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The Holy Guardian Angel is the spiritual Sun of the Soul of the Adept. -- Aleister Crowley
As the master politician navigates the ship of state, he both creates and responds to public opinion. Adept at tacking with the wind, he also succeeds, at times, in generating breezes of his own. -- Stewart Udall
Remember in any case, that not only the Adept, but anyone with the smallest capacity for Adeptship, is fundamentally an Artist; he will certainly not possess any of those bourgeois "virtues" which are just so many reactions to Blue Funk. -- Aleister Crowley
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 landscape of voluptuous extremes. Adept of the joys of watching, connoisseur of empathy, the flÃ¢neur finds the world 'picturesque. -- Susan Sontag
The historic transition from Novice to Proficient to Adept was said to be accomplished virtually overnight by the progression from marijuana to peyote to lysergic acid. Instant mysticism had arrived. Before the court of law, hippies demanded freedom for LSD the way early Christians demanded freedom for the Eucharist. -- William Everson
I was very adept at acquiring languages. -- Anna Held
It's true that stammerers can become more adept at sentence construction. -- David Mitchell
I have a lot of girl friends who are very adept at making friends, and guys are just not. -- Rashida Jones
Americas are, for a variety of reasons, the most adept at producing the kind of entertainment that delivers easy satisfactions. -- Todd Gitlin
Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future. -- Dee Hock
Few bands in hard rock history have been so adept at balancing the awesome and trivial as Van Halen in their prime. -- Chuck Eddy
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Few of us boggle - though we should - at the fact that Louis Armstrong sang and played trumpet with similar panache, or that Leonard Bernstein and Benjamin Britten were equally adept as composers, conductors and pianists. -- Terry Teachout
People in America and Hollywood are very good at pronouncing my name, to begin with. Socially, they're very adept at listening to somebody's name and repeating it, cleverly in the first couple of sentences so the name sticks to begin with. -- Ioan Gruffudd
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
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
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
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
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
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 on shopping habits, leisure activities, voting histories, charity donations, and so on, in order to pinpoint likely supporters and the type of appeal most likely to win them over. -- James Surowiecki
Bureaucracy is adept at protecting its nest. -- Ronald Reagan
Language can be very adept at hiding the truth. -- Dan Brown
I was relatively technically adept. I can edit and wire up a light. -- Ian Hart
Self-doubt creates the impetus for learning but hinders adept use of previously established skills -- Albert Bandura
No human is more intelligent than the other...just more adept at certain areas of intelligence. -- Siddharth Katragadda
Man is adept at navigating the globe and beyond - yet doubt finding his own destiny -- Gino Norris
The more you perform, the more adept you get at the nuances of navigating that communal conversation. -- Ted Alexandro
Remember always that we are pattern-seeking primates who are especially adept at finding patterns with emotional meaning. -- Michael Shermer
We are exceptionally good at seeing the faults in others and exceptionally adept at ignoring the faults in ourselves. -- Robert Barron
I convinced myself I hadn't seen anything, ... I had done this many times before ... I was adept at erasing reality. -- Bret Easton Ellis
Humans are pattern-seeking story-telling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns, whether they exist or not. -- Michael Shermer
Photography forces one out into the world, interacting with people and the environment. It flexes all those right brain, spatially-adept muscles. -- Deborah Copaken
Photography forces one out into the world, interacting with people and the environment. It flexes all those right brain, spatially-adept muscles. -- Deborah Copaken
Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself. -- Aristophanes
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
Im 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
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. -- Terry Rossio
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
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. -- Caroline Myss
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. -- Michael Emerson
Entrepreneurs adopt the ways of the adept and adapt to a changing environment. Actually, entrepreneurs are more enterpreneurs, because they are forever entering into new territory. -- Jarod Kintz
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. -- Leonard Peltier
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. -- PJ Harvey
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. -- Roger Zelazny
I like communicating with cats. I know them and their body language - as my own cats know mine very well. Cats are adept at reading subtle signals. -- Marge Piercy
The left-hand path adept seeks to liberate him/herself from passive subjection to the illusory nature of Maya, thus freeing the consciousness from the binds of self-created delusion. -- Zeena Schreck
The chi is the central energy or power that we use in physical expression. When the chi is flowing properly in our lives, we can be very adept athletically. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Those who are already adept at some disciplines of the body will find that the study of Zen and meditation will give you much more control than you now have. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
As an audience member, I like watching Rupert as an actor when he's most playful, ... I think Rupert is really adept at comedy I think that's where his strength lies. -- Benjamin Bratt
I donâ??t know whatâ??s the matter with me, why Iâ??m so adept at distance, why I feel so remote from things, why life feels like a rumor. -- David Shields
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. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
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. -- Wesley Clark
Obama is a very good actor. He knows how to play it. And he is very adept at creating this ''Obama'' - this character who is there whenever the world needs something. -- Jon Voight
Women bring with them into the world a certain virtue, a divine gift that makes them adept at instilling such qualities as faith, courage, empathy and refinement in relationships and in cultures, -- D. Todd Christofferson
Using awareness, personal responsibility and inner work to review our unskillful or frightened reactions, we become more adept at turning habitual reactions to balanced responses. These moments are very exciting and gratifying. -- John Earle
Knowledge and wisdom must go hand in hand. The adept will therefore endeavour to get on in knowledge as well as in wisdom, for neither of the two must lag behind in development. -- Franz Bardon
International terrorists who pursue completely mad objectives such as establishing a world caliphate or something of the sort, are quite adept at disguising their real aims as a struggle for independence in Chechnya. -- Vladimir Putin
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
you pay a price for the 'gift' of an active imagination. While mine played a major part in making me a writer, it also made me adept at transforming run-of-the-mill molehills into towering mountain ranges. -- Jean Little

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