Quotes About Quickness

#1. In quickness is truth. The more swiftly you write, the more honest you are. In hesitation is thought. In delay comes the effort for a style, instead of leaping upon truth which is the only style worth deadfalling or tiger-trapping.

Ray Bradbury

#2. There is a quickness of perception in some, a nicety in the discernment of character, a natural penetration, in short, which no experience in others can equal ...

Jane Austen

#3. We - we need strength, we need energy, we need quickness and we need brain in this country to turn it around.

Donald Trump

#4. In seventh grade I gradually became aware that that quickness of feeling was something I was supposed to have outgrown. I was rather guileless, I think, or at least I was when it came to the people I cared about.

Kevin Brockmeier

#5. There is nothing staid, nothing settled, in this universe. All is ripling,
all is dancing; all is quickness and triumph.

Virginia Woolf

#6. What we view as God's absence or lack of quickness to change our circumstances or fix our problems is really God waiting for the proper time to act on our behalf, while simultaneously waiting for us to acknowledge our need for rescue.

Tracie Miles

#7. Domestic work is the most elementary form of labor. It is suitable for those with the intelligence of rabbits. All it requires is cleanlines, tidiness and quickness - not moral or intellectual qualities at all, but merely the outward and visible signs of health.

Rebecca West

#8. Digital for storage and quickness. Analog for fatness and warmth.

Adrian Belew

#9. I have no great quickness of apprehension or wit which is so remarkable in some clever men, for instance Huxley

Charles Darwin

#10. The same quickness which makes a mind buoyant in gladness often makes it gentlest and most sympathetic in sorrow.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#11. Shock and surprise, my little beauties, and quickness to strike, and lack of pity. These are the things that make a killer.

Joe Abercrombie

#12. Age was a demon, a haunting that slipped into the bones whispering weakness and frailty. It stole his muscles, his agility, and the quickness of his wit. It seemed a miserable reward for surviving, all things told, which was proof enough that life was a fool's bargain.

Steven Erikson

#13. Abstracts, abridgments, summaries, etc., have the same use with burning-glasses,
to collect the diffused light rays of wit and learning in authors, and make them point with warmth and quickness upon the reader's imagination.

Jonathan Swift

#14. As an athlete, I used my speed, agility and quickness to go out and play against the big guys.

Michael Chang

#15. I'm high off the indo creepin' with the quickness to the cut, bust one to his head while he munches on that donut.

Dr. Dre

#16. He used deliberation as others use quickness of repartee.

Agatha Christie

#17. The animadversions of critics are commonly such as may easily provoke the sedatest writer to some quickness of resentment and asperity of reply.

Samuel Johnson

#18. A lot of improvisation ends up being about just thinking outside of the box in the scene. It's not improvisation as much as it is quickness or making it real.

Jason Sudeikis

#19. 'You claim to be the man, you want me for a lover,
So you can do my girlfriends and my sister and my mother?'
I said, 'You're very blunt,' with quickness to the cue,
'So whassup with your mother, does she look as good as you?'

Dres

#20. People compare me to Isiah Thomas because of my quickness and change-of-direction, the way I change speeds and run the team.

Baron Davis

#21. Their behaviour at the assembly had not been calculated to please in general; and with more quickness of observation and less pliancy of temper than her sister, and with a judgement too unassailed by any attention to herself, she was very little disposed to approve them.

Jane Austen

#22. Aren't men funny? When they want to pay you the greatest compliment in their power, they naively tell you that you have a masculine mind. There is one compliment, incidentally, that I shall never be paying him. I cannot honestly say that he has a quickness of perception almost feminine.

Jean Webster

#23. That which we call wit consists much in quickness and tricks, and is so full of lightness that it seldom goes with judgment and solidity; but when they do meet, it is commonly in an honest man.

King James I

#24. The success of Prozac says that today's high-tech capitalism values a very different temperament. Confidence, flexibility, quickness, and energy - the positive aspects of hyperthymia - are at a premium.

Peter D. Kramer

#25. As I watched, another pizza went out, the car lurching into the street and speeding away with the quickness that told of a large engine. Pizza drivers have made good money since they successfully lobbied for hazard pay.

Kim Harrison

#26. You should not only have attention to everything, but a quickness of attention, so as to observe at once all the people in the room
their motions, their looks and their words
and yet without staring at them and seeming to be an observer.

