Quotes About Dexterity

Walpole has no intellect. A mere surgeon. A wonderful operator but, after all, what is operating? . . . . Manual labour.

I always had a good dexterity. The story in my family goes that at the age of 3 I could thread needles faster than anybody.

Anything over-handed, I do left-handed. Like throwing a ball or serving in tennis. Otherwise, right-handed, like writing and shaving.

I'm good at extending plays and finding throwing lanes.

In all feats of fire-eating it should be noted that the head is thrown well back, so that the flame may pass out of the open mouth instead of up into the roof, as it would if the head were held naturally.

Yeah, I've got quick thumbs.

Sometimes I think opposable thumbs were invented so teenage girls could use text messaging.

You don't want to be a one-trick pony. On a lot of Smiths songs, I used a pick or a plectrum, and for some of the slow songs, I used my thumbs and my fingers. That's why I love the bass - it's adaptable, and you can express yourself so well with it.

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

There is no body cavity that cannot be reached with a number fourteen needle and a good strong arm.

I'm like a circus standing on two legs.

Loss of sleep hurts attention, executive function, working memory, mood, quantitative skills, logical reasoning, and even motor dexterity.

You need three or five hands to play Ligeti.

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

The short, fat fingers moved like dancing sausages across the strings;

Jayfeather was already expertly separating

He turned to face me. "Not all of us can be talkers like you. Besides, I'm better with my hands." I dropped my eyes. Damn my overactive imagination.

This is where the whole ape-descended thing reveals its worth, I thought madly. Sucks to be you, quadruped. Opposable thumbs - don't leave home without them.

He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand times more exact than anything they may say. He is impelled by inertia, rather than curiosity, and nothing is more unlike the submissive apathy with which he hears his fate revealed than the alert dexterity with which the man of courage lays hands on the future.

I think when you're running through a hole and you're hit in certain, different ways, you have to be able to move and change and make people miss.

juggling knives with poisoned edges.

I think that black people, to a degree, need to have a certain level of dexterity. If we want to be at the highest level of whatever our field is, we have to be able to navigate both worlds. We all just know that you gotta be able to put that suit on and have a conversation with people that don't look like you or your family.

Even though I'll do finger warm-ups that go up and down the neck to build up my chops and dexterity, I never, ever sit around and practice the actual licks I'm gonna play live. If you do, then you'll be all worried about the complexity of getting the fingering right and everything else about it, as opposed to the feel.

Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.