Top 159 Adept Quotes & Sayings

Im pretty adept with computers and Photoshop for my blog, and I found my style with a conversational voice and an image-ready column.

Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.

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

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!

In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.

Those who were adept and brave fellows I have made military commanders. Those who were quick and nimble I have made herders of horses. Those who were not adept I have given a small whip and sent to be shepherds

Passive aggressors who are adept at this will have trained themselves to remain calm, while you get irritated and emotional.

I don't have social media, and I'm not, I guess, that adept at being on the Internet.

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.

To waste! You are unknown and unwanted, save by me. This, because you are fairly adept at the various embalming arts and you occasionally compose a clever epitaph.

Twitter was a mere prototype in 2006; now, many of us have become adept at saying all we have to say in 140 characters.

Language can be very adept at hiding the truth.

It's easier to be old than young. You make just as many blunders, but you've become much more adept at not recognizing them.

No human is more intelligent than the other...just more adept at certain areas of intelligence.

I'm blessed that I can leave it to the pros at work and red-carpet events, because I can't say I'm adept. Still, I'm definitely not afraid to take chances when it comes to beauty.

I'm intrigued by people who are super adept at manipulating their own image. We all do it to a certain extent.

Photography forces one out into the world, interacting with people and the environment. It flexes all those right brain, spatially-adept muscles.

We've proven to be quite flexible and adept in the way that we've changed what was the original pattern of air activities into something that's now very focused on the battlefield.

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.

I was relatively technically adept. I can edit and wire up a light.

Few bands in hard rock history have been so adept at balancing the awesome and trivial as Van Halen in their prime.

So different groups have different definitions, and then they clash on those. So it takes adept leadership to say we're going to work through these.

I'm not so adept at social media. It's not my forte.

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 it snarls, “That’s radical!” Society has good reason to fear the radical. Every shaking advance of mankind toward equality and justice has come from the radical. He hits, he hurts, he is dangerous. Conservative interests know that while liberals are most adept at breaking their own necks with their tongues, radicals are most adept at breaking the necks of conservatives.

Bureaucracy is adept at protecting its nest.

By all indications, American business leaders are more adept at creating business strategies than they are skilled at human capital management. American entrepreneurs are world-beaters when it comes to creating new businesses, and corporate managers are adept at using the latest marketing, financial, and technological practices.

I've been so used to being supported by musicians, and I don't class myself as a particularly adept musician on instruments. I think I'm a songwriter.

France has long been regarded as the most adept at stealing trade secrets.

You become adept at mixing different colours, looks and trends as you grow older.

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.

Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative.

Americas are, for a variety of reasons, the most adept at producing the kind of entertainment that delivers easy satisfactions.

Humans are, by nature, pattern-seeking, storytelling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns whether they exist or not.

I convinced myself I hadn't seen anything, ... I had done this many times before ... I was adept at erasing reality.

Self-doubt creates the impetus for learning but hinders adept use of previously established skills

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.

I think Trump had this general populist agenda but has not been particularly adept at using the levers of power in Washington.

Becoming adept at the process of self inquiry and symbolic insight is a vital spiritual task that leads to the growth of faith in oneself.

This American government has become very adept at attaching labels to people who defend themselves, so that the general population in America will condone their behavior.

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.

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.

Kundalini can be transmitted. A person who is very adept at the enlightenment process can transmit it. Whether you feel it or not, it's affecting you in a very positive way.

American culture is very good at interpersonal relationships and people skills, whereas we're incredibly adept at academics and straightforward 19th-century Victorian education.

Politics is more than policy, right. Like, one thing that has occurred to me is Bernie Sanders is clearly a very adept and able politician, right. But he spent 30 years being a very adept and able politician in an almost entirely white state.

Quite a different thing is, if a seeker, dissatisfied by materialism and doctrines, and longing for spiritual support, will ask advice and information of an adept. In such a case the adept is obliged to supply the seeker with spiritual light and insight, according to his mental powers. Then the magician should spare neither time nor pains to communicate his spiritual treasures and lead the seeker to the light.

I was very adept at acquiring languages.

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

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.

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.

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

Every politician, in order to be a politician, has to be adept at the art of one and one thing only, and that is lying.

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.

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.

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.

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

The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.

The Holy Guardian Angel is the spiritual Sun of the Soul of the Adept.

The more you perform, the more adept you get at the nuances of navigating that communal conversation.

Remember always that we are pattern-seeking primates who are especially adept at finding patterns with emotional meaning.

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.