Definition of Quickness

Quickness

The condition or quality of being quick or living; life.

Activity; briskness; especially, rapidity of motion; speed; celerity; as, quickness of wit.

Acuteness of perception; keen sensibility.

Sharpness; pungency of taste.

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Quickness Quotations

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.
George Santayana

If the quickness of the mind and the fluency of the tongue are too punctilious and sharp, moderate them in your activity and rest.
Xun Zi

Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness.
Mark Rothko

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
Alfred North Whitehead

As an athlete, I used my speed, agility and quickness to go out and play against the big guys.
Michael Chang

Speed is a great asset; but it's greater when it's combined with quickness - and there's a big difference.
Ty Cobb

I was captain and should have set the example. I would lift a minimum of weights. Mine was natural physical strength. I always thought quickness and agility were much more important.
Merlin Olsen

Digital for storage and quickness. Analog for fatness and warmth.
Adrian Belew

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.
Henry Chadwick

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Quickness Translations

quickness in German is Flinkheit
quickness in Latin is celeritas
quickness in Norwegian is raskhet
quickness in Spanish is prontitud

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