Physical Work Quotes

At first I had some idea that the absence of color made the work more physical. Early on I was very involved with the notion of the painting as an object and tended to attack that idea from different directions.

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.

There was a time when you could make a living by the sweat of your brow. Those days are over!

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

I'm a physical type of actor and love projects in which I can get physical. The more action, the better.

Writing is the hardest physical work there is.

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.

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

I have always regarded manual labour as creative and looked with respect-and, yes, wonder-at people who work with their hands. It seems to me that their creativity is no less than that of a violinist or painter.

Dad was a machinist who had to work hard - harder than any man I have ever known.

My first job was as a day laborer on the construction of the Long Island Expressway more than 50 years ago.

I like the countryside. I like chopping wood. I'd like to be a carpenter.

I count 'Underworld 4' as my training period for 'Total Recall.' I do think it was hard because I didn't realize how tired I was. It is quite a lot to sustain that kind of physical work over nine months altogether and by the end of it, I definitely felt like I had aged quite a bit in that year.

I look for the ability to work. Directing is hard work. They don't teach you that in film school. Critics are not aware of it, but it is hard, physical work.

But I was also doing odd jobs around Portland, like spreading gravel and transplanting bamboo trees.

I love being hands-on.

I'd rather do manual labor than sit behind a desk. And as my grandparents got older, I'd fly out there and help out around the farm. We'd tear barns down; we'd build barns. I'd rather be outside rolling hay or driving the tractors.

It is labor that keeps the strong man strong. And spiritual labor, toil and burden-bearing, is what will give strength to the church of Christ.

Which of us?is to do the hard and dirty work for the restand for what pay? Who is to do the pleasant and clean work, and for what pay?

I feel that opiates - I include opium and all its derivatives, such as morphine, heroin, pantopon, etc. - are quite useless for any sort of creative work, useful though they may be for routine work. Much of the hard physical work in the Far East is done by opium addicts.

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.

The hand of little employment hath the daintier sense.

We think work with the brain is more worthy than work with the hands. Nobody who thinks with his hands could ever fall for this.

Playing golf is not hot work. Cutting sugar cane for a dollar a day - that's hot work. Hotter than my first wrist watch.

My hands were too soft.. I had to find some special occupation, some kind of work that would not force me to turn away from the sky and the stars, that would allow me to discover the meaning of life.