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This collection holds 12 dexterity quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Napoleon Bonaparte, Kelly Hu and Chai Lu.

They are ordered so that each author has a say before anyone repeats, which means the first page gives you the range of the topic rather than one writer's back catalogue.

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Kelly Hu / Actress

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

Chai Lu

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

Judith Leiber / Designer

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.

Edward Gibbon / Historian

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

Napoleon Bonaparte / Military Commander

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

Walter Benjamin / Literary Critic

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.

Sonia Sotomayor / Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States

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.

Adam Smith / Philosopher

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.

Lord Chesterfield / British Statesman

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.

Jess Walter / Author

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.

Anthony Powell / Novelist

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.

Napoleon Bonaparte / Military Commander

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

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