agility

Noun

Meaning

The quality of being agile; the power of moving the limbs quickly and easily; nimbleness; activity; quickness of motion; as, strength and agility of body.

Activity; powerful agency.

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Strength without agility is a mere mass. Fernando Pessoa

Large organizations cannot be versatile. A large organization is effective through its mass rather than through its agility. Fleas can jump many times their own height, but not an elephant. Peter Drucker

Mr. Astaire is the nearest approach we are ever likely to have to a human Mickey Mouse; he might have been drawn by Mr. Walt Disney, with his quick physical wit, his incredible agility. He belongs to a fantasy world almost as free as Mickey's from the law of Gravity. Fred Astaire

Tenderly Kala nursed her little waif, wondering silently why it did not gain strength and agility as did the little apes of other mothers. It was nearly a year from the time the little fellow came into her possession before he would walk alone, and as for climbing - my, but how stupid he was! Edgar Rice Burroughs

I've got miracle lyrical capability all in me / With the agility to escape a killer bee colony. Eminem

I have always had good strength in my legs from working out with weights. I have also been riding a bike of some sort for most of my life and have good agility. Mark-Paul Gosselaar

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