Dexterity Quotes

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.

It is only with prudence,
sagacity,
and much dexterity that great aims are accomplished,
and all obstacles surmounted.
Otherwise nothing is accomplished.

It is only by prudence,
wisdom,
and dexterity that great ends are attained and obstacles overcome.
Without these qualities nothing succeeds.

But the wisdom and authority of the legislator are seldom victorious in a contest with the vigilant dexterity of private interest.

Some aim to be deft, others to be laboriously careful. Neither dexterity nor conscientiousness is enough.

Slowly, but very deliberately, the brooding edifice of seduction, creaking and incongruous, came into being, a vast Heath Robinson mechanism, dually controlled by them and lumbering gloomily down vistas of triteness. With a sort of heavy-fisted dexterity the mutually adapted emotions of each of them became synchronized, until the unavoidable anti-climax was at hand.

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.

I never play video games! I'm so bad at it. I have, like, no manual dexterity.

And because he felt like he might burst open and because he lacked the dexterity in English to say all that he was thinking--how in his estimation, the more you lived the more regret and longing you suffered, that life was a glorious catastrophe--Pasquale Tursi said, only, "Yes.

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.

I've never had my dexterity called into question, but I think if that was ever the case, I could acquit myself by tossing a ball back and forth horizontally between my hands.

Keep your own secret, and get out other people's. Keep your own temper, and artfully warm other people's. Counterwork your rivalswith diligence and dexterity, but at the same time with the utmost personal civility to them: and be firm without heat.