Adept Quotes

• Obama is a very good actor. He knows how to play it. And he is very adept at creating this ''Obama'' - this character who is there whenever the world needs something.

  Jon Voight

  Character, Play, Usa

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• Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.

  Dee Hock

  Past, Substance, Form

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• The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Veteran, Young, Avoiding

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• I was very adept at acquiring languages.

  Anna Held

  Language

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• Once you're in a particular country, and you're surrounded by musicians who are so adept at traditional music, you suddenly realize how much there is to explore and digest and learn and experience.

  Evelyn Glennie

  Country, Musician, Realizing

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• The bottom line is how do we best provide for the security of the traveling public in light of a determined enemy who is adept at constructing well-designed, well-concealed devices which would not show up in a walk-through metal detector? We're trying to employ the best technology to identify any possible threat.

  John S. Pistole

  Technology, Light, Enemy

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• In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Struggle, Ambition, Novices

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• I'm relatively physically adept and I like throwing myself around. Once, twice, but then you get to nine, ten, eleven and to try and make it look realistic all the time, that's not very pleasant.

  Marton Csokas

  Trying, Looks, Nine

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Americas are, for a variety of reasons, the most adept at producing the kind of entertainment that delivers easy satisfactions.

  Todd Gitlin

  Satisfaction, Entertainment, Kind

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• The more you perform, the more adept you get at the nuances of navigating that communal conversation.

  Ted Alexandro

  Nuance, Conversation

  "Laughing at something is a form of accepting it, or at least making peace with it". Interview with Chris Cobb, logger.believermag.com. September 19, 2014.

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• Women bring with them into the world a certain virtue, a divine gift that makes them adept at instilling such qualities as faith, courage, empathy and refinement in relationships and in cultures.

  D. Todd Christofferson

  Empathy, Being A Mother, Quality

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• No human is more intelligent than the other...just more adept at certain areas of intelligence.

  Siddharth Katragadda

  Intelligent, Certain, Humans

  "Dark Rooms: A Saga". Book by Siddharth Katragadda, 2002.

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• Self-doubt creates the impetus for learning but hinders adept use of previously established skills

  Albert Bandura

  Self, Skills, Doubt

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• The Holy Guardian Angel is the spiritual Sun of the Soul of the Adept.

  Aleister Crowley

  Spiritual, Angel, Soul

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• Bureaucracy is adept at protecting its nest.

  Ronald Reagan

  Nests, Bureaucracy

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• Despite his profound incompetence on many levels, Obama has been an adept propagandist who has blamed capitalism for problems caused and magnified by socialist remedies to justify further socialist solutions. He's now doing the same thing all over again as his new socialist solutions are failing.

  David Limbaugh

  Profound, Levels, Problem

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• I don’t know what’s the matter with me, why I’m so adept at distance, why I feel so remote from things, why life feels like a rumor.

  David Shields

  Distance, Rumor, Matter

  David Shields (2013). “How Literature Saved My Life”, p.5, Vintage

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• All things that ever were, that are, or that will be, having; their record upon the astral light, or tablet of the unseen universe, the initiated adept, by using the vision of his own spirit, can know all that has been known or can be known.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Light, Vision, Unseen

  H. P. Blavatsky, W. Q. Judge (1998). “Occult Tales”, p.207, Health Research Books

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• Learn to draw. Try to make your hand so unconsciously adept that it will put down what you feel without your having to think of your hands. Then you can think of the thing before you.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Thinking, Hands, Drawing

  Sherwood Anderson (1977). “The Portable Sherwood Anderson”, Viking Press

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• Using awareness, personal responsibility and inner work to review our unskillful or frightened reactions, we become more adept at turning habitual reactions to balanced responses. These moments are very exciting and gratifying.

  John Earle

  Inspirational, Responsibility, Moments

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• I first studied to be a preacher, but decided that I was too prone to tell big stories. Then I studied Blackstone for a while and soon learned that I was not adept enough at prevarication to make a successful lawyer. I then made up my mind that I would seek some field where I could tell big stories and tell the truth.

  Isaac Cline

  Successful, Mind, Stories

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• I convinced myself I hadn't seen anything, ... I had done this many times before ... I was adept at erasing reality.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Reality, Done, Convinced

  Bret Easton Ellis (2005). “Lunar Park”, p.146, Vintage

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• Joanna Priestley is one of the most interesting and adept personal animators and filmmakers. I have enjoyed her work for years and been amazed at how she gets into her own thoughts onto the screen in a very elegant and focused way. You have to see this.

  Gus Van Sant

  Years, Interesting, Way

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• I would advise you, Sir, to study algebra, if you are not an adept already in it: your head would get less muddy, and you will leave off tormenting your neighbours about paper and packthread, while we all live together in a world that is bursting with sin and sorrow.

  Samuel Johnson

  Sorrow, Together, Would Be

  "Johnsoniana, Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr. Johnson".

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• Yeah, I like to keep myself interested - I'll kind of throw myself into some area that I don't completely know or understand, that I'm not adept at, so I'm forced to swim in order to stay afloat. There's a good feeling that comes from that.

  David Byrne

  Order, Swim, Feelings

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