That almost every brain-worker would be the better for abstinence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Study and Stimulants; Or, the Use of Intoxicants and Narcotics in Relation to Intellectual Life] Reference

The utmost that a persistent brain-worker of this century can do is to keep himself bodily up to mental requirements.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866] Reference

Then, again, the doctors, it was urged, had discovered that tea was the best stimulant for the athlete and for the brain-worker.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manners and Social Usages] Reference

This simple diet suits both the brain-worker and the athlete, though each will have to make a selection of those foods most required by him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Papers on Health] Reference

Hence, the forces of the brain-worker, being required for mental exertion, should not be expended to an unwarranted extent on the task of digestion.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Practical Physiology] Reference

The writer and brain-worker will do best, as a rule, on little butcher meat, taking chiefly fish, eggs, and light milk foods, with vegetables and fruits.    From Wordnik.com.  [Papers on Health] Reference

He imagines that publishers and booksellers should keep all their engagements with him to the letter; — but that he, as a brain-worker, and conscious of the subtle nature of the brain, should be able to exempt himself from bonds when it suits him.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Autobiography] Reference

"I am getting very tired," said a hard brain-worker to me once.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nature's Serial Story] Reference

Woe to the brain-worker who allows himself to fall entirely from thought into revery!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Les Misérables] Reference

Complete rest, for instance, for a hard brain-worker hardly ought to be recommended unless.    From Wordnik.com.  [Psychotherapy] Reference

If a man is a hand-worker or brain-worker, his fate is inevitable if he regards work as the only end of life.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour] Reference

What is it that makes the brain-worker just as dependent in the intellectual realm as the artisan in the material world?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 1, March 1906] Reference

His irritability, though it might have been comprehensible to an urban brain-worker, was an amazing thing to these quiet Sussex villagers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Invisible Man] Reference

If you are really a brain-worker, will you kindly inform the writer whose brain you are working now, and how you like it as far as you have gone?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Remarks] Reference

A fine intoxication comes to every brain-worker when the world acknowledges with tangible remittances that the product of his mind has a value on the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors] Reference

A fine intoxication comes to every brain-worker when the world acknowledges with tangible remittances that the product of his mind has a value on the Rialto.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great]

Books are the tools of the brain-worker all the world over; but, unlike the file and the chisel, the needle and the hammer, books not only create, but suggest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Progress and History] Reference

On the other hand, I have reached as a brain-worker the conclusion that, while my head is different in substance from a man's, I get most work out of it when I copy a man's mental methods.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Joys of Being a Woman and Other Papers] Reference

And the brain-worker may exhaust and overbalance his mind by excess, just as the athlete may overstrain his muscles and break his back by attempting feats beyond the strength of his physical system.    From Wordnik.com.  [Character] Reference

And, seriously now, where did Mr.D. ever get his superb athletic training, because, oh! how all too rare it is to see a brain-worker of strong mentality and a splendid athlete in one and the same man.    From Wordnik.com.  [Somewhere in Red Gap] Reference

It is now beginning to be recognized, however, that in a childless union, the "fault," if fault it be, is as often the man's as the woman's, particularly where the husband is a brain-worker in a city.    From Wordnik.com.  [Married Love: or, Love in Marriage] Reference

Mr. Dixon was a gaunt, worn-looking man of fifty or so, well, although rather carelessly, dressed, and carrying in his strong, though drawn, face and dullish eyes the look that characterizes the life-long strenuous brain-worker.    From Wordnik.com.  [Martin Hewitt, Investigator] Reference

One point emerges very clearly from the murky chaos of the industrial situation to-day; and that is that the brain-worker will not for ever be content to be merely a brain-worker, thinking and thinking, hour after hour, day after day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-05-12] Reference

He imagines that publishers and booksellers should keep all their engagements with him to the letter; -- but that he, as a brain-worker, and conscious of the subtle nature of the brain, should be able to exempt himself from bonds when it suits him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autobiography of Anthony Trollope] Reference

And had to get up to meet a work deadline at 0930 (I work at home, one of the accommodations I make for my disability, and one of the huge privileges I have in having acquired the skills to be a brain-worker), and the phone just kept ringing all day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shakesville] Reference

The portrait bears one of the many testimonies which exist to Mr. Watts's grasp of the essential of character, for it is the only one of the portraits of Browning in which we get primarily the air of virility, even of animal virility, tempered but not disguised, with a certain touch of the pallor of the brain-worker.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Browning] Reference

If she endears herself to her husband, he will feel not only the attraction but the duty of her vacant hours; he will not only deflect his working hours from the effective to the profitable, but that occasional burning of the midnight oil, that no brain-worker may forego if he is to retain his efficiency, will, in the interests of some attractive theatrical performance or some agreeable social occasion, all too frequently have to be put off or abandoned.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anticipations Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human life and Thought] Reference

He imagines that publishers and booksellers should keep all their engagements with him to the letter; ” but that he, as a brain-worker, and conscious of the subtle nature of the brain, should be able to exempt himself from bonds when it suits him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autobiography of Anthony Trollope]

The tired brain-worker doesn't want to stop.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say] Reference

It's another brain-worker.    From Wordnik.com.  [PW FULL RSS FEED] Reference

It was to be the wife of some busy brain-worker -- man of science -- conspirator -- writer -- artist -- architect, if you like; to fence him round and shield him from all the little worries and troubles and petty vexations of life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peter Ibbetson] Reference

We perceive, in fact, that the only matter upon which any worker, other than the artist, can congratulate himself, whether he be manual-worker, brain-worker, surgeon, judge, or politician, is that he is helping to make the world tolerable for the artist.    From Wordnik.com.  [If I May] Reference

It is because the worker as well as the agriculturist, the labourer on the farm as well as he in the shops, and like the brain-worker too, have all understood with Gabriel Hanotaux, that there is no such thing as degrading Labour, that, in fact, there are no categories of Labour at all: manual labour, intellectual labour, practical labour, everything that means assiduity, tension, and victory over matter is upon the same plane.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quebec of Yesterday and Quebec of Tomorrow] Reference