#shortcomings

For eleven months and maybe about twenty days each year, we concentrate upon the shortcomings of others, but for a few days at the turn of the New Year we look at our own. It is a good habit. ↗

— Arthur Hays Sulzberger

#concentrate #days #each #eleven #few

History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior. ↗

— Vladimir Putin

#authoritarian #democratic #devised #dictatorships #forms

Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings. ↗

— Laurence J. Peter

#correct #enables #faults #our #parents

Perhaps, if you weren't so busy regarding my shortcomings, you'd find that I do possess redeeming qualities, discreet as they may be.  I notice when the sky is blue.  I smile down at children.  I laugh at any innocent attempt at humor.  I quietly carry the burdens of others as though they were my own.  And I say 'I'm sorry' when you don't.  I am not without fault, but I am not without goodness either. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#faults #goodness #judging #judging-people #richelle

To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain exclusive occupation is coupled with specific shortcomings, it is likewise almost certainly divorced from certain other shortcomings. ↗

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

#almost #certain #certainly #coupled #divorced

The Committee's review of a series of intelligence shortcomings, to include intelligence prior to 9/11 and the pre-war intelligence on Iraq, clearly reveal how vital a diverse intelligence workforce is to our national security. ↗

— Jane Harman

#committee #diverse #how #include #intelligence

The only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping and showing off his shortcomings. ↗

— David Niven

#get #his #laugh #life #man

I knew that part of friendship consisted in accepting a friend’s shortcomings, which sometimes included his parents. ↗

— John Knowles

#shortcomings #friendship

No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of our own. ↗

— Franz Grillparzer

#cause #intolerant #more #other #our

Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters. ↗

— Margaret Halsey

#begin #characters #defects #dwell #engaging