Quotes About Coordination

I try to keep my shoes as clean as possible and make them complement the fit.

Shooting a film with seven to eight actors together is complicated sometimes because you have to cover everybody.

I've always been accused of moving around too much when I play concertos. Sometimes, conductors ask me which of us is leading.

If everything is a little baggy, then everything will look sloppy when you layer one piece on top of another. Your sport coat should easily fit over a shirt and a fine-gauge sweater.

To play sweep arpeggios correctly, you have to mute each note with the left hand immediately after picking it.

Some people are a natural administrator. They actually enjoy doing it. I find it a chore. I'm not a details person. I go for the big sweep.

Every team needs goalscorers, attacking players, players who can sweep up the ball, but every team needs that someone who can be the link between defence and attack. The greatest teams always have that sort of player.

I think I learned how to swim before I could walk.

Swing is extreme coordination. It's a maintaining balance, equilibrium. It's about executing very difficult rhythms with a panache and a feeling in the context of very strict time. So, everything about the swing is about some guideline and some grid and the elegant way that you negotiate your way through that grid.

When I was a kid, we played a jump rope game called double Dutch - where you had to jump over two ropes swinging in opposite directions. Picking just the right moment to jump in was a practiced art form.

It's very hard to do that many things at the same time - having to dance and sing and be on a horse with a sword. It does get quite confusing.

Definitely an important aspect of my playing is keeping my hands in sync.

It is hard to create community when the sheer number of options generate a system in which no one is in the same place at the same time.

Creation is much in need of ordering.

The best way to do the job, Polanyi argued, was to allow each worker to keep track of what every other worker was doing.

a baby's failure to reach for an object hidden under a blanket does not support the rather dramatic conclusion that the baby thinks the object has ceased to exist. Perhaps he simply does not yet have sufficient hand-arm coordination to reach for a hidden object. In fact, we now know that this explanation is correct. Recent experiments, more sophisticated than Piaget's, indicate that even very young babies have a well-developed sense of object permanency.

It was astonishing, the visitors said, the way all the white men worked together and set up the road so quickly, each man like a limb of a hundred-legged bug, each doing just what was needed at the right moment. A small thing for each man, but when it was done right, the bug scooted fast. Crazy

Today the formation of God's people into an army is a matter of coordination, which is based on three matters: life, maturity, and confirmation. These three matters must be fulfilled in order for God's people to be properly formed, which is to be properly coordinated. (CWWL, 1960, vol. 1, "Synopsis of Numbers," p. 71)

Her arms and legs were incapable of working in unison toward a single goal, they couldn't all follow the same directions at once. Sasha pressed Sonia's arms and legs together and called her name a few times, as though the name could bring harmony to her limbs.

Fingers and Thumbs

Since any muscle cell will eventually reach a state of exhaustion—a depletion of available ATP—if it is kept constantly firing and working, one of the primary tasks of neuromuscular coordination is to maintain this overall tension set without exhausting any one cell. This is accomplished by a firing pattern called asynchronous stimulation, which alternates the working tonus contraction from motor unit to motor unit, so that some are always engaged while others are resting.

It is the very essence of intelligence to coordinate means with a view to a remote end, and to undertake what it does not feel absolutely sure of carrying out.

The same intelligence is required to marshal an army in battle and to order a good dinner. The first must be as formidable as possible, the second as pleasant as possible, to the participants.

We are all in this together. We want to have, I suppose, a single point of entry so that anyone coming near a disability service can get a very complete picture. Government needs to understand that picture, and we need to be able to offer somebody a one-stop shop.