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Quotes About Quickness

As Jeopardy devotees know, if you're trying to win on the show, the buzzer is all. On any given night, nearly all the contestants know nearly all the answers, so it's just a matter of who masters buzzer rhythm the best.
~ Ken Jennings
I wasn't real quick, and I wasn't real strong. Some guys will just take off and it's like, whoa. So I beat them with my mind and my fundamentals.
~ Larry Bird
He who laughs last thinks slowest.
~ Author Unknown
With Michael Jackson, when he moved, it looked like a martial artist to me. He was quicker than other dancers, but he didn't have muscles; he was just quicker and looked more in control of gravity. He looked like a martial arts master, so I tried to steal body movement from him; that's why I imitate Michael Jackson a little bit.
~ Shinsuke Nakamura
Stay ready so you don't have to get ready.
~ Tia Williams
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 anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance.
~ Jane Austen
They have none of them much to recommend them, replied he: they are all silly and ignorant like other girls; but Lizzy has something more of quickness than her sisters. Mr. Bennet, how can you abuse your own children in such a way? You take delight in vexing me. You have no compassion on my poor nerves. You mistake me my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.
~ Jane Austen
The indirect boast; for you are really proud of your defects in writing, because you consider them as proceeding from a rapidity of thought and carelessness of execution, which, if not estimable, you think at least highly interesting. 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
they are all silly and ignorant like other girls; but Lizzy has something more of quickness than her sisters.
~ 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.
~ Jane Austen
The golden rule is work fast. As for framing, composition, focus-this is no time to start asking yourself questions: you just have to trust your intuition and the sharpness of your reflexes.
~ Jacques-Henri Lartigue
Promptitude—Courtesy—Intelligence
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Let the snake wait under his weed and the writing be of words, slow and quick, sharp to strike, quiet to wait, sleepless.
~ William Carlos Williams
What they (Americans) do, they want to be in a hurry.
~ Henry Chadwick
As an athlete, I used my speed, agility and quickness to go out and play against the big guys.
~ Michael Chang
Run if you can because, in spite of how it looks on television, it's hard to hit a moving target. If you can't run, fight and fight dirty. Go for the eyes. Think of every object around you as a weapon. Strike fast and hard when you get the chance because you'll only get one chance.
~ Jayne Ann Krentz
White dude speed' is the kind of quickness that you see from a guy who's trying to beat the 'Do Not Walk' sign across the street. They're moving but not fast enough to scuff their boat shoes.
~ Sean Evans
I defend my position. I am not Messi. I am not Ronaldo. I have something else. I am not the quickest, like Walcott. I have to be clever and read situations. If I didn't have that, I wouldn't be able to play Premier League. Everybody has a strength - this is mine.
~ Toby Alderweireld
I want to be quicker, I want to be stronger, and I want to be a leader.
~ Blake Griffin
Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped.
~ Larry Holmes
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
When you play Leeds, you need players who are quick and who are capable of beating opponents as they like to set up one-v-one.
~ Paul Merson
Move quickly. Sound, calm mind. Be light in body. Have a clever mind. Master the basics.
~ Unknown