Quickness Quotes

50 quotes by 47 authors

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… — Kay Redfield Jamison
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… — Jonathan Swift
Reading is a pleasure of the mind, which means that it is a little like a sport: your eagerness and knowledge and quickness count for… — Bennett Cerf
Speed is a great asset; but it's greater when it's combined with quickness - and there's a big difference. — Ty Cobb
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… — Bill Walton
What can we writers learn from lizards, lift from birds? In quickness is truth. The faster you blurt, the more swiftly you write, the more… — Ray Bradbury
Quickness more than anything else should determine your amount of pressure on the ball. — Don Meyer
I have no great quickness of apprehension or wit which is so remarkable in some clever men, for instance Huxley — Charles Darwin
Positioning, anticipation and technique create quickness. Therefore, you can always get quicker — Don Meyer
Legendary innovators like Franklin, Snow, and Darwin all possess some common intellectual qualitiesâ€”a certain quickness of mind, unbounded curiosityâ€”but they also share one other defining… — Steven Johnson
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
Nothing we do has the quickness, the sureness, the deep intelligence living at peace would have. — Denise Levertov
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… — Merlin Olsen
The poems in Helena Mesaâ€™s virtuosic first book, Horse Dance Underwater, run with such speed, verve, and alacrity they leave you breathless, exhilarated, and transformed… — Michael Collier
I submit that tennis is the most beautiful sport there is and also the most demanding. It requires body control, hand-eye coordination, quickness, flat-out speed,… — David Foster Wallace
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… — Oswald Chambers
... you must hasten to oppose pernicious pride of mind, before it penetrates into the marrow of your bones. Resist it, curb the quickness of… — Lorenzo Scupoli
When we have learned how to listen to trees, then the brevity and the quickness and the childlike hastiness of our thoughts achieve an incomparable… — Hermann Hesse
If the quickness of the mind and the fluency of the tongue are too punctilious and sharp, moderate them in your activity and rest. — Xunzi
With too much quickness ever to be taught; With too much thinking to have common thought. — Alexander Pope

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47 authors contributed a total of 50 Quickness Quotes, led by these top contributors: