#weaknesses

I'm hard on myself, so I'm working on shifting perspective toward self-acceptance, with all my flaws and weaknesses. ↗

— Gwyneth Paltrow

#hard #i #myself #perspective #shifting

My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order. ↗

— Dolly Parton

#always #been #men #order #weaknesses

Mr. Chairman, on September 11, we were attacked by terrorists who took advantage of weaknesses in our border security. After infiltrating our country, the terrorists were able to conceal their real identities, and thereby plot their attacks without fear of being apprehended. ↗

— Jim Ryun

#advantage #after #apprehended #attacked #attacks

Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others. ↗

— George Santayana

#emotional #emotional life #life #never #others

I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses. ↗

— Carlos Santana

#down #i #knuckle #weaknesses

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

— Marilyn vos Savant

#developing #eliminating #our #strengths #success

To discern what weaknesses and faults separate you from God, you must enter into your own inward ground and then confront yourself. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

#discern #enter #faults #god #ground

The incorrectness and weaknesses of a theory cause other minds to formulate the problems more exactly and in this way scientific progress is made. ↗

— Robert Barany

#exactly #formulate #his way #made #minds

The key to any game is to use your strengths and hide your weaknesses. ↗

— Paul Westphal

#game #hide #key #strengths #use

I see that I've become a really bad correspondent. It's not that I don't think of you. You come into my thoughts often. But when you do it appears to me that I owe you a particularly grand letter. And so you end in the "warehouse of good intentions": "Can't do it now." "Then put it on hold." This is one's strategy for coping with old age, and with death--because one can't die with so many obligations in storage. Our clever species, so fertile and resourceful in denying its weaknesses. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#death #friendship #humanity #procrastination #weaknesses