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Quotes About Ambidexterity

I'm trying to climb up both walls at once.
~ Charles Olson
I learned at a young age to dribble with both hands, and that allows me to be more creative when I go against bigger and stronger opponents.
~ Steve Nash
I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.
~ Yogi Berra
When your move with your left hand can be just as potent as your right hand, I think that's pretty special. I think that's why Kyrie's the best, because he finishes so well around the rim with his left or right.
~ Austin Rivers
Aleister Crowley knew about this pragmatically, before modern neurology. He taught his pupils to learn to write equally well with both hands, thereby forcing the dormant right brain to spring to activity.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
I'm training my left hand to write, in case I lose the ability in my right. That's gymnastics for the dying.
~ Dmitri Shostakovich
He had tried a few practice matches with his left hand. But his left hand had always been a traitor and would not do what he called on it to do and he did not trust it.
~ Ernest Hemingway
AMBIDEXTER  (AMBIDE'XTER)   n.s.[Lat.]1. A man who has equally the use of both his hands. Rodiginus, undertaking to give a reason of ambidexters, and left-handed men, deliverth a third opinion.Brown'sVul. Err.2. A man who is equally ready to act on either side, in party disputes. This sense is ludicrous.
~ Samuel Johnson
People were born with two hands; why not use both of them? As it was, swordsmen fought with only one sword, and often one hand. This made sense, so long as everybody followed the same practice. But if one combatant were to employ two swords at once, what chance would an opponent using only one have of winning?
~ Eiji Yoshikawa
I was born left-handed, but I was made to use my other hand. When I was writing 'Famished Road,' which was very long, I got repetitive stress syndrome. My right wrist collapsed, so I started using my left hand. The prose I wrote with my left hand came out denser, so later on I had to change it.
~ Ben Okri
My spoon was bent so that if I wanted to eat I had to pick the spoon up with my right hand. If I picked it up with my left hand, the spoon bent away from my mouth. I wanted to pick the spoon up with my left hand.
~ Charles Bukowski
I try to do the fancy things out there by going with both hands, making crossover moves, and having a certain creativity and flair to my game.
~ Stephen Curry
My dominant right hand wrote the Inner Parent voices. My Inner Child spoke through my left hand.
~ Lucia Capacchione
Being able to use both feet was something that came quite naturally to me ever since I started playing. However, it's something I work on all the time to make sure that level never gets any lower.
~ Santi Cazorla