I don't remember the first picture I took, but I actually found a picture of myself on a trip back to my old family home in Malaysia. I'm five years old, sitting on the floor with the family camera in my hand. It was a film camera - not a DSLR - with a fixed lens and a nice manual zoom.
I didn't know much about computers. I still worked on a manual Olivetti typewriter.
Read something of interest every day - something of interest to you, not to your teacher or your best friend or your minister/rabbi/priest. Comics count. So does poetry. So do editorials in your school newspaper. Or a biography of a rock star. Or an instructional manual. Or the Bible.
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 am on the power toothbrush train and I'm asking people to try to using an Oral B power toothbrush. I just started using one and I cannot believe that I waited this long to use a power toothbrush. It's so much easier than using a manual toothbrush.
A perfect poem you can't pin down and say, 'This is exactly what it meant to me.' It's not a self-help manual.
I am an earnest advocate of manual training and trade teaching for black boys, and for white boys, too.
I'm self-taught and emailed photographers I knew if I had questions I couldn't figure out from the manual or online.
My first love was, and remains, manual labor; sowing and harvesting, the pastures, the flock, and the cattle.
Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner's manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage.
When you audition for 'Quantico,' they have the academy application manual and maps of the base in the waiting room. So right from the start, they have you doing research, which I thought was cool.
I used to fall into the trap of thinking that taking care of my husband and kids was more important than taking care of myself. Now I have a new attitude: You know when you're on an airplane and the manual tells you to put on your oxygen mask first and then help the person next to you? I feel the same way about my health.
Keep it simple, stupid. Good game design shouldn't keep you looking at the manual but should have enough depth where you feel like you bring something new to the game every time you play.
I'm driving my dad's old ute. So it's a manual ute. It's massive, so when people see me coming, they just kind of run away!
I worked full time jobs, basically doing manual labor until I could make enough money supporting myself as a musician.
Every decade needs its own manual of handicraft.
