Adept Quotes - Page 2

• I've been so used to being supported by musicians, and I don't class myself as a particularly adept musician on instruments. I think I'm a songwriter.

  PJ Harvey

  Thinking, Class, Musician

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, music.avclub.com. December 12, 2007.

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• It's true that stammerers can become more adept at sentence construction.

  David Mitchell

  Construction, Sentences

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• We are exceptionally good at seeing the faults in others and exceptionally adept at ignoring the faults in ourselves.

  Robert Barron

  Faults, Seeing

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• I communicate much better with cats, usually. I know them and their body language - as my own cats know mine very well. Cats are adept at reading subtle signals.

  Marge Piercy

  Reading, Cat, Body

  Source: margepiercy.com

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• Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself.

  Aristophanes

  Deceit, Get Money, Deceived

  Aristophanes (2012). “The Ecclesiazusae”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• Politics is more than policy, right. Like, one thing that has occurred to me is Bernie Sanders is clearly a very adept and able politician, right. But he spent 30 years being a very adept and able politician in an almost entirely white state.

  Chris Hayes

  Years, White, Able

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• The historic transition from Novice to Proficient to Adept was said to be accomplished virtually overnight by the progression from marijuana to peyote to lysergic acid. Instant mysticism had arrived. Before the court of law, hippies demanded freedom for LSD the way early Christians demanded freedom for the Eucharist.

  William Everson

  Christian, Hippie, Marijuana

  William Everson (1988). “The Excesses of God: Robinson Jeffers as a Religious Figure”, p.5, Stanford University Press

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• It is pure mythology that women cannot perform as well as men in science, engineering and mathematics. In my experience, the opposite is true: Women are often more adept and patient at untangling complex problems, multitasking, seeing the possibilities in new solutions and winning team support for collaborative action.

  Weili Dai

  Team, Men, Winning

  "Women! Embrace your inner geek" by Weili Dai, www.cnn.com. March 7, 2012.

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• Style to me is incidental. The British are very adept at creating it for its own sake, but the best style is incidental. John Coltrane had a style but it was totally incidental to what he was.

  Tom Verlaine

  Creating, Style, Sake

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• My muse can take the form of a landscape, an era, a style of writing, a piece of music, and, perhaps that which I find strangest of all for a muse, a human female. Of course, she's also adept at taking the form of toothless old Japanese men or young English lads with tattoos.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Tattoo, Writing, Men

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• The traditional model for a company like Coca-Cola is to hire one big advertising agency and essentially outsource all of its creativity in that area. But Coca-Cola does not do it that way. It knows how to manage creative people and creative teams and it has been quite adept at building a network that includes the Creative Artists Agency in Hollywood, which is a talent agency.

  John Kao

  Team, Creativity, Artist

  Interview with Joel Kurtzman, www.strategy-business.com. October 1,1996.

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• Some findings reveal extroverts as more adept at reading nonverbal cues, and attribute this to the extrovert's greater interest and experience with social interactions. Another line of research using subliminal images of facial emotion found introverts to be more sensitive to the differences, and hypothesized that this may be why introverts regulate the amount of incoming social information.

  Laurie Helgoe

  Reading, Differences, Research

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I'm always hearing warnings about keeping your belongings close to you [in Ho Chi Minh City] as thieves who ride motorbikes are adept at snatching things off a person as they ride by, but I personally have never seen it. Funny though, I don't hear folks talk about pick pockets but it's happened to me twice. Beware of that cute little sweetheart and stay away from those talented little hands.

  Doug Rice

  Cute, Hands, Cities

  Source: www.expatarrivals.com

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• There were some parts of the film [Swiss Army Man] that the Daniels [Kwan and Scheinert] really wanted to look as elegant as a piece of ballet. As Hank and Manny go on in the story, they get better and better at being with each other and more and more adept - Hank knows more and more what Manny's going to need at any given point, and having that choreography helps a bit.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Army, Men, Ballet

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Sherlock Holmes becomes more human and more adept at fitting in with a lot of people, but he remains separate from the human race because he finds that a better place to observe that from. He stays on the mountain top because there, he can see clearly.

  Steven Moffat

  Race, People, Mountain

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm so busy trying to breathe through the pain that I'm breathing through the pain of being with people, and that is no way to spend a life. Eventually, they'll just go away, because you will make them sad. That's something I've proven quite adept at doing over the years.

  Adam Duritz

  Pain, Breathing, Years

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• This American government has become very adept at attaching labels to people who defend themselves, so that the general population in America will condone their behavior.

  Leonard Peltier

  Government, America, People

  Source: montanapioneer.com

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• So different groups have different definitions, and then they clash on those. So it takes adept leadership to say we're going to work through these.

  Michael Emerson

  Groups, Different, Definitions

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I like words and numbers. I'm obsessed with them. You know, I think I would've been a mathematician had I kept up, but it's the stuff in your head, you know? It's like being technologically adept. You have it or you don't. You can learn it, but some people just have it. They go to sleep, wake up, and know everything. I like games, too. I love playing games.

  Jackee Harry

  Sleep, Thinking, Playing Games

  "Jackée Harry on 227, Ladybugs, and why she wants to be the next Maggie Smith". Interview with Marah Eakin, tv.avclub.com. February 26, 2016.

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• One of the big myths about people growing up is that they are "digital natives;" that just because they've been raised with the Internet - that you're very adept at using the app on your phone - it doesn't mean you have any idea about how the Internet actually works.

  Astra Taylor

  Growing Up, Mean, Phones

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Humans evolved brains that are pattern-recognition machines, adept at detecting signals that enhance or threaten survival amid a very noisy world. ... But there is only one surefire method of proper pattern recognition, and that is science.

  Michael Shermer

  Brain, Survival, Machines

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• I'm close to my audience. I think I have more tools in my box than other guys who might try it. Also, I know how to do this stuff. I know how to write and shoot and edit. I'm technically adept and that helped with the website. You need a big skill set.

  Louis C. K.

  Writing, Thinking, Skills

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

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• One of the many ways of contesting level-zero, and one of the best, is to take photographs, an activity in which one should start becoming adept very early in life, teach it to children since it requires discipline, aesthetic education, a good eye and steady fingers.

  Julio Cortazar

  Zero, Children, Eye

  Julio Cortazar (2016). “Hopscotch, Blow-Up, We Love Glenda So Much”, p.705, Everyman's Library

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• International terrorists who pursue completely mad objectives such as establishing a world caliphate or something of the sort, are quite adept at disguising their real aims as a struggle for independence in Chechnya.

  Vladimir Putin

  Real, Struggle, Mad

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• I am secretive. Always have been. And one way that secrecy manifested in my early life was that I was adept at juggling multiple social realities: I could get by no problem in many social arenas (including that of high school), but also felt alienated and totally uninspired by everything that happened there.

  Melissa Febos

  School, Reality, Way

  Source: therumpus.net

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