Weakness Quotes - Page 38

• Praise of power leads to weakness; Love of things leads to loss; The wise one leads by filling people's hearts; He destroys illusion and disturbs those who believe they are wise; He does nothing yet everything happens.

  Laozi

  Wise, Believe, Heart

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• The Four Keys of Great Managers: When selecting someone, they select for talent ... not simply experience, intelligence or determination. When setting expectations, they define the right outcomes ... not the right steps. When motivating someone, they focus on strengths ... not on weaknesses. and When developing someone, they help him find the right fit ... not simply the next rung on the ladder.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Determination, Keys, Expectations

  Marcus Buckingham, Curt Coffman (2014). “First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• Thanks to our cinctures and corsets we have succeeded in making an artificial being out of woman. She is an anomaly, and Nature herself, obedient to the laws of heredity, aids us in complicating and enervating her. We carefully keep her in a state of nervous weakness and muscular inferiority, and in guarding her from fatigue, we take away from her possibilities of development. Thus modeled on a bizarre ideal of slenderness to which, strangely enough, we continue to adhere, our women have nothing in common with us, and this, perhaps, may not be without grave moral and social disadvantages.

  Paul Gauguin

  Law, Anomalies, Development

  Paul Gauguin (1987). “Gauguin: a retrospective”, Hugh Lauter Levin Associates

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• While we may continue to use the words
  smart and stupid, and while IQ tests may
  persist for certain purposes, the monopoly
  of those who believe in a single general
  intelligence has come to an end. Brain
  scientists and geneticists are documenting
  the incredible differentiation of human capacities, computer programmers are creating systems that are intelligent in different ways, and educators are freshly acknowledging that their students have distinctive strengths and weaknesses.

  Howard Gardner

  Smart, Stupid, Believe

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• Some of us are born with a weakness for music. As a baby, music would stop whatever thought I was having. If I was worried, it would stop me worrying; if I was crying, it would stop me crying. Music was a healing thing for me.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Baby, Healing, Worry

  "This much I know: Andrea Bocelli" by Tim Lewis, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2012.

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• The greatness of Michael Jordan is his competitive drive. The weakness of Michael Jordan is his competitive drive

  Phil Jackson

  Basketball, Greatness, Nba

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• I know the strengths and weaknesses of my teammates. I make my passing decisions accordingly

  Steve Nash

  Basketball, Nba, Decision

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• So sometimes things are ahead and sometimes they are behind; Sometimes breathing is hard, sometimes it comes easily; Sometimes there is strength and sometimes weakness; Sometimes one is up and sometimes down. Therefore the sage avoids extremes, excesses, and complacency.

  Laozi

  Strength, Breathing, Balance

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• Weakness and strength are necessary for balance. No one or nothing is only weak or only strong. But some of us overlook our weaknesses, and even deny that we have them. That can be dangerous, because denying there is a weakness is in itself a weakness. Likewise, accepting that we have weaknesses becomes a strength. And by the same token, overestimating strength is a weakness. You should not be blinded by your strengths. The feeling of strength is not the same as having strength. Neither should you ignore your weaknesses. Know them well, too.

  Joseph M. Marshall III

  Strength, Being Strong, Native American

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• Heartbreaks, disappointments and even our own weaknesses can serve as stepping-stones to the second half of life transformation. Failings are the foundation for growth. Those who have fallen, failed or 'gone down' are the only ones who understand 'up.'

  Richard Rohr

  Inspiring, Disappointment, Growth

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• Your weaknesses will never develop, while your strengths will develop infinitely.

  Donald O. Clifton

  Focus

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• Yes, forget your weakness, whatever that weakness may be. It is egotism, it is selfishness after. all, for it is a dwelling on self. Forget your weakness; and remember your strength.

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot

  Self, Dwelling, House

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot (Bishop of Durham) (1890). “Ordination addresses and counsels to clergy”

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• With a little time, and a little more insight, we begin to see both ourselves and our enemies in humbler profiles. We are not really as innocent as we felt when we were first hurt. And we do not usually have a gigantic monster to forgive; we have a weak, needy, and somewhat stupid human being. When you see your enemy and yourself in the weakness and silliness of the humanity you share, you will make the miracle of forgiving a little easier.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Forgiveness, Hurt, Stupid

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• Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! Every fool, from king to policeman, from the flatheaded parson to the visionless dabbler in science, presumes to speak authoritatively of human nature. The greater the mental charlatan, the more definite his insistence on the wickedness and weaknesses of human nature.

  Emma Goldman

  Kings, Names, Wickedness

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.34, 谷月社

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• Still, instead of trusting what their own minds tell them, men have as a rule a weakness for trusting others who pretend to supernatural sources of knowledge.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Mind, Anarchy

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Religion, a Dialogue, Etc: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.53, 谷月社

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• To me, the main weakness of EDA is its failure to enquire why the data were collected in the first place and its consequent tendency to apply ingenious methods largely because they are so attractively ingenious.

  Michael Healy

  Data, Statistics, Firsts

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• Ah, you know my weaknesses--my children and my horses.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Horse, Children, Knows

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• A morality that holds need as a claim, holds emptiness-non-existence-as its standard of value; it rewards an absence, a defect: weakness, inability, incompetence, suffering, disease, disaster, the lack, the fault, the flaw-the zero.

  Ayn Rand

  Zero, Suffering, Inability

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.32, Penguin

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• Humility can weep over other men's weaknesses, and joy and rejoice over their graces.

  Thomas Brooks

  Humility, Men, Joy

  Thomas Brooks (1824). “The select works of ... Thomas Brooks”, p.461

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• People who, as children, were intellectually far beyond their parents and therefore admired by them, but who also therefore had to solve their own problems alone. These people, who give us a feeling of their intellectual strength and will power, also seem to demand that we, too, ought to fight off any feeling of weakness with intellectual means. In their presence one feels one cannot be recognized as a person with problems just as they and their problems were unrecognized by their parents, for whom he always had to be strong.

  Alice Miller

  Strong, Children, Mean

  Alice Miller (2008). “The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self, Third Edition”, p.58, Hachette UK

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• An intimate relationship is one in which neither party silences, sacrifices, or betrays the self and each party expresses strength and vulnerability, weakness and competence in a balanced way.

  Harriet Lerner

  Party, Sacrifice, Intimate Relationships

  Harriet Lerner (2009). “The Dance of Intimacy: A Woman's Guide to Courageous Acts of Change in Key Relationships”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• When we take time to quiet ourselves, we can all sense that our life could be lived with greater compassion and greater weakness.

  Jack Kornfield

  Compassion, Quiet, Take Time

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• The strength in gold is revealing the general weakness in the dollar.

  Peter Schiff

  Gold, Dollars, Revealing

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• Truly brilliant marketing happens when you take something most people think of as a weakness and reposition it so people think of it as a strength.

  Reed Hastings

  Success, Business, Thinking

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• Be the best. No negativity. No weakness. No acquiescence to fear or disaster. No errors of ignorance. No evasion to reality

  Jeff Buckley

  Ignorance, Reality, Errors

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