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“Never, in these United States, has the brain of man conceived, or the hand of man fashioned, so perfect a thing as a clipper ship.”

Men States Hands Perfect United Brain United States Ships

Book:The Maritime History of Massachusetts

Source: The Maritime History of Massachusetts

“If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Nature's part that she did not mean him to be a head worker.”

Ifs Men Kind Mean Hands Turns Brain Workers Working It Indication Stimulants

Book:Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley

Source: Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley

“The hand can be quicker than the eye, and the mouth can be quicker than the brain.”

Hands Eye Brain Mouths

Author:Ashleigh Brilliant

“Ignisecond, n.: The overlapping moment of time when the hand is locking the car door even as the brain is saying, "my keys are in there!"”

Moments Hands Brain Doors Car Keys Overlapping

Author:Rich Hall

“Artwork is not thought up in consciousness and then, as a separate phase, executed by the hand. The hand surprises us creates and solves problems on its own. Often, enigmas that baffle our brains are dealt with easily, unconsciously, by the hand.”

Problem Hands Brain Consciousness Surprise Solve Phases Artwork Enigma

Book:Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art

Source: Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art

“With all its technical sophistication, the photographic camera remains a coarse device compared to the human hand and brain.”

Humans Hands Brain Cameras Remains Devices Sophistication Coarse Human Hands

Author:Claude Levi-Strauss

“You can see that the care he took defiling the beauty he had forced in them was as precise and clean as his good hands which at night had developed the negatives, floating the sheets in the correct acids and watching the faces and breasts and pubic triangles and sofas emerge. The making and destroying coming from the same source, same lust, same surgery his brain was capable of. (On New Orleans photographer E. J. Bellocq)”

Hands Care Faces Night Brain Source Capable Clean Photographer Lust Breasts Destroying Surgery Precise Sheets Floating New Orleans Acid Sofas Triangles

Book:Coming Through Slaughter

Source: Coming Through Slaughter

“My friend taught me this one. You take the heel of your hand, you can shove someone's nose right through their brain. I can't even watch someone blow their nose. If I'm in a fight, I'm not gonna be shoving or poking, I'm gonna be running or begging - that's my two choices, right there.”

Ifs I Can Two Hands Running Choices Fighting Brain Watches Taught My Friends Blow Noses Heels Begging Two Choices

Author:Andy Kindler

“Neuroplasticity research showed that the brain changes its very structure with each different activity it performs, perfecting its circuits so it is better suited to the task at hand.”

Different Hands Brain Activity Research Tasks Structure Circuits Neuroplasticity Task At Hand

Author:Naveen Jain

“There is a lovable quality about the actual tools. One feels so kindly to the thing that enables the hand to obey the brain. Moreover, one feels a good deal of respect for it; without it the brain and the hand would be helpless.”

Feels Feelings Hands Would Be Deals Brain Quality Respect Garden Tools Fingers Touching Helpless Lovable Jekyll

Book:Home and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Worker in Both

Source: Home and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Worker in Both

“I grew up with very hands-on jobs. I was raised on a farm and taught to work hard. In this high-tech, high-speed society, somewhere along the line, we got the message that if we're not a brain surgeon or an astronaut, we really shouldn't be proud of ourselves.”

Ifs Hard Hands Jobs Lines Brain Taught Hard Work Grew Proud Messages Grew Up Raised Speed Farms Be Proud Astronaut Surgeons High Speed Brain Surgeons

Author:Aaron Tippin

“Having a good idea is one thing, but persuading other people to buy it is quite another. Good inventors are polymaths: they think with their hands and their brains. They're experts in design, engineering and business.”

People Thinking Ideas Hands Brain One Thing Design Experts Good Ideas Engineering Inventor Persuading Polymaths

Author:James Dyson

“I definitely feel that my brain works differently, and words come out differently, if I have a pencil in my hand, rather than if I have a keyboard.”

Ifs Feels Hands Brain Pencils Keyboards

Author:Lily King