public funds - and serving as an instruction manual for how to chase away readers and ignore historical insights.

  Gotz Aly

  Writing, Self, Community

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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