Yorgos Lanthimos Quotes

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.

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

I like dirty boys. Mechanics, construction workers, artists who get paint and clay everywhere. They gotta have rough hands.

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'd rather break stones on the king's highway than hem a handkerchief.

Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.

I class myself as a manual laborer.

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

I did a lot of heavy-lifting - construction, demolition, that kind of thing. Dusty, dirty work.

I don't like to overthink. I tackle situations and problems head-on.

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.

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

The man who is ... physically able to handle pig-iron and is sufficiently ... stupid to choose this for his occupation is rarely able to comprehend the science of handling pig-iron

I never liked to work, I mean manual work.

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.

I really enjoy working physically.

Tools were made and born were hands, Every farmer understands.

There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade, for learned as well as for unlearned hands. And labor is everywhere welcome; alwayswe are invited to work.

I don't like to wonder about it-I just like to do it. That's what I mean about the image stuff and all that. There's far too much emphasis being placed on that kind of stuff... the whole emphasis on what does it mean? Everybody has their own particular vision.

[Professional engineers] must for years abandon their white collars except for Sunday.

In all important respects, the man who has nothing but his physical power to sell has nothing to sell which it is worth anyone's money to buy

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.

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

All my experiments in Ahimsa have taught me that nonviolence in practice means common labour with the body.