Quickness Quotes

• Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

  George Santayana

  Vision, Intelligence, Awe

  George Santayana (1970). “Three Philosophical Poets: Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe”, p.19, Library of Alexandria

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• Quickness is the essence of the war.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Essence

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

  Ty Cobb

  Differences, Speed, Assets

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Wise, Intelligent, Intelligence

  Dialogues (1954) 15 Dec. 1939

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• 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

  Mind, Tongue, Fluency

  Xunzi, John Knoblock (1988). “Xunzi: A Translation and Study of the Complete Works”, p.153, Stanford University Press

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• We gain so much by quickness, and lose so much by slowness.

  Seneca the Younger

  Gains, Slowness, Loses

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• Digital for storage and quickness. Analog for fatness and warmth.

  Adrian Belew

  Digital, Fatness, Analog

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• 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

  Should Have, Important, Example

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• 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

  Art, Mean, Anecdotes

  Mark Rothko, Miguel López-Remiro (2006). “Writings on Art”, p.45, Yale University Press

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

  Alexander Pope

  Thinking, Too Much, Taught

  Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The poems of Alexander Pope”, p.91

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• 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

  Athlete, Discipline, Guy

  "Evander Holyfield Q n A - Part I". Interview with Zhenyu Li, www.thesweetscience.com. April 20, 2010.

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• 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

  Business, Men, Imagination

  Jonathan Swift (1761). “Works”, p.301

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• Positioning, anticipation and technique create quickness. Therefore, you can always get quicker

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Nba, Technique

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• The universe is not short on wake-up calls. We’re just quick to hit the snooze button.

  Brené Brown

  People, Deep Thought, Buttons

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• The pictures were painted directly through me, without preliminary drawings and with great power. I had no idea what the pictures would depict and still I worked quickly and surely without changing a single brush-stroke.

  Hilma af Klint

  Change, Art, Work

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• What nature does blindly, slowly and ruthlessly, man may do providently, quickly, and kindly. As it lies within his power, so it becomes his duty to work in that direction.

  Francis Galton

  Nature, Kindness, Lying

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• So much of what we do is ephemeral and quickly forgotten, even by ourselves, so it's gratifying to have something you have done linger in people's memories.

  John Towner Williams

  Memories, People, Done

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• There is so little time for us all; I need to be able to say what I want quickly and to as many people as possible.

  Marc Bolan

  Time, People, Able

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• 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

  Character, Perception, Natural

  Jesse Zuba, Jane Austen (2009). “Persuasion - Jane Austen”, p.100, Infobase Publishing

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• 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

  Home, Tree, Joy

  Hermann Hesse (1980). “Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays”

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• Earn as much money as you possibly can and as quickly as you can. The sooner you get money out of the way, the sooner you will be able to get to the rest of your problems in style.

  Jim Rohn

  Style, Able, Way

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jul 30, 2015

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• Why is it that weeks and months and years go by so quickly, all in a blur, but moments last forever?

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Years, Thought Provoking, Forever

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “Revolution”, p.44, Bloomsbury Publishing

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

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Kindness, Compassion, Joy

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1866). “The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings”, p.35

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• It is true there is nothing displays a genius, I mean a quickness of genius, more than a dispute; as two diamonds, encountering, contribute to each other's luster. But perhaps the odds is much against the man of taste in this particular.

  William Shenstone

  Mean, Men, Odds

  William Shenstone (1868). “Essays on men and manners”, p.98

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• 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.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Horse, Distance, Men

  "Aviation, Geography, and Race". Reader's Digest, pp. 64-67, November 1939.

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