Delicate Handling Quotes

If we were handling a bomb which could go off at any minute as a result of our actions, we would mind ourselves and be delicate. Our words have the same power, yet we wield them around as though they were powerless and insignificant.

One must ease the public into it - that's an art in itself.

A light, tender, sensitive touch is worth a ton of brawn.

They should not be knocked down with a bludgeon. They should have their threats cut with a feather.

Football is like a religion to me. I worship the ball, and I treat it like a god. Too many players think of a football as something to kick. They should be taught to caress it and to treat it like a precious gem.

I believe managing is like holding a dove in your hand. If you hold it too tightly you kill it, but if you hold it too loosely, you lose it.

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

Ever try to hold a butterfly? It can't be done. You damage them," he said. 'As gentle as you try to be, you take the powder from their wings and they won't ever fly the same. It's kinder to let them go.

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it.

You should treat a muse like a fairy.

The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.

Good teachers don't approach a child of this age with overzealousness or with destructive conscientiousness. They're not drill-masters in the military or floor managers in a production system. They are specialists in opening small packages. They give the string a tug but do it carefully. They don't yet know what's in the box. They don't know if it's breakable.

'Silence,' I think, was the hardest, because it's so different from everything we've done before and required very delicate handling and trying to find the right meditative pace.

If only the good were a little less heavy-footed

I think sometimes you have to handle things delicately at work or at home. You know, you can find yourself in situations that are like opening a closet filled with bowling balls that are going to fall out of it, but if you handle things graciously, then that's not going to happen.

Let gentleness my strong enforcement be.

I would treat her like an egg, the shell of which we remove before eating it; I would take off her mask and then kiss her pretty face.

That day I carried the dream around like a full glass of water, moving gracefully so I would not lose any of it.

Use absolutely no pressure. Just like an angel's wing.

Something about the way she moves through the world does not lend itself to the care of fragile objects.

When you collect marine animals there are certain flat worms so delicate that they are almost impossible to capture whole, for they break and tatter under the touch. You must let them ooze and crawl of their own will onto a knife blade and then lift them gently into your bottle of sea water. And perhaps that might be the way to write this book — to open the page and let the stories crawl in by themselves.

Some delicate matters must be treated like pins, because if they are not seized by the right end, we get pricked.

The best way to killing a rose is to force it open when it is still only the promise of a bud.

It's fine, precise, detailed work, the infinitely small motor management of diamond cutters and safecrackers that we do in our heads.

Don't bruise the Foo!