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Quotes About Hands-on

As a kid, I had my head under the hood of a car, either an old Ford or a Chevrolet, just learning about it so if anything happened, I could repair it.
~ Don Felder
Well, immediately we announced yesterday or the day before we're building, with my foundation, a youth tennis and learning center in Austin. I'd like to be hands on with that and not see it periodically.
~ Andy Roddick
I like having my hands in the clay. I like the movie-making process.
~ Matthew McConaughey
Vidhu Vinod Chopra, who has produced my earlier films, is still a part of 'PK' and is presenting it. He is not a hands-on producer - he used to put a certain amount in the bank and give me the cheque book.
~ Rajkumar Hirani
I'm a very hands-on producer.
~ Marc Platt
My very first records, I was very interested in how you get the particular quality you want out of it, and I began to learn about the engineering and aspects of production and things very early on. I got hands-on with the process and taught myself how to engineer, as opposed to just being a producer who asked the engineer to make it sound nice.
~ Todd Rundgren
People have been declaring stop-motion dead for a generation. But living in the digital age, people appreciate the art of craft, or working with your hands.
~ Travis Knight
People learn more if they're learning in directly engaging ways.
~ Jake Barton
Special Forces were the armed wing of the CIA, which was the hands-on wing of the State Department
~ Lee Child
For sure I would be a very emotional captain. A very hands-on captain.
~ Payne Stewart
Kids get bored easily. They have got to get out and get their hands dirty: make things, dismantle things, fix things.
~ Bruce Dickinson
Aromatherapy is a caring, hands-on therapy which seeks to induce relaxation, to increase energy, to reduce the effects of stress and to restore lost balance to mind, body and soul.
~ Robert Tisserand
There were also the Masters of Arcane Knowledge. Everyone begrudged their presence among the gifteds. These were the kids that could break down an engine and build it back again - no diagrams or instructions needed. They understood things in a real, not theoretical, way. They seemed not to care about their grades.
~ Alice Sebold
His mother taught him mathematics, literature, and language at home during the day. His father taught him German history and world history and culture in the evenings. And whenever he could get away from his factories, Uncle Avi came and took him up into the mountains to hike and to fix things and learn to work with his hands.
~ Joel C. Rosenberg
Hertz's theories are interesting but what he loves most is building things, working with his hands, connecting his fingers to the engine of his mind.
~ Anthony Doerr
I'm really hands-on. My team brings in elements, but, every season, it's kind of a personal struggle to find the balance and to see how far I want to push the elements.
~ Dries van Noten
I found working in the lab is so completely different than reading a textbook about it. You know, you're planning strategies; you're working with your own hands. There's essential satisfaction in running experiments.
~ Eric Kandel
The hour has arrived to abandon theories and go directly to what is practical.
~ Samael Aun Weor
I've got that hands-on experience with federal judges and how important it is to have judges like Neil Gorsuch, who will take a rule-of-law approach to the decision-making process. I think he's eminently qualified.
~ Luther Strange
Any security issues, you have to be very hands on to really understand what's the exact problem, and then take quick action.
~ Eric Yuan
I got involved in script development from the beginning. It was nice to see how a film gets made right from the beginning. It was quite hands-on for me.
~ Dougray Scott
I think it's really important to use your hands and get close to materials. To be up close to real things like rain and mud; to have contact with nature.
~ Robin Day
I feel like nowadays everyone perceives you the same way. You can't even have a private life away from your family; it's like everything is very hands-on!
~ Kristen Stewart
The backstage stuff is not for everybody. I'm very hands on; I like to train and teach young guys now because there's so many of them. There are certain ways to do things, to get crowd reactions and sell your emotions and sell stories.
~ Goldust