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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, Situation, Control, Surrender

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

Learning, Young, Avoiding, More, Even

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, Think, Writing, True, Process

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, Feel, Distance, Know, Matter

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, Understand, Know

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

Leader, Great, Step, Enough, She, 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, Internet, Humanity, Forget, Easy

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, Perfect, Free

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, Your, Things, Like, Just

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'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, Found

I was very adept at acquiring languages. Anna Held

Very, Languages, Acquiring

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, Go, Ability

We have to move into the 21st century, but we should do so with great care to build a 'bi-literate' brain that has the circuitry for 'deep reading' skills and, at the same time, is adept with technology. Maryanne Wolf

Technology, Time, Great, Brain, Deep

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

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, Country, Rock, 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, Very, Guys

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, You, Warrior, Know

I think that perhaps the classic propagandists of the - in the Second World War was Winston Churchill. He was extremely skilled and adept at it. Alexander Haig

War, Think, World, Classic, He, I Think

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, Sing, May, I May Not, Least

Teaching regularly has made me an even more adept reader, I think. The kind of teaching I do is more like editing than anything else. The kind of editing book editors used to do before lunch. The kind of editing I used to do as a radio documentary maker. Paul Muldoon

Me, Lunch, Radio, Think, Book, Editing

Speculators get a bad rap. In the popular imagination they're greedy, heedless, and amoral, adept at price manipulations and dirty tricks. In reality, they often play a key role in making markets run smoothly. James Surowiecki

Imagination, Reality, Bad, Play, Key

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

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

Government, Voting, Most, Serve, Market

Newspapers and magazines are vanishing. But science writers are not. In fact, they are becoming so adept and varied that I hardly have time to read 'Gawker' anymore. Michael Specter

Science, Time, Fact, Newspapers, Read

I definitely rediscovered reading for pleasure by devoting such a large swath of my time to sitting on airplanes. I am now painfully adept at removing my shoes so as to have the least amount of foot surface area touching an airport floor. Sloane Crosley

Time, Shoes, I Am, Reading, Sitting, Now

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