mechanical work Quotes

There's a great deal of poetry in working out how things work, cutting bits of metal, trying to mend stuff.

I've always worked on the machines, especially the 125 and 250 which are really difficult to set up.

I worked my way through art school as an auto mechanic, doing various stuff including sanding bodywork and using Bondo filler.

DIY, cricket, automobile repair. I could study it for a lifetime and not produce a word on the carburettor.

Don't get discouraged because there's a lot of mechanical work to writing. I rewrote the first part of Farewell to Arms at least fifty times.

When I was little, I used to work with my dad on the engine of his car. Mostly this was a matter of me handing him wrenches.

It's just that fun atmosphere, working on the car, being with the guys. This is exactly what I needed.

I worked in the mechanical factories repairing cement trucks. The Cuban government wanted me to work in the university as a teacher in literature, but I declined because I wanted a more sense of the countryside.

I didn't really want deadlines and editorial work. I wanted something mechanical and eight hours a day. So I went to work, thinking it was easy - ha, ha - on the complaint desk at the circulation department.

It's fun to work the robotic arm in part because it's really a team effort.

If I wasn't a writer, I would probably be a watchmaker. I like putting puzzles together, and that is what a watch is, figuring out how all the gears and everything else works together. I'm patient and good at focusing on a single task.

I've always worked on my own home and different places that I've owned. I really enjoyed it. But I'm a mechanic, a motorcycle and car builder.

Press the button, pump the water, build the pressure, push the piston, press the button. It's the perfect job.

Stuckness shouldn't be avoided. It's the psychic predecessor of all real understanding. An egoless acceptance of stuckness is a key to an understanding of all Quality, in mechanical work as in other endeavors.

I just write mechanical things.

That soul-destroying, meaningless, mechanical, moronic work is an insult to human nature which must necessarily and inevitably produce either escapism or aggression, and that no amount of 'bread and circuses' can compensate for the damage done-these are facts which are neither denied nor acknowledged but are met with an unbreakable conspiracy of silence-because to deny them would be too obviously absurd and to acknowledge them would condemn the central preoccupation of modern society as a crime against humanity.

I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.

I'm not the hottest tuner on the planet, so I normally get someone to come out and do it for me.

Positive social awareness among the South African educated half-caste is zero. Teaching is a mechanical job. The best way of earning a living.

I enjoy working on anything mechanical.

In speaking of the work of machines and of natural forces we must, of course, in this comparison eliminate anything in which activity of intelligence comes into play. The latter is also capable of the hard and intense work of thinking, which tries a man just as muscular exertion does.

I was going to go be an auto mechanic.

A situation in a public office is secure, but laborious and mechanical, and without the great springs of life, hope and fear.

Heat can also be produced by the impact of imperfectly elastic bodies as well as by friction. This is the case, for instance, when we produce fire by striking flint against steel, or when an iron bar is worked for some time by powerful blows of the hammer.