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Quickness is the essence of the war. -- Sun Tzu
Quickness means you are hustling. -- Ehab Atalla
Forget perfect. Be quick. Quickness kills. -- Ehab Atalla
Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are. -- George Santayana
Digital for storage and quickness. Analog for fatness and warmth. -- Adrian Belew
Quickness more than anything else should determine your amount of pressure on the ball. -- Don Meyer
Speed is a great asset; but it's greater when it's combined with quickness - and there's a big difference. -- Ty Cobb
Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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
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
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
Tennis takes care of everything. It requires agility and quickness to get to the ball, core strength to get power into your shorts and stamina to last for an entire match. In addition to toning your arms and shoulders, it's a total body workout for your legs and abs, and works your heart and core unlike any other sport. -- Samantha Stosur
The main thing about Bruce Lee is that, he was a little guy. And you know, his quickness, his aggressiveness, his explosive power, you have to be a great athlete to have all these, his body, his look, you know, all these things have to do with discipline and structure. He was able to go against the biggest guy, regardless of who he was. -- Evander Holyfield
Competitive drills enhance quickness. -- Bobby Knight
Positioning, anticipation and technique create quickness. Therefore, you can always get quicker -- Don Meyer
With too much quickness ever to be taught; With too much thinking to have common thought. -- Alexander Pope
Nothing we do has the quickness, the sureness, the deep intelligence living at peace would have. -- Denise Levertov
A sluggish, dawdling, and dilatory man may have spasms of activity, but he never acts continuously and consecutively with energetic quickness. -- George Stillman Hillard
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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 joy. Whoever has learned how to listen to trees no longer wants to be a tree. He wants to be nothing except what he is. That is home. That is happiness. -- Hermann Hesse
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, endurance, and that weird mix of caution and abandon we call courage. It also requires smarts. Just one single shot in one exchange in one point of a high-level match is a nightmare of mechanical variables. -- David Foster Wallace
I couldn't have been a great goalkeeper without power, agility and quickness. -- Hope Solo
One of the chief characteristics of a mob is its quickness. It is sudden. It pounces. -- Teju Cole
As an athlete, I used my speed, agility and quickness to go out and play against the big guys. -- Michael Chang
We - we need strength, we need energy, we need quickness and we need brain in this country to turn it around. -- Donald Trump
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
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
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
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
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Comedy can be more difficult than drama. It requires more attention to timing. In the theater, you're always dependent on the audience for the energy, but in comedy the feedback you get is more important. You can judge by the quickness and the length of the laugh just where you stand with 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 than flat-out speed. How often does a receiver run 40 yards straight down the field? Not very often. Lateral speed is what counts. How quickly can you get in and out of a cut? I can do that as well as anyone. -- Steve Largent
I've always believed in quickness over strength and size. -- Dean Smith
We gain so much by quickness, and lose so much by slowness. -- Seneca the Younger
Why did the Lord give use so much quickness unless it was to avoid responsibility? -- Ogden Nash
I pride myself in being physically the best that I can be, whether its cardio, strength or quickness. -- Justin Cole
Youth has a quickness of apprehension, which it is very apt to mistake for an acuteness of penetration. -- Hannah More
The same quickness which makes a mind buoyant in gladness often makes it gentlest and most sympathetic in sorrow. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
We need strength, we need energy, we need quickness and we need brain in this country to turn it around. -- Donald Trump
I have no great quickness of apprehension or wit which is so remarkable in some clever men, for instance Huxley -- Charles Darwin
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The power of doing any thing with quickness is always much prized by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance. - Mr Darcy -- Jane Austen
The power of doing any thing with quickness is always much prized by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance. - Mr Darcy" -- Jane Austen
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

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