So what I propose is that you go old-skool on the whole "hands-on" thing.
Brown says the latter -- "it's more abstract...as Mayor you're dealing with cops, criminals, and developers...more of a hands-on thing...as governor, you are in a capital, but the capital is everywhere".
Isaacson concludes, somewhat rashly, that Salaì (in his late thirties) "lived up to his reputation as a sticky-fingered little devil, one who was somehow able to get his hands on things".
We have decades of research in child development and neuroscience that tell us that young children learn actively — they have to move, use their senses, get their hands on things, interact with other kids and teachers, create, invent.
The newspaper The Star quoted Mr. Bizos as saying that Mr. Mandela's daughters "wanted to get their hands on things that should not be sold and the money in the companies".
I need to put my hands on things and really see them, and really chew on them.
If that is what they believe, then they will be surprised when they find that this consumer generation wants to get their hands on things that money can't buy".
Man, people used to put their hands on things like axe handles, bales of hay, ears of corn, and good old fashioned dirt things of the earth.
It was the latest in a long line of long lines of people waiting to get their hands on things that aren't water, food, or medicine.
