#weakness

Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses... on your powers, instead of your problems. ↗

— Paul J. Meyer

#concentrate #defeat #enter #every #giving

Usually that's going into biology in a certain way. There's certain strengths and weaknesses to both of the sexes. And I'm not against employing those nor am I against denying those, what I am looking for is a very large array of options. ↗

— Mark Morris

#am #array #biology #both #certain

There's nothing weak about beauty, child. The only weakness in it is if you think it means anything important. ↗

— Charlie Fletcher

#weakness #beauty

You know, the whole philosophy of ad hoc combinations has its strengths and its weaknesses. ↗

— Evan Parker

#combinations #know #philosophy #strengths #weaknesses

I think I'm good at amplifying an actor's strengths, and minimizing their weaknesses. And they all have strengths and weaknesses. ↗

— Steven Soderbergh

#good #i #i think #strengths #their

You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand? ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#cannot #fight #must #now #out

Just as a child respects his father even when he perceives his weaknesses and faults, so a German will not despise the old Germany which was once a symbol of greatness to him. ↗

— Gustav Stresemann

#despise #even #father #faults #german

Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster. ↗

— Agnes Smedley

#affection #been #caught #class #considered

The first months at Harvard were more than challenging, as I came to the realization that the humanities could be genuinely interesting, and, in fact, given the weaknesses of my background, very difficult. ↗

— Philip Warren Anderson

#came #challenging #could #difficult #fact

To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind. ↗

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#dominating #follow #human #human mind #mind