Quickness Quotes · Page 2

I use my speed, my quickness, using the way I move to change direction and get those bigger corners on their heels.

— Brandin Cooks

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

— Charles Darwin

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

— Teju Cole

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

— Denise Levertov

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

— Samuel Johnson

It is said that Obama speaks 'professorially,' a fact that understates the quickness and agility of his mind.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

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

— Alexander Pope

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

— Dr. Dre

Earn as much money as you possibly can and as quickly as you can. The sooner you get money out of the…

— Jim Rohn

Fain would I wed a fair young man that night and day could please me, When my mind or body grieved that…

— Thomas Campion

I was captain and should have set the example. I would lift a minimum of weights. Mine was natural physical strength. I…

— Merlin Olsen

The success of Prozac says that today's high-tech capitalism values a very different temperament. Confidence, flexibility, quickness, and energy - the positive…

— Peter D. Kramer

Base Ball, to be played thoroughly, requires the possession of muscular strength, great agility, quickness of eye, readiness of hand, and many…

— Henry Chadwick

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

— Jane Austen

There is a quickness of perception in some, a nicety in the discernment of character, a natural penetration, in short, which no…

— Jane Austen

It is true there is nothing displays a genius, I mean a quickness of genius, more than a dispute; as two diamonds,…

— William Shenstone

“What can we writers learn from lizards, lift from birds? In quickness is truth. The faster you blurt, the more swiftly you…

— Ray Bradbury

I think the big problem this country has is being politically correct. I've been challenged by so many people, and I don't…

— Donald Trump

Old men tend to forget what thought was like in their youth; they forget the quickness of the mental jump, the daring…

— Isaac Asimov

If the going is tough and the pressure is on, If the reserves of strength have been drained and the summit is…

— Edmund Hillary

I think this’ll definitely tide me over while we’re apart,”Bones laughed, dragging me into his arms with far more strength and quickness…

— Jeaniene Frost

I submit that tennis is the most beautiful sport there is and also the most demanding. It requires body control, hand-eye coordination,…

— David Foster Wallace

Comedy can be more difficult than drama. It requires more attention to timing. In the theater, you're always dependent on the audience…

— David Alan Basche

The tag that I was too small and too slow just made me work that much harder. Besides, quickness is more important…

— Steve Largent

I have to use my strengths, which [are] my speed, my quickness and my movements. If I do that, I really believe…

— Manny Pacquiao

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

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

— Hope Solo

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

— Alfred North Whitehead

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

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

I definitely want to maintain my quickness. I feel like a lot of players they bulk up and lose their quickness.

— Jerami Grant

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

— George Stillman Hillard

I still have my quickness, but I turn it on and off. I don't want to fail in anything I do and…

— Kenny Anderson

“He was good at coming off the bench and igniting the attack with his quickness and speed.”

— Phil Jackson

“I love you for your quickness and your brokenness and your sharp edges too.”

— Cecilia Grant

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

— Justin Cole

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

— Martha Graham

Let us be ashamed of our slowness in thanking God when He gives, and of our quickness in grumbling at Him when…

— Nikolaj Velimirovic

“Some people are polite, and some are quick. Each one’s a good quality to have, but most of the time quickness trumps…

— Haruki Murakami

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

— Ty Cobb

Quickness comes from long sustained effort after rightness, and comes unsought. It never comes from effort after quickness.

— Anonymous