Lord Chesterfield

#27. Bob Dylan's one of the greatest blues singers of the western world; ancient art, on-the-spot improvisation, mind quickness, endless variation, classical formulae, prophetic vision, mighty wind-horse.

Allen Ginsberg

#28. I love you for your quickness and your brokenness and your sharp edges too.

Cecilia Grant

#29. Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out of the common road by the quickness of their imagination.

Jonathan Swift

#30. Legendary innovators like Franklin, Snow, and Darwin all possess some common intellectual qualities - a certain quickness of mind, unbounded curiosity - but they also share one other defining attribute. They have a lot of hobbies.

Steven Johnson

#31. I used to be able to think. My brain's circuits were all connected, and I had spark, a quickness of mind that let me function well in the world.

Floyd Skloot

#32. One of the chief characteristics of a mob is its quickness. It is sudden. It pounces.

Teju Cole

#33. Quickness means you are hustling.

Ehab Atalla

#34. Let us be ashamed of our slowness in thanking God when He gives, and of our quickness in grumbling at Him when He takes away.

Nikolaj Velimirovic

#35. Hutch called into the semidarkness of The Shed. 'Somebody's coming, Heck!'
Then he, with the rest, faded from sight with that uncanny quickness known only to creatures of the wild and young children who are, after all, also creatures of the wild.
("The Shed")

E. Everett Evans

#36. Why did the Lord give use so much quickness unless it was to avoid responsibility?

Ogden Nash

#37. Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

Alfred North Whitehead

#38. The angel energises in different places by the quickness of his nature and the promptness and speed by which he can change his place: but the Deity, Who is everywhere and above all, energises at the same time in diverse ways with one simple energy.

John Damascene

#39. A sluggish, dawdling, and dilatory man may have spasms of activity, but he never acts continuously and consecutively with energetic quickness.

George Stillman Hillard

#40. It's not just straight-line speed. He's got the agility and the quickness to go with it. His vision on the field is phenomenal. It just opens the playbook so much as a coach that I'm really looking forward to it.

LeBron James

#41. Her quickness of mind was like a hiss, a dart, a lethal bite. And there was nothing in her appearance that acted as a corrective.

Elena Ferrante

#42. Nothing we do has the quickness, the sureness, the deep intelligence living at peace would have.

Denise Levertov

#43. As we go forth into the coming year, let it not be in the haste of impetuous, forgetful delight, nor with the quickness of impulsive thoughtlessness . But let us go out with the patient power of knowing that the God of Israel will go before us.

Oswald Chambers

#44. They are all silly and ignorant like other girls; but Lizzy has something more of quickness than her sisters.

Jane Austen

#45. We gain so much by quickness, and lose so much by slowness.

Seneca The Younger

#46. Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness.

Mark Rothko

#47. We are all built differently. Some guys are more powerful. Some guys are very tall. I'm not very tall, so I rely on quickness.

Henrik Lundqvist

#48. What felt interminable the first time now passes with a quickness borne of familiarity. It makes me wonder if life seems to accelerate as we get older simply because our days and our experiences become routine. The things we recognize flash right by, where once they held our attention.

Hugh Howey

#49. I pride myself in being physically the best that I can be, whether its cardio, strength or quickness.

Justin Cole

#50. No," I said finally.
"Slowness in Answering," she said into the handheld. "When's the last time you slept?"
"1940" I said promptly, which is the problem with Quickness in Answering.

Connie Willis

#51. Quickness more than anything else should determine your amount of pressure on the ball.

Don Meyer

#52. I always at home as a kid tried to move something with your hand and it doesn't move and then you get to do it in a movie. I mean my superpower is quickness but you know what I'm saying. You get a superpower and you're like "Man this is awesome. I get to pretend I have a superpower."

Evan Peters

#53. With too much quickness ever to be taught; With too much thinking to have common thought.

Alexander Pope

#54. Some people are polite, and some are quick. Each one's a good quality to have, but most of the time quickness trumps politeness.

Haruki Murakami

#55. There's nothing like a debate to teach one quickness. I often wish I had gone in for them when I was a youngster. It would have helped me no end.

E. M. Forster

#56. It is true there is nothing displays a genius, I mean a quickness of genius, more than a dispute; as two diamonds, encountering, contribute to each other's luster. But perhaps the odds is much against the man of taste in this particular.

