Quotes About Dexterity

The dragonfly is an exceptionally beautiful insect and a fierce carnivore. It has four wings that beat independently. This gives it an ability to maneuver in the air with superb dexterity. A dragonfly can put on a burst of speed, stop on a dime, hover, fly backward, and switch direction in a flash. This is a hunting behavior known as hawking.

I like to play in the middle, even though I can play on both wings.

I can't text. My fingers are too big.

One of my teachers used to call me Prince, because I always had a way of charming myself in and out of different situations.

AMBIDEXTER  (AMBIDE'XTER)   n.s.[Lat.]1. A man who has equally the use of both his hands. Rodiginus, undertaking to give a reason of ambidexters, and left-handed men, deliverth a third opinion.Brown'sVul. Err.2. A man who is equally ready to act on either side, in party disputes. This sense is ludicrous.

The ultimate explanation is why we have two hands and ten fingers to start with, and why are we prone with them to do thus and so and not something else.

People were born with two hands; why not use both of them? As it was, swordsmen fought with only one sword, and often one hand. This made sense, so long as everybody followed the same practice. But if one combatant were to employ two swords at once, what chance would an opponent using only one have of winning?

I have quick hands.

Basketball's all about speed and quickness.

I think I could have adapted to left-handed golf better to right-handed batting.

Every habit makes our hand more witty, and out wit more handy.

Lefty Grove could throw a lamb chop past a wolf.

I just always had a knack for handling and passing the rock and making things happen.

Base Ball, to be played thoroughly, requires the possession of muscular strength, great agility, quickness of eye, readiness of hand, and many other faculties of mind and body that mark the man of nerve.

I did play a lot of fingerstyle when I first started playing. I could never really find the right combination of flatpick or fingerpick, so playing fingerstyle is really the easiest way - though it's quite strenuous on the fingertips.

Making yourself switch to your left hand is thus an exercise in self-control. You can resolve to use your left hand instead of your habitual right hand for brushing your teeth, using a computer mouse, opening doors, or lifting a cup to your lips.

So by the time I taught myself the bass guitar at the age of 14, my hands were already pretty nimble.

Marriage was often a matter of dexterity, in Willa's experience.

Manly deeds, womanly hands.

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

She could already imagine the dexterity with which Mallory's arched dark eyebrows would rise, and the answer which didn't need saying.

He had, I thought, Morgan's hands: strong-fingered, capable.

I'm not graceful.

I can't really grip the ball with my left hand.