I’m learning how strong I am, how resilient I am. I’m learning my weaknesses.
Acting tough is all about developing an attitude and a persona that says, ‘Look at how great I am.’ But often, that tough exterior is meant to hide self-doubt. Mentally strong people invest more energy into working on their weaknesses rather than trying to cover them up.
I’ve got a lot of weaknesses. One of them is that I often get scared and tense when I’m working – and fear is one of the big threats to any good performance, because it closes you down and makes it harder for you to produce life in front of the camera.
The biggest challenge we all face is to learn about ourselves and to understand our strengths and weaknesses. We need to utilize our strengths, but not so much that we don’t work on our weaknesses.
Getting married and really digging in with another human being can point out your greatest strengths and your greatest weaknesses.
Curb Your Enthusiasm, is not so much about Hollywood. It’s more about Larry’s weaknesses.
For the weaknesses I have with spelling and all those other things with being dyslexic, I have a lot of other strengths also.
What Steve Nash and Chris Paul do is they kind of hide your weaknesses.
Cars, furs, and gems were not my weaknesses.
Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.
Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress balances, explore secret weaknesses, demolish legends.
It is the knowledge that all men have weaknesses and that many have vices that makes government necessary.
I love to argue. I’ve always loved to argue. And I love to point out the weaknesses of the opposing arguments. It may well be that I’m something of a shin kicker. It may well be that I’m something of a contrarian.
The happiest people I know as a nation are the Burmese; their brightness and cheeriness are proverbial. Kindness to animals is one of their greatest ‘weaknesses’; no Burmese will kill an animal, even if it is to put it out of pain.
The thing about the NBA, if you have a weakness, they are going to expose it on the first day of practice. You have to get rid of your weaknesses, and your strengths have to be as sharp as anything.
In 2009, when I was Health Minister, we re-engineered our business processes to examine the weaknesses and opportunities in our health system. Following that exercise, we established a public health emergency management system from national to district level to prevent and provide rapid response to outbreaks.
Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.
I stick to bread-and-butter bodybuilding. I hit my muscles from various angles, work on bringing up any weaknesses, and design workouts that are always challenging and helping me progress.
To say we have to play a certain way, or try to, every game is great in theory, but depending what players you have got you have to play to their strengths and cover up their weaknesses.
I celebrate my weaknesses.
Management relationship, it’s very unique. You have to bare all of your weaknesses and warts and all for them to effectively manage you.
Would I still be playing at the top level at the age of 37 years if I had any weaknesses?
Before I go up against the best forwards in the world – Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi, Neymar – I study their strengths and weaknesses like an obsession, and then I plan how I am going to attack. My goal is to show the world that Dani Alves is on the same level.
Ever since I was a child, I have loved being the centre of attention, but similarly, I can’t remember a time in my life that I haven’t battled with all sorts of quandaries, fears and weaknesses.
We all have a tendency to avoid our weaknesses. When we do that, we never progress or get any better.
I had the brain for football, but I didn’t have the height. So I started using my brain to overcome those weaknesses and discovered football isn’t just about size or power: it’s about what’s up there. That was the making of me.
As for my speed, I’m not the fastest, but just like in other sports, you learn to stay away from your weaknesses and make more use of your strengths: my shooting ability, court awareness, rebounding, and helping out defensively.
You know, I analyze my faults and my weaknesses very carefully. I’m very hypercritical of myself.
I know my strengths and weaknesses, and I play to them.
We all fail, and we all have weaknesses. I think that’s what helps us relate to characters we see on TV or read in books, is that we recognize our frailties within them and maybe don’t feel so alone. We get to learn from their mistakes.
Luckily, I’m in a band with two other guys who really pull their own weight and have the skills and abilities to compensate for my weaknesses.
I surround myself with people that have certain strengths that are my weaknesses so they push me in certain areas.
If you’re confident, then you don’t feel weird about showing your vulnerability and opening yourself up to learning from somebody else. Insecure people stay where they are because they’re afraid of admitting their weaknesses.
Well, shoes, bags and clutches are usually my big weaknesses – my husband always laughs when I call them ‘investment pieces.’
Fitness, defending, the mental stuff – those were all weaknesses of mine. And I turned those into strengths.
No country can be complacent in making sure that excessive debt of the household doesn’t create excesses and weaknesses in the financial system. Everything is interconnected.
I think when you are playing at the international level, there is so much television exposure that people are looking at your weaknesses and strengths, and you need to fox them at times. You have got to do something different.
One of my weaknesses is that I actually have a conscience.
Human love is often but the encounter of two weaknesses.
We need to defend against weaknesses within and enemies without, using the tools of civil society and hard power. We don’t have to pick one over the other.
