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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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• 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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• 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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• I still have my quickness, but I turn it on and off. I don't want to fail in anything I do and that's why I'm hard on myself.

  Kenny Anderson

  Want, Failing, Turns

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• We need strength, we need energy, we need quickness and we need brain in this country to turn it around.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Brain, Energy

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• A sluggish, dawdling, and dilatory man may have spasms of activity, but he never acts continuously and consecutively with energetic quickness.

  George Stillman Hillard

  Men, Sloth, May

  George Stillman Hillard (1864). “Life and Campaigns of George B. McClellan, Major-general U. S. Army”, p.360, Gale Cengage Learning

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• You should not only have attention to everything, but a quickness of attention, so as to observe at once all the people in the room--their motions, their looks and their words--and yet without staring at them and seeming to be an observer.

  Lord Chesterfield

  People, Rooms, Looks

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.20, Oxford University Press

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• Youth has a quickness of apprehension, which it is very apt to mistake for an acuteness of penetration.

  Hannah More

  Mistake, Youth, Penetration

  Hannah More (1835). “The Works of Hannah More”, p.360

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• That which we call wit consists much in quickness and tricks, and is so full of lightness that it seldom goes with judgment and solidity; but when they do meet, it is commonly in an honest man.

  King James I

  Men, Honest, Tricks

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• I have to use my strengths, which [are] my speed, my quickness and my movements. If I do that, I really believe that I will come out on top.

  Manny Pacquiao

  Believe, Use, Movement

  Interview with Dave Golokhov, www.askmen.com. November 13, 2009.

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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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• domestic work is the most elementary form of labor. It is suitable for those with the intelligence of rabbits. All it requires is cleanlines, tidiness and quickness - not moral or intellectual qualities at all, but merely the outward and visible signs of health.

  Rebecca West

  Intellectual, Quality, Rabbits

  Rebecca West (1982). “The Young Rebecca: Writings of Rebecca West, 1911-17”

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Let us be ashamed of our slowness in thanking God when He gives, and of our quickness in grumbling at Him when He takes away.

  Nikolaj Velimirovic

  Love, Gratitude, Peace

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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 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 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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• 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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• ... 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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• '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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