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 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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• 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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• 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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• I was very adept at acquiring languages.

  Anna Held

  Language

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

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Veteran, Young, Avoiding

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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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• 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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• 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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• In the past, when we were initially organizing to bring about changes, our elders had little or no political experience. However, today, most of those American Indian Movement organ-izers are the elders. They are quite adept at bringing attention to the public about any attacks upon our people.

  Leonard Peltier

  Past, People, Political

  Source: montanapioneer.com

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• I have a lot of girl friends who are very adept at making friends, and guys are just not.

  Rashida Jones

  Girl, Guy, Making Friends

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• My life as a painter influences my teaching and my duties as president of CCA - and I hope some of the experience of working at an exciting art school also spills over into my studio work. I believe most artists are adept at juggling multiple responsibilities - whether it's work, teaching, caring for family members or attending to relationships - with their studio commitment.

  Stephen Beal

  Art, Teaching, Believe

  Interview with Jason-Louise Graham, jasonlouise-graham.squarespace.com. Novemeber 19, 2010.

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• I am not against standardized tests. There are tests and tests and tests, and, to simplify, the ones I favor are criterion-referenced tests of skills, aligned with the curriculum. Social and emotional skills are important but skills are too. I find it heartbreaking that this is so often seen as an either-or choice. To get to the richness of studying literature, for example, you must first be an adept and confident reader. Whether you are is something a good test can measure.

  Nicholas Lemann

  Emotional, Skills, Choices

  "Ask the Author Live: Nicholas Lemann on Higher Education". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. September 20, 2010.

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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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• Modern value-neutral society (Gesellschaft rather than Gemeinschaft) is systematized predation tempered not by conscience or values but rather merely by a system of law, which is no less corrupt with private interests and its own forms of predation. In modernity sophism is the order of the day, and this obliges its most adept practitioners to learn how to develop the art of appearing to be other than one actually is.

  Kenny Smith

  Art, Philosophy, Order

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• Becoming adept at the process of self inquiry and symbolic insight is a vital spiritual task that leads to the growth of faith in oneself.

  Caroline Myss

  Spiritual, Self, Growth

  Caroline Myss (2013). “Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing”, p.192, Harmony

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