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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
Surrender
Balance
Technically
Become
Few
Control
Situation
Controlling
Incredibly
Neglected
Adept
Carried
Ourselves
Thousand
Thousand Years
Take
Part
Years
Surrendering
Then
Treasured
Last
Kept
The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.
P. J. O'Rourke
Learning
Young
Adept
More
Avoiding
Even
I was very adept at acquiring languages.
Anna Held
Adept
Very
Acquiring
Languages
I may not be as lyrically adept as Jay-Z and Morrissey, but at least I can sing what I feel.
Chris Martin
Lyrically
Adept
Feel
Sing
Least
May
Jay-Z
Few bands in hard rock history have been so adept at balancing the awesome and trivial as Van Halen in their prime.
Chuck Eddy
History
Few
Awesome
Adept
Van
Van Halen
Trivial
Prime
Halen
Balancing
Rock
Been
Bands
Hard
Hard Rock
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
Me
Culture
Master
Chi
Painting
Medicine
Took
Adept
Kid
Find
Facets
Brush
He
Also
Kung
Kung Fu
Taught
Chinese
Chinese Culture
Right
Awhile
Twitter was a mere prototype in 2006; now, many of us have become adept at saying all we have to say in 140 characters.
David Horsey
Saying
Become
Twitter
Adept
Say
Characters
Mere
Prototype
Us
Many
Now
Most states, for all their rhetoric in favour of free trade, are adept at trying to manipulate markets to protect and advantage their own producers.
Dominic Grieve
Free
Own
Adept
States
Markets
Favour
Free Trade
Advantage
Most
Protect
Trade
Trying
Rhetoric
Manipulate
Producers
I'm not so adept at social media. It's not my forte.
Ezra Furman
Social Media
Adept
Social
Forte
Media
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
You
Fight
National
Field
Think
Adept
Kind
Ability
Directly
Court
Go
Continue
Front
Legislative
Different
Which
Frustrated
Public
Engagement
Rifle
Association
Donald Trump has proven adept at mobilizing anti-immigrant and anti-trade sentiment among a minority of Americans into a strong movement that seeks to put the United States first in global affairs. Yet, his is not the majority's view.
Ivo Daalder
Strong
Minority
First
Sentiment
Adept
States
Seeks
Put
Global
Majority
Proven
Affairs
His
Trump
American
Donald
Donald Trump
Movement
View
United
United States
Among
Freedom is the thing that has attracted me most to jazz. Within improvisation, you're really able to express something that maybe I'm not so adept at expressing via language. So I develop a language through the instrument to tell stories. So it's kind of this freedom of thought and freedom of expression that kind happens.
Jason Moran
Freedom
Me
You
Language
Thought
Jazz
Adept
Tell
Kind
Able
Something
Through
Develop
Freedom Of Expression
Most
Attracted
Instrument
Within
Improvisation
Via
Maybe
Stories
Happens
Really
Express
Expressing
Expression
Thing
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
Digging
Reckoning
Adept
Kingdoms
Claws
Part
Like
Brain
Accomplishing
Any
Just
Loves
Your
Things
The Internet is especially adept at compressing humanity and making it easy to forget there are people behind tweets, posts, and memes.
Jenna Wortham
Humanity
People
Internet
Adept
Memes
Easy
Posts
Making
Forget
Behind
Tweets
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
Adept
Out
Pretty
Excel
Except
PowerPoint
How
Gotten
Brag
Use
Figure
The bottom line is how do we best provide for the security of the traveling public in light of a determined enemy who is adept at constructing well-designed, well-concealed devices which would not show up in a walk-through metal detector? We're trying to employ the best technology to identify any possible threat.
John Pistole
Best
Technology
Enemy
Light
Adept
Possible
Security
Would
Threat
Detector
Determined
Constructing
Bottom
Bottom Line
Devices
Employ
Identify
Metal
How
Line
Provide
Up
Trying
Any
Which
Public
Show
Who
Traveling
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
Work
Thoughts
You
Book
Emotions
Better
Distract
Lost
Nothing
Adept
Read
Another
Off
Than
Person
Getting
Turning
Your
Letting
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
Adept
Williams
Characters
Both
Tennessee
Tennessee Williams
Particular
Vulnerable
Fallible
Were
His
Huge
Huge Influence
Influence
Who
Portraying
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
Editing
School
Passion
Become
Settling
Adept
Point
Had
Got
Making
Making Movies
Up
Ended
Different
Grew
Loving
Moviemaking
Movies
Then
Really
Certain
Aspects
Certain Point
Fascinated
Dabble
Film
Film School
Started
Watching
I'm relatively physically adept and I like throwing myself around. Once, twice, but then you get to nine, ten, eleven and to try and make it look realistic all the time, that's not very pleasant.
Marton Csokas
Time
Myself
You
Try
Realistic
Pleasant
Nine
Relatively
Once
Adept
Ten
Physically
Throwing
Like
Look
Make
Around
Very
Get
Then
Twice
Eleven
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
Time
Science
Adept
Vanishing
Magazines
Varied
Fact
Writers
Read
Becoming
In Fact
Anymore
Newspapers
Hardly
I have a lot of girl friends who are very adept at making friends, and guys are just not.
Rashida Jones
Girl
Adept
Guys
Making
Lot
Friends
Very
Just
Who
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
Reading
Shoes
Adept
Pleasure
Airplane
Definitely
Airport
Touching
My Time
Area
Foot
Removing
Rediscovered
Surface
Am
Least
Sitting
Painfully
Large
Now
Floor
Amount
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 Lewis.
Stephen Rodrick
Sense
Adept
Daniel
See
His
Persona
Craig
Public
Actor
Brings
British
Lewis
I think Trump had this general populist agenda but has not been particularly adept at using the levers of power in Washington.
Ross Douthat
Power
Think
I Think
Adept
General
Had
Particularly
Been
Trump
Agenda
Using
Washington
Populist
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