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Quotes About Quick-thinking

Treachery and quick-thinking will defeat hard-and-fast rules any day. Why should we be afraid to seize the opportunities we see?
~ Brian Herbert
You have to think and act quickly. You have to quickly come up with a solution to beat a player, because most of the time, you are in a one-v-one.
~ Philippe Coutinho
I am terrible at memorizing things. Hence, ad-libbing.
~ Michael Weatherly
They did what soldiers always do. They improvised.
~ Geoffrey Norman
One who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Plan B?' Ivy said. 'What is plan B?' Jenks reddened. 'Grab the fish and run like hell,' he muttered, and I almost giggled.
~ Kim Harrison
First responders are a resilient lot. They deal with many types of situations and are very good at improvisation in their work.
~ Jesse Spencer
Execution saved Lois's life.
~ James Altucher
It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.
~ James Russell Lowell
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
~ Moliere
The next time someone shoots at you… try ducking.
~ Lisa Kleypas
With freestyling it's not about "Say something funny!" That has nothing to do with it. It's about becoming quicker on your feet and knowing that your entire day can go into your rap if you're on it.
~ Doseone
I have a great ability to improvise verbally and I am very funny on a dime.
~ Kate Braverman
Un nano non lancia mai la sua arma se non ne ha un'altra!
~ Unknown
But the fact remained that a tense situation just made McKay think faster. You could probably phrase it as an equation, where the increasing awfulness of whatever tight spot they were in was directly proportional to the speed of McKay's ability to think a way out of it.
~ Martha Wells
I have an underwater camera just in case I crash my car into a river, and at the last minute I see a photo opportunity.
~ Mitch Hedberg
She could not move fast against the weight of water, not against a mounted man, so she did the only thing she could and hurled the boar spear across the horse's path, straight into the bank.
~ Nicola Griffith