William Shenstone

#57. I was captain and should have set the example. I would lift a minimum of weights. Mine was natural physical strength. I always thought quickness and agility were much more important.

Merlin Olsen

#58. The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance.

Jane Austen

#59. Positioning, anticipation and technique create quickness. Therefore, you can always get quicker

Don Meyer

#60. The quickness and flexibility of a well mind, a belief or hope that things will eventually sort themselves out-these are the resources lost to a person when the brain is ill.

Kay Redfield Jamison

#61. Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

George Santayana

#62. Tomorrow you may look up and see me as a lawyer, a doctor, business executive,teacher - or WHATEVER I BELIEVE I CAN BE !My story isn't about nice handles or quickness on the court ,but about HARD WORK, PERSEVERANCE, and FAITH! I know God's blessings ,I can accomplish anything and i mean ANYTHING!!!

Jon-Robert Holden

#63. * Intelligence is quickness to learn. Ability is the skill to apply what is learned. Competence is the ability and the desire to apply what is learned. Desire is the attitude that makes a skillful person competent. Many skillful people are incompetent. Ability without the right attitude is wasted.

Shiv Khera

#64. To be forward to praise others implies either great eminence, that can afford to, part with applause; or great quickness of discernment, with confidence in our own judgments; or great sincerity and love of truth, getting the better of our self-love.

William Hazlitt

#65. There is a force, a quickness that is translated through you into action. If you block it, the world will not have it ...

Martha Graham

#66. I have to use my strengths, which [are] my speed, my quickness and my movements. If I do that, I really believe that I will come out on top.

Manny Pacquiao

#67. Here is a moment of extravagant beauty: I drink it liquid from the shells of my hands and almost all of it runs sparkling through my fingers: but beauty is like that, it is a fraction of a second, quickness of a flash and then immediately it escapes.

Clarice Lispector

#68. I've always believed in quickness over strength and size.

Dean Smith

#69. I still have my quickness, but I turn it on and off. I don't want to fail in anything I do and that's why I'm hard on myself.

Kenny Anderson

#70. If the quickness of the mind and the fluency of the tongue are too punctilious and sharp, moderate them in your activity and rest.

Xun Zi

#71. All that is worth seeing in good boxing can best be witnessed in a contest with soft gloves. Every value is called out: quickness, force, precision, foresight, readiness, pluck, and endurance. With these, the rowdy and 'rough' are not satisfied.

John Boyle O'Reilly

#72. Quickness is the essence of the war.

Sun Tzu

#73. Vialine counted the points off on her small fingers. "So quickness to strike, and cleverness, and aggression without conscience, honor or pity."
Thorn held up her empty hands. "They've got me everything I have.

Joe Abercrombie

#74. Forget perfect. Be quick. Quickness kills.

Ehab Atalla

#75. Speed is a great asset; but it's greater when it's combined with quickness - and there's a big difference.

Ty Cobb

#76. Base Ball, to be played thoroughly, requires the possession of muscular strength, great agility, quickness of eye, readiness of hand, and many other faculties of mind and body that mark the man of nerve.

Henry Chadwick

#77. Doug Christie, what skill, what strenght, what power, what quickness. The visionof Magic Johnson, the athletisicm of Michael Jordan, the toughness of larry Bird. Dough Christie has it all

Bill Walton

#78. Fain would I wed a fair young man that night and day could please me, When my mind or body grieved that had the power to ease me. Maids are full of longing thoughtsthat breed a bloodless sickness, And that, oft I hear men say, is only cured by quickness.

Thomas Campion

#79. Youth has a quickness of apprehension, which it is very apt to mistake for an acuteness of penetration.

Hannah More

#80. The forces of Hannibal, Drake and Napoleon moved at best with the horses' gallop or the speed of wind on sail. Now, aviation brings a new concept of time and distance to the affairs of men. It demands adaptability to change, places a premium on quickness of thought and speed of action.

Charles Lindbergh

#81. I couldn't have been a great goalkeeper without power, agility and quickness.

Hope Solo

#82. 267. - A quickness in believing evil without having sufficiently examined it, is the effect of pride and laziness. We wish to find the guilty, and we do not wish to trouble ourselves in examining the crime.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#83. There is no real light but just small sparks of happiness we should photograph to contain. But if we stop to photograph, we can't enjoy them, the flash overexposes them and they disappear.

Cristiane Serruya