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Quotes About Quickness

Beshrew me, but you have a quick wit. SPEED: And yet it cannot overtake your slow purse.
~ William Shakespeare
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
~ Clive James
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
You need intensity to be quick
~ Sunday Adelaja
Learn to do everything with speed to be efficient and effective
~ Sunday Adelaja
There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
~ Joseph Addison
He was good at coming off the bench and igniting the attack with his quickness and speed.
~ Phil Jackson
I want to be fast, agile and strong.
~ Rory MacDonald
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 think I might not be the best vertical athlete, but I think I'm quicker than people give me credit for. That was the biggest knock on me coming out of college.
~ Klay Thompson
It is unity that doth enchant me. By her power I am free though thrall, happy in sorrow, rich in poverty, and quick even in death.
~ Giordano Bruno
The same is true of patience or mental quickness. A brain like a sponge and an even temper are all very well in one who minds the proper use of such things; to anyone else, they may bring harm.
~ Plato
And is not shrewdness a quickness or cleverness of the soul, and not a quietness?
~ Plato
can protect you, but we have to move fast.
~ Dean Koontz
I think that's one of my main attributes. My movement, my speed, my feet.
~ James DeGale
Intuitives tend to define intelligence as "quickness of understanding" and so prejudge the case in their own favor, for intuition is very quick.
~ Isabel Briggs Myers
He can run faster than Severus Snape confronted with shampoo.
~ J. K. Rowling
We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.
~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
My desire is to make what haste I can to be gone.
~ Oliver Cromwell
Try to remember that, by definition, an estimate is always wrong (two months equals two years in dog days), and that cost quickens with time. Expense is a river whose rapids never rest.
~ Diane Ackerman
agility: the ability to quickly change direction while traveling at a high speed.
~ Donald G. Reinertsen
I'm no porn star, but what I lack in size I make up for in speed. --- Harry McGlade
~ J.A. Konrath
Fear gives sudden instincts of skill.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
If you can be funny, it means you're intelligent. Your brain is working fast.
~ Amber Valletta