Daniel Radcliffe Quotes

If you move furniture all day, if you're a construction worker, if you have a job that's real physical, this idea that there is a sport that involves the kind of conventional, traditional view of toughness, you see that still as a positive thing.

It felt good doing a physical job, and going home each evening feeling like I had really done a day's work.

A labourer cannot sit at the table and write, but a man who has worked at the table all his life can certainly take to physical labour.

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor

When I was 14, and for the next four years, I was lifting and hauling 10-gallon milk cans full of milk. That will put muscles on you even if you're not trying.

And what we've lost sight of is that performing manual labor with your hands is one of the most incredibly satisfying and positive things you can do.

I class myself as a manual laborer.

A lot of what we do at Fox is blue-collar stuff.

I like physical jobs. I like moving my body around. I like testing it. Lets you feel like you've done something.

I worked in a chicken factory, in a steel foundry, I worked on the bins for a year or so. It started as a summer job, but I stayed on because I liked it very much. I liked it that it made you very fit, doing all the lifting and that, so I could wear short-sleeved t-shirts, which I'd never been able to do before!

I like working with my hands, need to do that more often.

I like being outside and I like hard work.

The problem with Hollywood is that nobody works. They have meals. They go to Pilates. But it's not enough. So they do drugs. If everybody had a pile of rocks in their backyard and spent every day moving them from one side of the yard to the other, it would be a much happier place.

Believe me, the man who earns his bread by the sweat of his brow, eats oftener a sweeter morsel, however coarse, than he who procures it by the labor of his brains.

I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

The duty of labor is written on a man's body: in the stout muscle of the arm,, and the delicate machinery of the hand.

When I was 17 - 16, my father and I cut wood all day long and I was swinging that crosscut saw and hauling wood.

I never liked to work, I mean manual work.

But labor of the hands, even when pursued to the verge of drudgery, is perhaps never the worst form of idleness. It has a constantand imperishable moral, and to the scholar it yields a classic result.

Health lies in labor, and there is no royal road to it but through toil.

Who remove stones, bruise their fingers.

Nothing a man writes can please him as profoundly as something he does with his back, shoulders and hands. For writing is an artificial activity. It is a lonely and private substitute for conversation.

People I grew up with, my family, work in the oil fields. Everyone works a labor job - construction, concrete. All we know is work. It's a physical culture.

I'm from the country. All I've even done was use my hands. I guess that's how I've strengthened them over the years.

When you wrestle for 15 years, you don't want to go back to driving that forklift.