The strengths and failings of a relationship depend entirely on your ability to talk about your feelings.
Whereas acting, you have to wait for someone else to give you the opportunity to do it, in comedy, you can just pick out your own strengths and be like, I’m just going to show the best bits to the world.
I don’t think women hold all the answers, but with their skills, their strengths, we can get to a better place.
There’s always great things that champions do. It can be inside fighting, this person uses his range well, this person has a great right hand – anytime you fight a champion, there’s multiple things that they do well, and you have to try to take those strengths away.
My workmanship and quality are my strengths.
‘StrengthsFinder 2.0’ is an effort to get the core message and language out to a much broader audience. We had no idea how well received the first strengths book would be by general readers – it was oriented more toward managers – or that the energy and excitement would continue to grow.
No tennis player is perfect. Even if you’re world #1, I don’t think, you still have things to improve on, and I’m not even close to that. So I am going to have weaknesses in my game; I am going to have strengths in my game, but I still have time to develop a lot of things, hopefully, and we’ll see how it goes.
You know, larger-than-life politicians have larger-than-life strengths and larger-than-life weaknesses.
I loved my computer; it’s a tool. A tool increases your mechanical advantages. It allows you to use your strengths and talents to greater advantage, and that’s what tools do, and that’s what my computer does for me. It’s not my toy, it’s my tool.
We were super successful under Mark Sampson because teams didn’t expect us to play the way we played. We were so direct and played to people’s strengths.
Our strengths or maybe our characteristic as a developer firm software used to maybe be known as a studio that put out unexpected, almost, like, quirky, very unique titles. Not that we’ve lost that charm in recent years, but that’s something that I really, really liked about our studio.
I always write to understand my place in the world. I can see myself and my life unfold on the page, and I can understand my strengths, my weaknesses – I can see where I need to step up a bit.
Sometimes your limitations become your strengths. It forces you to create your own niche.
Don’t think that there’s a different, better child ‘hiding’ behind the autism. This is your child. Love the child in front of you. Encourage his strengths, celebrate his quirks, and improve his weaknesses, the way you would with any child. You may have to work harder on some of this, but that’s the goal.
The truth is, our democracy is stronger when more people participate and when everyone’s views are heard. More participation not only leads to a more representative government, but also more thoughtful policies that better leverage the strengths – and better address the challenges – of the American mosaic.
Sometimes you have to resist working on your strengths in favour of your weaknesses. The decathlon requires a wide range of skills.
I think this is one of the greatest strengths of this school. Not only do the students go on to achieve great milestones in their own lives, they never forget their roots and the school that gave them the chance they needed to improve their lives and their families’ lives.
One thing about television, it brings out personality. People are able to watch me in action. They hear my voice and see my eyes. There’s nothing I can hide. That’s me. Television brings out your flaws, your weaknesses, your strengths, and you truths. The audience either likes you or it doesn’t.
When I work with other people, I try to make up for their shortcomings with my strengths, and I let others make up for my flaws with their strengths. I try to co-operate with people around me when working in a group. I like to enhance team spirit on set. I try to get everyone involved in the action.
The problems that you see startups tackling are dramatically different in different cities. Silicon Valley is unlikely to produce the same set of companies as New York or Cleveland because the region has a different set of strengths and defining institutions.
Human players have their strengths and weaknesses and Watson is the same way. He just has different strengths and weaknesses than most people.
My favourite position is in the midfield. I think I can play to my strengths there. I can communicate with every player. I’m more in the game, because as a right-back you have to stay on one side and you’re not always in the game for 90 minutes. So I prefer the centre midfield position.
One of the strengths of Adani is that, because we are controlling mines, ships, ports and logistics, we are the cheapest solution provider for end users.
It’s more important to know your weaknesses than your strengths.
You go into battle with your strengths.
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
I believe in my strengths – in my power, my speed and technique.
I’ve always thought my strengths were I’m smart, and I have a good sense of humor. I definitely struggle with feeling confident.
Where I know my strengths lie, for me, is establishing systems and protocols, finding solutions, and trying to push for results. The Senate is a great institution, but for me, it’s not the role that best suits those needs.
Our band has always been really big on imagery. We’ve kind of used that as one of our strengths; we tend to do that pretty well.
I think one of my strengths is kind of knowing people and getting a good read and a feel for what that person’s strengths might be.
I didn’t learn how to swing a golf club until late in my career. And even though I won all those tournaments, I still struggled with consistency, and I relied on my strengths, which were hitting the ball long and high, and I could chip and putt with the best of ’em.
I know from experience that it is crucial that I use my strengths.
Delegate to others who have strengths where you don’t. But sometimes, you just need to be the one to drive the change when everyone else is waiting for someone else to take the first step. To me, that’s courage in action.
You know, the whole philosophy of ad hoc combinations has its strengths and its weaknesses.
I thought acknowledging praise meant you were arrogant, but I’ve learned that knowing your strengths enables you to make use of them.
I had to take a hard look at myself and my strengths and weaknesses as a singer, songwriter and musician.
In domestic cricket – whether it is Ranji Trophy or other first class matches – in the first year, not many opponents will know about your game, but by the time you are into the third or fourth year, the opponents would have found out your strengths and weaknesses, and they will work on it.
I surround myself with people that have certain strengths that are my weaknesses so they push me in certain areas.
One of my strengths as a writer is that I’m a good problem-solver. I write these unthinking, ungoverned first drafts. The project for me always is to turn that instinctive stuff into pages that work.
Everybody knows what Peter Crouch’s strengths are and when he plays he is a handful for any side.
Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses.
I work hard. That’s probably one of my only strengths.
Always play to your strengths, whether your strengths are gender-based or just natural aptitude.
Police boxes, tweed blazers and bow ties feel quite English, but I think that is one of his virtues, one of the strengths of ‘Doctor Who.’
I think any time you have a super team, whether it’s all men or all women or both, what you have are people with very unique strengths that aren’t always totally compatible.
Now that I look back, all the things that I was teased about, became game changers and my strengths. That’s what we have to learn as mothers. We push our children so much to be perfect, but it’s their imperfections that make them unique.
Good captains know the strengths and weaknesses of their teams and make decisions accordingly.
Bobsled is best for athletes who are fast and strong, which were my strengths in softball.
How any person decides to emphasize strengths and mitigate weaknesses is something people have to figure out for themselves. I’m wary of the self-help literature that suggests there are certain rules. I’m very happy for people to look at my story and say it’s possible to achieve many things.
Shonda Rhimes, especially, saw something in me that no one had and then wrote to my strengths for ‘Grey’s Anatomy.’ That’s the job I think really opened up a whole new world for me.
With each character in a movie, I’m looking for a human being. I’m looking for a person. And to me, I’m looking for a person that’s full of strengths and weaknesses, a person that’s full of successes and failures, a person that’s full of joy and sorrow. I’m interested in people that are human beings that are alive.
I attended a high school with more than 4,000 students and met with a guidance counselor only once during my four-year stint. Despite my clear strengths in science and math, my counselor’s advice was to pursue a degree in business. A career in engineering was never encouraged nor, in fact, ever mentioned.
