Quotes About Dexterity

What good is in dexterity of playing with logic when your weak soul retreats from difficulties?

I've never seen anyone actually hit a bouquet away quite like that," a deep, dark male voice drawled. "Got to say, it was impressive.

Hands are integral with brains, almost another lobe for intelligence. What one does not know through one's hands, one does not truly know.

When I was a girl, the crows knew when I was on my way to chase them from the fields, and how long I'd stay once I got there. They would bide their time, keeping me in sight until I'd completed my rounds. Then they'd descend on our fields. But their feet limit them from eating foods with hard shells. They are nowhere near as dexterous, or as smart, as parrots.

If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.

knitters use both hands

I think that's one of my main attributes. My movement, my speed, my feet.

Human beings thought with their hands. It was their hands that were the answer of curiosity, that felt and pinched and turned and lifted and hefted. There were animals that had brains of respectable size, but they had no hands and that made all the difference.

According to Goleman, IQ can influence the profession one enters. My IQ, for instance, is way too low for a career in astrophysics. But within a profession, mastery of L-Directed Thinking matters relatively little. More important are qualities that are tougher to quantify, the very kinds of high-concept and high-touch abilities I've been mentioning—imagination, joyfulness, and social dexterity.

A man's best friends are his ten fingers.

Design is something you have to put your hand to.

I think I've gotten really good at putting on lashes. I can do it with my hand while people need tweezers or something to put them on.

There aren't too many left-handed guys out there who can handle the ball and shoot it.

I can't draw right or left-handed!

I always wanted to be ambidextrous, ever since I was a little girl. I wanted to be able to use both hands, and I still use my left hand a lot.

If you've got short, stubby fingers and wear reading glasses, any relaxation you would normally derive from fly fishing is completely eliminated when you try to tie on a fly.

The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

The simplicity or imperfection of external objects often serves to develop the activity and the dexterity of the pupils. This

When she goes about her kitchen duties, chopping, carving, mixing, whisking, she moves with the grace and precision of a ballet dancer, her fingers plying the food with the dexterity of a croupier.

When you become a good cook, you become a good craftsman, first. You repeat and repeat and repeat until your hands know how to move without thinking about it.

Here's a guy who can use his arms and legs at the same time.

Fast pitch softball is just as dangerous as baseball. The ball is bigger so you can see it better, but the size also makes for a bigger space to move out of its way.

Knowing how to do things not just with the head, but with the hands as well: this might seem a programmatic and ideological goal. It is not. It is a way of safeguarding creative freedom.

Good Heaven, friend, do not trouble yourself. He will be a clever man who catches me in this way. I know all the cunning tricks and subtle devices which women use to deceive us, and how one is fooled by their dexterity, and I have taken precautions against this mischance. She whom I am marrying possesses all the innocence which may protect my forehead from evil influence.