Manual Skill Quotes

Design is something you have to put your hand to.

I don't know how to knit.

These fingers of mine got brains in 'em.

He does it with his hands, by experience, first in play and then through work. The hands are the instruments of man's intelligence.

Let me not forget the use of my own hands, that of a craftsman with eyes... that reflect the technology around me.

Not causing trouble, not touching anything, fixing the primus.

I am somewhat handicapped in doing things with my hands.

I think with my hands, it was catching a lot of footballs and working with my father during the summer because he would always make me. My father was a bricklayer so I was a helper. My job was to make sure that he had bricks to lay.

Your timing has to be very accurate. I've done a lot of wire work before. I can see that experience makes a big difference.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

My father was a very good craftsman. He made furniture, he made silverware and he had an incredible gift in terms of how you can make something yourself.

We think work with the brain is more worthy than work with the hands. Nobody who thinks with his hands could ever fall for this.

I like to see a good scientific bout by men who know the use of their hands but would rather walk twenty miles than see animals in strife.

The Germans wit is in his fingers.

When you work with your hands, you learn to appreciate how easy it is to earn money talking.

One of the best sleight-of-hand guys I know is a plumber.

His outflung hands traced over the threads of his rug, passed loop by loop through some patient woman's hands. Or maybe she hadn't been patient. Maybe she'd been tired, or irritated, or distracted, or hungry, or angry. Maybe she had been dying. But her hands had kept moving, all the same.

I like manual things, doing things with my hands, the feeling of touching.

All creative work begins by doing something with the hands. Creation is simply a problem and design is the way out.

The hands are the instruments of man’s intelligence.

It is no use asking me or anyone else how to dig... Better to go and watch a man digging, and then take a spade and try to do it.

I can't hold a camera anymore.

I have a kind of old-fashioned, artisan approach.

I've tried, in periods of unemployment, to pick up a paintbrush.

150 years ago in [Charles] Dickens's time there was at least a sense of craft. So some of the things people had inside of them, they had the possibility of expressing in the making of things - even in a daily way with their clothes or their food. People made a good deal of both themselves. Now our daily lives are almost all consumption. Craft plays a tiny role.