Some aim to be deft, others to be laboriously careful. Neither dexterity nor conscientiousness is enough. — Chai Lu Copy Share Image
I never play video games! I'm so bad at it. I have, like, no manual dexterity. — Kelly Hu Copy Share Image
“It is almost possible to measure a writer's skill by the dexterity with which he repeats, and yet avoids monotony.” — George G. Williams Copy Share Image
“Right or wrong, do it right for posterity to thrive on your dexterity.” — Jonathan Tetteh-Cole Copy Share Image
“Fingers with no dexterity and legs too weak to walk, the result of old age and tired old bones.” — Ghillie Copy Share Image
“True artists do not create to fish for compliments and praises. They create to express the love they have for their craft.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
But the wisdom and authority of the legislator are seldom victorious in a contest with the vigilant dexterity of private interest. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I always had a good dexterity. The story in my family goes that at the age of 3 I could thread needles… — Judith Leiber Copy Share Image
Art, if it is successful in the task of questioning reality, if it is good painting and not merely a performance of… — Patrick Swift Copy Share Image
He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand times more exact than… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
“You have more brain cells than there are grains of sand on your favorite beach, and you have cleverness, dexterity, and creativity—all… — Gavin de Becker Copy Share Image
Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing of her gallèd eyes, She married. O, most wicked speed,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It is only with prudence, sagacity, and much dexterity that great aims are accomplished, and all obstacles surmounted. Otherwise nothing is accomplished. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The professionalism of technique and flash of dexterity are more comfortable to be around than raw creative power, hence our society generally… — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
Afterward, there was some debate as to whether we'd actually "done it properly," which gives you some idea of the awesome skill… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Keep your own secret, and get out other people's. Keep your own temper, and artfully warm other people's. Counterwork your rivalswith diligence… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
With Head Off & Split, Nikky Finney establishes herself as one of the most eloquent, urgent, fearless and necessary poets writing in… — Kwame Dawes Copy Share Image
For many parts of Nature can neither be invented with sufficient subtlety, nor demonstrated with sufficient perspicuity, nor accommodated unto use with… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
This great increase of the quantity of work which, in consequence of the division of labour, the same number of people are… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Slowly, but very deliberately, the brooding edifice of seduction, creaking and incongruous, came into being, a vast Heath Robinson mechanism, dually controlled… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“So, what's first?" "Dexterity. I throw things at you. You avoid them." "You're not a complicated person, are you? Let's do it."… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand times more exact than… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
I hate to paint portraits! I hope never to paint another portrait in my life. Portraiture may be all right for a… — John Singer Sargent Copy Share Image
If a shot aimed at aptness succeeds aptly, it is then fully apt, since it is not only apt but also aptly… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
A big business man was telling Henry Ford about a coach driver of super-expertness with his whip. The driver was telling how… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
In my view there is a level of human knowledge that involves just getting it right aptly. This "animal" epistemic level is… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
Drawing is . . . not an exercise of particular dexterity, but above all a means of expressing intimate feelings and moods. — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
In ancient times, bodily strength and dexterity, being of greater use and importance in war, was also much more esteemed and valued,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
What passes in the world for talent or dexterity or enterprise is often only a want of moral principle. We may succeed… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Watching a dog try to chew a large piece of toffee is a pastime fit for gods. Mr. Fusspot's mixed ancestry had… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It is only by prudence, wisdom, and dexterity that great ends are attained and obstacles overcome. Without these qualities nothing succeeds. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
SPEAK OF TROUBLE highlights the abilities of Lowell Sostomi as singer/songwriter and brings together a talented band of musicians with amazing dexterity,… — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share Image
Dexterity is one of the chief weapons of diplomacy; governments rely more upon the supremacy of this instrument, when in the hands… — James Ellis Copy Share Image
Style has a profound meaning to Black Americans. If we can’t drive, we will invent walks and the world will envy the… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
You must know that I am, of all men who were ever born, the most inclined to love persons. Whenever I behold… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
In populous cities, which are the seat of commerce and manufactures, the middle ranks of inhabitants, who derive their subsistence from the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Matt's brother and the blond cook spent a good portion of last season tangling the sheets. Historically, said cook tangled many other… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
Have you ever noticed how few sitting places you find in private gardens? How seldom the versatility and importance of benches is… — Mirabel Osler Copy Share Image
One needs only to study a certain positioning of the hand in relation to the keys to obtain with ease the most… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
