Quickness Quotes

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended. (Alfred North Whitehead)
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. View quote
Jane Austen
Digital for storage and quickness. Analog for fatness and warmth. View quote
Adrian Belew
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. View quote
Merlin Olsen
Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness. View quote
Mark Rothko
The forces of Hannibal, Drake and Napoleon moved at best with the horses' gallop or the speed of wind on sail. Now, aviation brings a new concept of time and distance to the affairs of men. It demands adaptability to change, places a premium on quickness of thought and speed of action. View quote
Charles Lindbergh
It is a fundamental and deplorable error by which we in this country have confused education with the acquisition of knowledge.... Amount of knowledge is in itself not of first importance, but to make the best use of what we know. The easy assumption of our educationists that we have only to supply the mind with a smattering of facts in each department of knowledge and the mind can be trusted to develop itself and take its own suitable road is contrary to science, contrary to human experience.... Much as we have lost as a nation, we have always preserved our intellectual alertness, quickness and originality; but even this last gift is threatened by our University system, and if it goes, it will be the beginning of irretrievable degradation and final extinction. View quote
Sri Aurobindo
It is a complaint without foundation that "to very few people is granted the faculty of comprehending what is imparted to them, and that most, through dullness of understanding, lose their labor and their time." On the contrary, you will find the greater number of men both ready in conceiving and quick in learning, since such quickness is natural to man. As birds are born to fly, horses to run, and wild beasts to show fierceness, so to us peculiarly belong activity and sagacity of understanding. View quote
Quintilian
Conan did not hesitate, nor did he even glance toward the chest that held the wealth of an epoch. With a quickness that would have shamed the spring of a hungry jaguar, he swooped, grasped the girl's arm just as her fingers slipped from the smooth stone, and snatched her up on the span with one explosive heave. View quote
Robert E. Howard
He has the quickness, he has the ability on the ball. Thiago Silva is an incredible player and extremely intelligent. View quote
Thiago Silva
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)
Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are. View quote
George Santayana
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. View quote
Kay Redfield Jamison
We had not the armour, the strength, the quickness in manoeuvre, yes, the leadership. View quote
Michael Foot
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. View quote
Jane Austen
He's good inside, very good, strong physically. The one thing that surprised me the most was his quickness. And his defensive ability. He moves his head a lot, feints a lot. He's not an easy man to hit. View quote
Roberto Durán
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. View quote
Steven Johnson
The cheapness and quickness of modern methods of communication has been like a growth of wings, so that a thousand things which were thought to belong like trees in one place may travel about like birds. View quote
Melvil Dewey
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. View quote
Henrik Lundqvist
All that is worth seeing in good boxing can best be witnessed in a contest with soft gloves. Every value is called out: quickness, force, precision, foresight, readiness, pluck, and endurance. With these, the rowdy and 'rough' are not satisfied. View quote
John Boyle O'Reilly
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)
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. View quote
Samantha Stosur
With too much quickness ever to be taught; With too much thinking to have common thought. View quote
Alexander Pope
There's nothing like a debate to teach one quickness. View quote
E. M. Forster
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. View quote
E. M. Forster