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Control and surrender have to be kept in balance. That's what surfers do - take control of the situation, then be carried, then take control. In the last few thousand years, we've become incredibly adept technically. We've treasured the controlling part of ourselves and neglected the surrendering part. Brian Eno

Balance, Control, Situation, Surrender

Bad things happen. And the human brain is especially adept at making sure that we keep track of these events. This is an adaptive mechanism important for survival. David Perlmutter

Brain, Survival, Important, Bad, Events

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

Good, Myself, Feeling, Know, Understand

The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it. P. J. O'Rourke

Learning, Young, More, Avoiding, Even

A leader who is self-aware enough to know that he or she is not adept at everything is one who has taken the first step toward being a great leader. Marshall Goldsmith

Great, Leader, Step, First Step, Know

I was very adept at acquiring languages. Anna Held

Very, Languages, Acquiring

Like any good RPG, 'Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning' is adept at digging its claws into that part of your brain that just loves accomplishing things. Jason Schreier

Good, Brain, Things, Like, Just, Your

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

Construction, True, Become, More

Technology certainly is going faster. Dynamics on the battlefield are faster. And so, I think you do need, you know, a warrior that is adept in technology, you know, certainly skilled. Ryan Zinke

Technology, Think, Warrior, You, Know

The Internet is especially adept at compressing humanity and making it easy to forget there are people behind tweets, posts, and memes. Jenna Wortham

People, Humanity, Internet, Easy, Forget

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

Life, Me, Know, Distance, Feel, Matter

Tennessee Williams was so adept at portraying characters who are both fallible and vulnerable. Women were a huge influence in his life, his mother and sister in particular. Kim Cattrall

Life, Women, Mother, Sister, Influence

Innovation has its limits, of course, and Salesforce has proved adept at supplementing its growth with acquisitions, a tool long available to older rivals like Oracle and SAP. Adam Lashinsky

Growth, Innovation, Limits, Long, Like

I've discovered as an author that the process of writing a novel becomes harder over time, not easier. I used to think the reverse must be true, that it would be like any task, and the more I practiced, the more adept I'd become. Tawni O'Dell

Time, Writing, Process, Think, Be True

I'm pretty adept with computers and Photoshop for my blog, and I found my style with a conversational voice and an image-ready column. Robert Mankoff

Style, Computers, Voice, Pretty, Blog

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

Women, Science, Team, Mathematics, Men

I'm not technically adept at music, but I'd love to be part of a discussion of where progressive rock ends and country music begins. William Shatner

Love, Music, Rock, Country, Discussion

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

Girl, Friends, Just, Who, Making, Lot

I'm intrigued by people who are super adept at manipulating their own image. We all do it to a certain extent. K. Flay

People, Own, Image, Who, Super, Certain

Obama has proved to be particularly adept at using the media to disseminate his administration's messages, but he is a masterful orator. Bill Clinton, too. Rebecca Traister

Media, He, Administration, Bill Clinton

If we continue to fight the National Rifle Association on their home court, which is the legislative front, I think we'll continue to be frustrated. But when you have an ability to go directly to the public, that's a completely different field of engagement, and I think the NRA is not adept at that kind of engagement. Gavin Newsom

Home, Fight, Think, You, Kind, Ability

I may not be as lyrically adept as Jay-Z and Morrissey, but at least I can sing what I feel. Chris Martin

Feel, I Can, I May Not, Sing, May, Least

The successful entrepreneurs on the free market will be the ones most adept at anticipating future business conditions. Yet, the forecasting can never be perfect, and entrepreneurs will continue to differ in the success of their judgments. If this were not so, no profits or losses would ever be made in business. Murray Rothbard

Success, Future, Business, Free, Perfect

In the market, the fittest are those most able to serve the consumers; in government, the fittest are those most adept at wielding coercion and/or those most adroit at making demagogic appeals to the voting public. Murray Rothbard

Voting, Government, Serve, Market, Most

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

Success, Future, Past, Clothing, Those

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

Music, Experience, Musicians, You, Learn

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