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

Learning, Young, More, Avoiding, Even

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

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, Mathematics, Team, Men

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

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, First Step, Know

I was very adept at acquiring languages. Anna Held

Very, Languages, Acquiring

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, Kind, Order

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, Things Happen, Bad

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

Construction, True, More, Become

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, Different

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, Digging

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, Excel, How, PowerPoint

The level of dynamism is a matter of how fertile the country is in coming up with innovative ideas having prospects of profitability, how adept it is at identifying and nourishing the ideas with the best prospects, and how prepared it is in evaluating and trying out the new products and methods that are launched onto the market. Edmund Phelps

Best, Ideas, Trying, Country, New, Up

I was a hyperactive kid, and it took awhile for me to find the right teacher. My master was a Shaolin kung fu teacher, but he also taught tai chi, Chinese medicine, brush painting - he was adept at all facets of Chinese culture. Daniel Wu

Teacher, Culture, Painting, Me, Medicine

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, Follows

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, I May Not, 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, Business, Future, 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, Consumers

I grew up loving watching movies, and at a certain point, I started to become fascinated with making movies. Then I went to film school, and I got to dabble with different aspects of moviemaking, and I ended up settling heavily into editing - editing was what I was really adept at, had a passion for. Lee Unkrich

Passion, School, Movies, Loving, Editing

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

Girl, Friends, Very, Just, Guys, Making

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

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, Know, You

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, Run, Key, Play

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, World, Think, Classic, I Think, He

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, Book, Lunch, Think, Radio, More

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, Sister, Women, Mother, Influence

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