Adept Quotes

62 quotes by 57 authors

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… — Sloane Crosley
I think that perhaps the classic propagandists of the - in the Second World War was Winston Churchill. He was extremely skilled and adept at… — Alexander Haig
Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative. — Ian Mcewan
Companies have long gathered data to break down their customer base into specific segments. Now political parties have become adept at micro-targeting, too, using data… — James Surowiecki
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… — James Surowiecki
Let the liberal turn to the course of action, the course of all radicals, and the amused look vanishes from the face of society as… — Saul Alinsky
Humans are pattern-seeking story-telling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns, whether they exist or not. — Michael Shermer
The photographer is an armed version of the solitary walker reconnoitering, stalking, cruising the urban inferno, the voyeuristic stroller who discovers the city as a… — Susan Sontag
In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it. — George Bernard Shaw
Madame Lefoux acted as midwife. In her scientific way, she was unexpectedly adept at the job. When the infant finally appeared, she held it up… — Gail Carriger
Language can be very adept at hiding the truth. — Dan Brown
Women, on average, tend to be more aware of their emotions, show more empathy, and are more adept interpersonally. Men on the other hand, are… — Daniel Goleman
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… — Kim Cattrall
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… — David Perlmutter
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… — Weili Dai
The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it. — P.J. O'Rourke
One of the hallmarks that a British actor brings to his public persona is an adept sense of self-deprecation - see Daniel Craig and Damian… — Stephen Rodrick
Photography forces one out into the world, interacting with people and the environment. It flexes all those right brain, spatially-adept muscles. — Deborah Copaken Kogan
I was relatively technically adept. I can edit and wire up a light. — Ian Hart
You are adept at breaking up the relationship I had alreadybroken relationships pasting are skills you have, it did not know me! But maybe you… — Mak_786

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