Dexterity Quotes
24 quotes by 24 authors
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It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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For many parts of Nature can neither be invented with sufficient subtlety, nor demonstrated with sufficient perspicuity, nor accommodated unto use with sufficient dexterity, without…
— Francis Bacon
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You must know that I am, of all men who were ever born, the most inclined to love persons. Whenever I behold someone who possesses…
— Michelangelo
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When she goes about her kitchen duties, chopping, carving, mixing, whisking, she moves with the grace and precision of a ballet dancer, her fingers plying…
— Craig Claiborne
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In ancient times, bodily strength and dexterity, being of greater use and importance in war, was also much more esteemed and valued, than at present.…
— David Hume
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A good way to work on alternate picking is to choose three or four notes, and work on those. Too often, players who are trying…
— Al Di Meola
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With Head Off & Split, Nikky Finney establishes herself as one of the most eloquent, urgent, fearless and necessary poets writing in America today. What…
— Kwame Dawes
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Drawing is . . . not an exercise of particular dexterity, but above all a means of expressing intimate feelings and moods.
— Henri Matisse
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One needs only to study a certain positioning of the hand in relation to the keys to obtain with ease the most beautiful sounds, to…
— Frederic Chopin
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Afterward, there was some debate as to whether we'd actually "done it properly," which gives you some idea of the awesome skill and artful dexterity…
— David Nicholls
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He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand times more exact than anything they may…
— Walter Benjamin
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I hate to paint portraits! I hope never to paint another portrait in my life. Portraiture may be all right for a man in his…
— John Singer Sargent
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SPEAK OF TROUBLE highlights the abilities of Lowell Sostomi as singer/songwriter and brings together a talented band of musicians with amazing dexterity, loads of energy,…
— Gordon Lightfoot
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The professionalism of technique and flash of dexterity are more comfortable to be around than raw creative power, hence our society generally rewards virtuoso performers…
— Stephen Nachmanovitch
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Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing of her gallèd eyes, She married. O, most wicked speed, to post With…
— William Shakespeare
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Watching a dog try to chew a large piece of toffee is a pastime fit for gods. Mr. Fusspot's mixed ancestry had given him a…
— Terry Pratchett
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Some of my Arcanum bunkmates taught me a card game called dogs-breath. I returned the favor by giving an impromptu lesson in psychology, probability, and…
— Patrick Rothfuss
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Matt's brother and the blond cook spent a good portion of last season tangling the sheets. Historically, said cook tangled many other sheets with dexterity…
— Nora Roberts
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And because he felt like he might burst open and because he lacked the dexterity in English to say all that he was thinking--how in…
— Jess Walter
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Style has a profound meaning to Black Americans. If we can’t drive, we will invent walks and the world will envy the dexterity of our…
— Nikki Giovanni
Who Wrote These Dexterity Quotes
24 authors contributed a total of 24 Dexterity Quotes as follows: