He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand times more exa...ct than anything they may say. He is impelled by inertia, rather than curiosity, and nothing is more unlike the submissive apathy with which he hears his fate revealed than the alert dexterity with which the man of courage lays hands on the future.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What then is the difference between film and theatre? Or should one not rather ask: what are the differences? Let us be content wi...th the reply that the screen has two dimensions and the stage three, that the screen presents photographs and the stage living actors. All the subtler differences stem from these. The camera can show us all sorts of things--from close-ups of insects to panoramas of prairies--which the stage cannot even suggest, and it can move from one to another with much more dexterity than any conceivable stage. The stage, on the other hand, can be revealed in the unsurpassable beauty of three-dimensional shapes, and the stage actor establishes between himself and his audience a contact real as electricity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Patience, to hear frivolous, impertinent, and unreasonable applications: with address enough to refuse, without offending; or, by ...your manner of granting, to double the obligation: dexterity enough to conceal a truth, without telling a lie: sagacity enough to read other people's countenances: and serenity enough not to let them discover anything by yours; a seeming frankness, with a real reserve. These are the rudiments of a politician; the world must be your grammar.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Keep your own secret, and get out other people's. Keep your own temper, and artfully warm other people's. Counterwork your rivals ...with diligence and dexterity, but at the same time with the utmost personal civility to them: and be firm without heat.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This laudable quality is commonly known by the name of Manners and Good- breeding, and consists in a Fashionable Habit, acquir'd b...y Precept and Example, of flattering the Pride and Selfishness of others, and concealing our own with Judgment and Dexterity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I hate to paint portraits! I hope never to paint another portrait in my life.... Portraiture may be all right for a man in his you...th, but after forty I believe that manual dexterity deserts one, and, besides, the colour-sense is less acute. Youth can better stand the exactions of a personal kind that are inseparable from portraiture. I have had enough of it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I was so sick and faint, so overcome at the brutality of this fiendish sport, that I hardly heard the shouts of "Bravo! bravo!" an...d the fanfaronade of trumpets.... I do not know which astonished me the most, the strikingly curious, brilliant coup d'oeil, the dexterity of the men, the intrepidity of the animals, the miserable unfair play, or the pleasure of the spectators.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For he is the cleanest in the use of his forepaws of any quadruped. For the dexterity of his defense is an instance of the lo...ve of God to him exceedingly.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We have been struggling along for several hundred years with our system of education ... the question of what we should do for the... Negro and the Indian races in their almost helpless condition as we found them after the [Civil] War. The necessity for helping this condition led [General Armstrong, founder of the institution], to undertake this system of education, that the manual dexterity, united with the teaching of life as it was to be ... not alone for Negroes and Indians, but for the white people throughout this land.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »