Quotes About Dexterity

The key is in the craft.

There's a lot of intelligence in the hands.When you pick up a shovel, the hands know what to do. The same thing's true of sitting at the piano.

How'd you get in here?" She raised her eyebrows. "You pick pockets." Kat watched his hand fly to his back pocket. "I can pick locks. Looking for this?" she asked, holding up his wallet. "Oops. Maybe I can pick pockets too.

I've been blessed with great hand-eye coordination.

There's the craft of acting, and then there's a quality. There's a quality that someone has.

His fingers never ceased to amaze me. They could break a man's neck, bandage a wound, and slide sensually across bare skin.

A man does not rise to become the Queen's butler unless he is gifted with extraordinary ingenuity, adaptability, versatility, dexterity, cunning, sophistication, sagacity, discretion, and a host of other talents than neither you nor I possess. Mr Tibbs had them all.

the hunter's tools are deadly weapons, capable not only of feeding him and his family, but of defending his life, liberty, and property against predators and thieves—including tax collectors. Requiring more subtlety and dexterity than raw power, they can be wielded to good effect by women, or even children.

As a result, humans can perform very intricate tasks with their hands. In particular, they can produce and use sophisticated tools.

They had physical dexterity that people today are unable to achieve even after years of practising yoga or t'ai chi.

They had physical dexterity that people today are unable to achieve even after years of practising yoga or t'ai chi. The

They moved with a minimum of effort and noise, and knew how to sit, walk and run in the most agile and efficient manner. Varied and constant use of their bodies made them as fit as marathon runners. They had physical dexterity that people today are unable to achieve even after years of practising yoga or t'ai chi.

Great cooking favors the prepared hands.

I feel like I've always been a pretty good ballhandler. It's kind of like second nature to me.

The tap of the backboard, that's a lot of body control, I've gotta be hanging in the air for a quite a bit of time.

The greatest improvement in the productive powers of labour, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity, and judgment with which it is anywhere directed, or applied, seem to have been the effects of the division of labour.

Whatever be the actual state of the skill, dexterity, and judgment, with which labour is applied in any nation, the abundance or scantiness of its annual supply must depend, during the continuance of that state, upon the proportion between the number of those who are annually employed

But this proportion must in every nation be regulated by two different circumstances: first, by the skill, dexterity, and judgment with which its labour is generally applied; and, secondly, by the proportion between the number of those who are employed in useful labour, and that of those who are not so employed.

She was, surprisingly, an exquisite dancer

The field itself required a particular mode of thinking. Not merely the standard mathematical skills but a visual dexterity that could retain complex constructions in the mind for long periods of time, transforming certain parameters while leaving others intact. It was a strenuous and disobliging intellectual endeavor, a sea change of thought in which the brain performed multidimensional mapping.

Don't rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head.

There are times I'm approaching turns with my right hand on the brake lever, I'm downshifting with my fingers, I'm controlling the throttle with my left hand and steering into the corner with only one hand on the wheel. I feel a bit like Jimi Hendrix: I play with both my hands.

Robots are very tricky to design and expensive, whereas humans are cheaply manufactured. Humans can handle things with greater manual dexterity than most robots I've known.

I'd really like to be able to whistle with two fingers. Is this a biological thing? Is it to do with the teeth? Who teaches people to do this? How do I learn?