Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
I tend to detach myself from movies once I'm done shooting them, because after that, it's in the hands of God. And it doesn't help if I panic.
As a parent, I tell my boys to keep away their smartphones and go outdoors and play. I take them to our farm where my father does a bit of farming, where they get their hands dirty. It is their digital detox.
Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child.
In many ways, the Internet is about diversification, and yet, in the wrong hands, the digital world can use those very examples to reinforce the narrowest of perspectives.
There's a strong body of evidence that shows that the more diligent we are in ensuring that guns are in the appropriate hands, the safer our communities will be.
There's an incomparable rush that comes from finding dinosaur bones. You know you're the first person to lay hands on a critter that lived 80 or 90 million years ago.
I like doing things where I can get dirty, work with my hands, and use power tools. Last weekend, I did some grouting.
The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the words.
If you disarm someone's hands - they cannot kill you!
It's so inspiring to be able to look a child in the eyes and just shake their hands and see the disbelief that this is actually happening.
As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
There were two mentalities, and both mentalities had to change. There was what I called the Afrikaner mind set of the Unionist politicians, which was holding all power in their own hands, and discriminating, and their objective was to protect their identity.
We can't continue to sit on our hands and sit idly by as people are being brutalized, disenfranchised, and left out of the system.
I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.
Kids get bored easily. They have got to get out and get their hands dirty: make things, dismantle things, fix things.
Engineering stimulates the mind. Kids get bored easily. They have got to get out and get their hands dirty: make things, dismantle things, fix things. When the schools can offer that, you'll have an engineer for life.
Grace is thickly counter-intuitive. It feels risky and unfair. It's dangerous and disorderly. It wrestles control out of our hands. It is wild and unsettling. It turns everything that makes sense to us upside-down and inside-out.
But the disparaging of those we love always alienates us from them to some extent. We must not touch our idols; the gilt comes off in our hands.
When it was suggested that I write a memoir I said, 'I'm not old enough. I'm not distinguished enough.' But I went home and sat down to write, and the material for the book just came flooding into my hands.
