Sentence examples for knack for figuring out from inspiring English sources

A high-school dropout and drop-in, Mr. Navas had a knack for figuring out how things worked.

Children, however, can be savvy gamers, and Brees may have fallen victim to the youngsters' knack for "figuring out" the secrets to games.

When he believes somebody can do something, he just tells them, 'You can do this, and you're doing to do it.' " Cameron also has a knack for figuring out easy fixes to other gymnasts' problems.

He has a knack for figuring out when Mr. Romney is feeling disconnected from headquarters and should be looped in on a conference call, or when he needs a break in his tight schedule.

Jeremiah Wright, scholar and preacher and political activist, was also a successful entrepreneur, with a knack for figuring out his congregants' needs, both pastoral and rhetorical, and meeting them, though not always in expected ways.

But my mother, a veteran personal shopper who has always had a knack for figuring out just who to call to solve consumer mysteries of all sorts, knew someone who knew someone.

Like many smart kids that end up in engineering, Clay was born with a knack for math and science, and a general intuition for figuring out how stuff works.

"It's made me who I am, and given me a knack for figuring people out".

Calling Garrett "a major figure in survey research," Henry Brady, director of the center, called her death "a great loss to social science research". "Karen had an extraordinary knack for helping researchers figure out what they really wanted to do, and for guiding them to see what they should do," Brady said.

For anyone who enjoys (or has a knack for) planning, organizing a hackathon is not terribly difficult: it's a matter of understanding your goals, assessing needs, and figuring out how to bridge the two.

Yet he had an intuitive knack that enabled him to figure out almost anything.