#weak

If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities. ↗

— Barbara Bush

#capabilities #dull #grow #human #human beings

Brooke and I share some similarities. We're both passionate, fiercely loyal people. But she is far more outlandish than I'd ever be, particularly with her body and her sexuality. Brooke has made herself weak for men - she only gained self-confidence from their attention. ↗

— Sophia Bush

#body #both #brooke #ever #far

The economy has become seriously unbalanced. Its growth has not been driven by investment or by overcoming Britain's long-standing weaknesses in investment and productivity, particularly skills. Instead, there has been a binge of debt-financed consumer spending. ↗

— Vince Cable

#been #binge #britain #consumer #driven

You then get into a period a few years ago, where a lot of external factors that we didn't have anything to do with did hit, and some of them at the same time... devaluations, weak economies, you name it, in various parts of the world. ↗

— Jim Cantalupo

#anything #did #economies #external #factors

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#discouragement #distinguishes #impossibilities #obstacle #permanence

The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised. ↗

— Andrew Carnegie

#compromise #compromised #contradictory #defeat #men

Sometimes, because of my success, I am afraid that I was not a good father. With the first two I was too strong, and with the other three I was too weak. ↗

— Roberto Cavalli

#am #because #father #first #good

We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people. ↗

— Jackie Chan

#arts #fight #get #helping #helping people

My sense of proprietorship has been so weak that actually I didn't pay attention and I lost the copyrights on a lot of the songs. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#attention #been #i #lost #lot

Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#every #excess #however #itself #minds