Sarah Lacy

As I've written before, China's ability to be the assembly line to the world wasn't where its role in the global economy ended; it was where it began. An ability to make products cheaper than anywhere else gave way to an ability to make high end products more nimbly than anywhere else.

American Journalist

Laurene Powell Jobs

The beauty of having an LLC in today's world is No. 1, you have the ability to act and react as nimbly as need be to create change, and you have the ability to invest politically, in the for-profit sector and the nonprofit sector simultaneously.

American Philanthropist

James Gleick

Basic dictionaries no longer belong on paper; the greatest, the 'Oxford English Dictionary,' has nimbly remade itself in cyberspace, where it has doubled in size and grown more timely and usable than ever.

American Author

Use 'nimbly' to describe quick, graceful physical movements, as in sports or dance.

Physical Agility

'Nimbly' can describe actions that aren't physical but are done efficiently, almost with an ease of thought.

Not Literally

'Nimbly' often appears in metaphors, comparing non-physical actions to agile movements.

Metaphorical Use

When someone performs a task 'nimbly', it suggests they're not only quick but also proficient.

Effective Performance

Use 'nimbly' when someone adjusts to new situations efficiently and successfully.

Adaptable Responses

'Nimbly' can show mental sharpness, especially in intellectually demanding contexts.

Mental Acuity

 The ox came in second, with the powerful tiger right behind him. The rabbit, too small to battle the current, nimbly hopped across stones and logs to come in fourth. Next came the dragon, who could have flown directly across, but stopped to help some creatures she had encountered on the way. After her came the horse, galloping across the river.

The myth behind the...

 inspires me to practice the art of careful observation and to be able to navigate nimbly between things as large as a distant landscape and a small and ethereal as curls of smoke now that humans are able to discover and to shape the world on the nano scale these are