Quotes About Quick-thinking

He was more of a cut-a-wisebrack-and-run-for-cover kind of guy.

When it comes to comedy, they always say, "Jackée, whatever comes to your mind." But heaven forbid I can't think of something. It's never happened yet, thank God. I may knock on wood.

I've built a career on the survival skill I honed early on: being a smart aleck who is good with a fast comeback.

I'M PRETTY GOOD at multitasking, so I figured I could flee in terror and argue at the same time.

Fenris lunged at my face. I cleverly escaped by falling on my butt.

want of a better idea, she washed her face with the available hand soap and dried

Street football features all the basics of football: you get a lot of touches on the ball, it is fast, teaches you to think quickly and to be creative.

ONE OF THE MOST DISTINCTIVE aspects of Churchill's approach to leadership was his ability to switch tracks in an instant and focus earnestly on things that any other prime minister would have found trivial. Depending on one's perspective, this was either an endearing trait or a bedevilment.

Football is more disputed in England than it is in Italy. Every match is a very hard match because the referee doesn't blow his whistle as much as in Italy, and every team plays against each other like it is a final. I enjoy it more in England because you have to think quicker. The pace of the game is faster, so you don't have much time to think.

In both games, you have to think fast. In chess you tend to know all the patterns already, just like in football.

We were trained to live by our wits, in any circumstance.

I like witty people, people who can be witty on the spot.

You have to be able to adjust on the fly, and that is what the great ones do.

What does being a girl have to do with it? There's no time to think when you're on the spot.

There are times when fixing things quickly is the only option: when you have to channel MacGyver, reach for the duct tape, and cobble together whatever solution works right now. If someone is choking on a morsel of food, you don't sit back, stroke your chin and take the Aristotelian long view. You quickly administer the Heimlich maneuvre.

A girl was riding the elevator down to the lobby. The elevator stopped on the tenth floor and a totally cute boy walked in. She farted. Thinking fast on her feet she said, "Cool ringtone, isn't it? Want me to send it to you?

Ah, you coward! Look at you, running." "Actually, it's called improvising.

Not too many people are - were as good as Bob Hope. George Burns was great at thinking, you know, on the spot. Steve Allen was marvelous, and so was George Burns. But Bob may be the king of them all, you know.

Braiiinnnnssss, we said in unison. It's both sad and incredibly impressive that you were all ready with that one.

in! 'Cause I saw her do that to a roach before! And she is excellent at it!

I'm a blagger by trade.

We were trained to live by our wits, in any circumstance.

What does being a girl have to do with it? There's no time to think when you're on the spot...

I like to keep a bottle of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy.