Nell Scovell Quotes

People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.

I am very hands on doing my own work, all my own stunt work.

I work very physically. I don't like to intellectualize too much about what we're doing, or analyze it.

If there is some profound method that offers a quick way, we would rather follow that than undertake arduous journeys and difficult practices. But some manual work and physical effort is necessary.

I'm a massive fan of the Stones, and I don't think anybody should deny them the right to carry on making music. I just wish they wouldn't wear leggings.

You get the job done or you don't.

When a job is to be done there's no use putting it off.

Working with my hands keeps me sane.

Research can become Resistance. We want to work, not prepare to work.

Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.

Here is a hero who did nothing but shake the tree as soon as the fruit was ripe. Does this seem to be too small a thing to you? Then take a good look at the tree he shook.

Just begin and the mind grows heated; continue, and the task will be completed!

I don't wait for moods - you'd never get anything done if you did.

I look for what needs to be done

Who remove stones, bruise their fingers.

Working with people on a field turns me on.

Don't put off for tomorrow what you can do today because if you enjoy it today, you can do it again tomorrow.

Don't diddle the dose. Once you have done your homework, go for it.

Everyone should get dirt on his hands each day. Doctors, intellectuals. Politicians, most of all. How can we presume to uplift the life of the working man, if we don't respect his work?

Walking itself is the intentional act closest to the unwilled rhythms of the body, to breathing and the beating of the heart. It strikes a delicate balance between working and idling, being and doing. It is a bodily labor that produces nothing but thoughts, experiences, arrivals.

It is a sad thing that our schoolboys look upon manual labour with disfavour, if not contempt.

Whatever can be done another day can be done today.

He who puts off nothing till tomorrow has done a great deal.

I act when I’m not in the mood.

Rock & roll mostly is a very butch thing, and it appeals to one hard side of the masculine character. But I don't think the Rolling Stones are only a rock band. They can be other things. They can be very feminine.