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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 Leader

I was very adept at acquiring languages. Anna Held

Very, Languages, Acquiring

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

Voice, Pretty, Column

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

Years, Part, Ourselves

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

Some, Forced, Yeah

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

I Think, Frustrated

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

Mathematics, Possibilities

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

Young, More, Even

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

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

Tennessee Williams

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

Explore, Country, Surrounded

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, Country, Part

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

Using, Particularly

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

Making, Very, Lot

When you read a book, you are letting another person distract your thoughts and work your emotions. If they are adept, there's nothing better than turning off and getting lost. Karin Slaughter

Thoughts, Emotions, Read

Not to brag, but I do think I've gotten pretty adept on PowerPoint... except that I can't figure out how to use Excel! Jennifer Egan

Think, Pretty, Figure

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, Like, Feels

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

Play, Role, Amoral

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

Perfect, Entrepreneurs

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

Making, Fittest, Coercion

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

I May Not, May, Lyrically

The Left not only needs a victim class, it has proven adept at inventing new victim classes as a means of exacerbating social conflict. Tom Tancredo

New, Needs, Means

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

Think, I Think, Certainly

The worst thing for a kid is to move around and switch schools, but as an actor, you go from job to job, meeting strangers and becoming very close right away. I've become adept at that. John Cho

Worst Thing, Move, Very

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

Behind, Making, Tweets

Mubarak was adept, as were many other U.S.-backed dictators, at playing the sane middle to the 'lunatics with beards' he so often used as bogeymen to guarantee the support of foreign allies. Mona Eltahawy

Middle, Other, Guarantee

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