Quotes About Dexterity

The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.

It is not the stongest person who wins in life, but it is the most nimble, flexible, and adaptive person who wins in life.

A good pickpocket isn't afraid of intimacy.

Able hands' are more favorable to business than 'adorable hearts'.

Opposable thumbs are overrated.

The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

I can't palm a basketball.

It is a dreadful truth, but it is a truth that cannot be concealed; in ability, in dexterity, in the distinctness of their views, the Jacobins are our superiors.

Human beings evolved opposable thumbs for a reason. The sense of reward you get from making something with your hands can't be earned any other way. It's obvious that people learn faster from 'hands-on' experience than they do watching someone else do something.

Be able to blow out a dinner candle without sending wax flying across the table.

We cannot play soccer without hands. You need your arms while running.

I say the sweet science is to hit and not get hit.

I think the more you do as an actor, the more facility you have to switch on and off.

I can box, I can bang, I can switch, I can punch, I'm not slow.

I'm a pure lefty. Everything. I eat with my right hand, but when I was a kid, I was eating with my left. My mom was getting on me that that's not nice, so I switched my hands.

Sword fighting is just as fun as it looks on the screen.

Definitely an important aspect of my playing is keeping my hands in sync.

No, she did not denounce the impostor, but indubitably she made him aware that she knew he was not Eric Hagh. She may have done so merely by the way she looked at him, or she may have asked him some naive and revealing question. In any case, he knew he was in deadly peril from her, and he acted quickly and audaciously—and with dexterity, taking her keys from her bag. No, he is not a bungler, but—

Act fast but don't get tied into a single course of action.

I think my power comes from my hands.

The hands of a pianist, or a painter, or a sushi chef, or even, as with Thomas Newcomen, hands that could use a hammer to shape soft iron, are truly, in any functional sense,

To cut a man with a single blow is easy. To avoid being cut by a man is difficult.

Afterward, there was some debate as to whether we'd actually "done it properly," which gives you some idea of the awesome skill and artful dexterity of my lovemaking technique.

Workmanship is the application of technique to making, by the exercise of care, judgment, and dexterity.