White balance dropper

Is there a way to make the eyedropper for Lightroom White Balance persist? In ACR I can select the eyedropper and click around the image to see the white balance from various points. In Lightroom after I click a spot the eyedropper is no longer active and I have to go select it again...
This is really slow and it'd be handy if I could click multiple spots... Is there a way to do this?

The people that designed the keyboard shortcuts and the user commands for LR did a great job. It's just a joy to use with the keyboard. There are always 3 ways to do the same thing and one of them works just right for me.

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    Didn't know you could drag inside a value field - that's helpful.
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