#strengths

Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#developing #eliminating #our #strengths #success

You work enough with someone and you develop a shorthand. You know how he likes to work through the day and he knows where you're vulnerable and where your weaknesses and strengths are, so it makes for a good team, a team that knows who's over there behind your back. ↗

— David Strathairn

#behind #day #develop #enough #good

I'm constantly watching people. Watching their strengths and weaknesses. I find myself going into theater less and less, let alone horror. I gave that up when I was seven or eight years old. ↗

— Jonathan Frid

#constantly #eight #find #gave #going

I hope in my books I help children to see their strengths, and show them I have some idea of what they may occasionally be going through. Especially at tricky moments when it is easier to go back and evade things rather than go forwards and confront them. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#books #children #confront #easier #especially

We must draw on the unique strengths of the Japanese economy, seek an open and cooperative approach with our international partners, and intelligently exploit the promise of new growth areas. ↗

— Yoshihiko Noda

#areas #cooperative #draw #economy #exploit

My demons, inner strengths and physical battles have guided me through life. ↗

— GG Allin

#demons #guided #inner #life #me

One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt. ↗

— Dorothy Allison

#am #background #class #class background #contempt

Those albums are so important to me because, for the first time, I was making my own music, paying for it, finding strengths in it, and going through the process of finding the right music for the record. ↗

— Randy Bachman

#because #finding #first #first time #going

You always have certain strengths and certain weaknesses, and you want to compensate for your weaknesses... I have a real duty to earn the trust of the faculty. I don't just deserve it. I have to earn it. ↗

— Erskine Bowles

#certain #compensate #deserve #duty #earn

I believe we have become paralyzed, paralyzed by our desire to be loved. Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing, and that this country's principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passions and the emotions of the times. ↗

— Chris Christie

#become #believe #country #desire #emotions