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• Why did the Lord give use so much quickness unless it was to avoid responsibility?

  Ogden Nash

  Responsibility, Giving, Use

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• our nerve filaments twitch with its presence
  day and night,
  nothing we say has not the husky phlegm of it in the saying,
  nothing we do has the quickness, the sureness,
  the deep intelligence living at peace would have.

  Denise Levertov

  War, Night, Nerves

  Denise Levertov, Peggy Rosenthal (2006). “Making Peace”, p.4, New Directions Publishing

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• The faster you blurt, the more swiftly you write, the more honest you are.

  Ray Bradbury

  Writing, Honest, Faster

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• There is a lightning quickness to the speed at which candidates can build and accidentally dismantle their own campaigns. If candidates don't figure out their place in the new digital world of politics, they will be destroyed by it.

  Bill Burton

  World, Digital, Lightning

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• A lot of improvisation ends up being about just thinking outside of the box in the scene. It's not improvisation as much as it is quickness or making it real.

  Jason Sudeikis

  Real, Thinking, Scene

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I always at home as a kid tried to move something with your hand and it doesn't move and then you get to do it in a movie. I mean my superpower is quickness but you know what I'm saying. You get a superpower and you're like "Man this is awesome. I get to pretend I have a superpower."

  Evan Peters

  Moving, Home, Mean

  Source: collider.com

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• I pride myself in being physically the best that I can be, whether its cardio, strength or quickness.

  Justin Cole

  Pride, Cardio, I Can

  Source: prod.www.chiefs.clubs.nfl.com

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• In seventh grade I gradually became aware that that quickness of feeling was something I was supposed to have outgrown. I was rather guileless, I think, or at least I was when it came to the people I cared about.

  Kevin Brockmeier

  Thinking, People, Feelings

  Source: therumpus.net

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• All that is worth seeing in good boxing can best be witnessed in a contest with soft gloves. Every value is called out: quickness, force, precision, foresight, readiness, pluck, and endurance. With these, the rowdy and 'rough' are not satisfied.

  John Boyle O'Reilly

  Boxing, Endurance, Rowdy

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• If the going is tough and the pressure is on, If the reserves of strength have been drained and the summit is still not in sight, then the quality to seek in the person is neither great strength nor quickness of hand, but rather a resolute mind firmly set on its purpose that refuses to let its body slack or rest.

  Edmund Hillary

  Sight, Hands, Mind

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• Competitive drills enhance quickness.

  Bobby Knight

  Drills

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• I think the big problem this country has is being politically correct. I've been challenged by so many people, and I don't frankly have time for total political correctness. And to be honest with you, this country doesn't have time either. This country is in big trouble. We don't win anymore. We lose to China. We lose to Mexico both in trade and at the border. We lose to everybody... We need strength, we need energy, we need quickness and we need brain in this country to turn it around.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Winning, Thinking

  Donald Trump during GOP primary debate at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, www.washingtonpost.com. August 6, 2015.

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• People compare me to Isiah Thomas because of my quickness and change-of-direction, the way I change speeds and run the team.

  Baron Davis

  Running, Team, People

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• It requires enormous presence of mind or rather quickness of wit, when opening your eyes to seize hold as it were of everything in the room at exactly the same place where you had let it go on the previous evening. That is why the moment of waking up was the riskiest moment of the day. Once that was well over without deflecting you from your orbit, you could take heart of grace for the rest of the day.

  Franz Kafka

  Heart, Eye, Presence Of Mind

  Franz Kafka, Stanley Corngold (1981). “The Metamorphosis”, Bantam Classics

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• There is a force, a quickness that is translated through you into action. If you block it, the world will not have it.

  Martha Graham

  Block, World, Action

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• Bob Dylan's one of the greatest blues singers of the western world; ancient art, on-the-spot improvisation, mind quickness, endless variation, classical formulae, prophetic vision, mighty wind-horse.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Horse, Art, Wind

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• Nothing we do has the quickness, the sureness, the deep intelligence living at peace would have.

  Denise Levertov

  Utopian

  Denise Levertov, Peggy Rosenthal (2006). “Making Peace”, p.4, New Directions Publishing

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• The success of Prozac says that today's high-tech capitalism values a very different temperament. Confidence, flexibility, quickness, and energy - the positive aspects of hyperthymia - are at a premium.

  Peter D. Kramer

  Energy, Different, Culture

  Peter D. Kramer (1994). “Listening to Prozac”, Sage

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• Legendary innovators like Franklin, Snow, and Darwin all possess some common intellectual qualities—a certain quickness of mind, unbounded curiosity—but they also share one other defining attribute. They have a lot of hobbies.

  Steven Johnson

  Snow, Intellectual, Curiosity

  Steven Johnson (2010). “Where Good Ideas Come From”, p.108, Penguin

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• ... you must hasten to oppose pernicious pride of mind, before it penetrates into the marrow of your bones. Resist it, curb the quickness of your mind and humbly subject your opinion to the opinions of others. Be a fool for the love of God, if you wish to be wiser than Solomon: 'If any man among you seem to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise' (I Cor. 3:18).

  Lorenzo Scupoli

  Wise, Christian, Pride

  Lorenzo Scupoli (1978). “Unseen Warfare: The Spiritual Combat and Path to Paradise of Lorenzo Scupoli”, p.94, St Vladimir's Seminary Press

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• As we go forth into the coming year, let it not be in the haste of impetuous, forgetful delight, nor with the quickness of impulsive thoughtlessness . But let us go out with the patient power of knowing that the God of Israel will go before us.

  Oswald Chambers

  Israel, Years, Knowing

  Oswald Chambers (2013). “Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers”, p.90, Discovery House

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• I submit that tennis is the most beautiful sport there is and also the most demanding. It requires body control, hand-eye coordination, quickness, flat-out speed, endurance, and that weird mix of caution and abandon we call courage. It also requires smarts. Just one single shot in one exchange in one point of a high-level match is a nightmare of mechanical variables.

  David Foster Wallace

  Beautiful, Sports, Smart

  "The String Theory" by David Foster Wallace, www.esquire.com. September 17, 2008.

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• 'You claim to be the man, you want me for a lover,
  So you can do my girlfriends and my sister and my mother?'
  I said, 'You're very blunt,' with quickness to the cue,
  'So whassup with your mother, does she look as good as you?'

  Dres

  Mother, Girlfriend, Rap

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• The poems in Helena Mesa’s virtuosic first book, Horse Dance Underwater, run with such speed, verve, and alacrity they leave you breathless, exhilarated, and transformed as if the purest kind of song had lifted you into the air.  By this quickness of language finding lyric speech, Mesa’s poems remind us of art’s joyous and ecstatic effects.

  Michael Collier

  Running, Song, Art

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• I have no great quickness of apprehension or wit which is so remarkable in some clever men, for instance Huxley

  Charles Darwin

  Clever, Men, Huxley

  Charles Darwin (2003). “On the Origin of Species”, p.443, Broadview Press

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