Life is very interesting… in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.
Captain America is an interesting character because it makes you ask those questions in yourself as a writer. What do we want as a nation, what do we mean as a nation, what is our role in the world as a nation? What are our strengths and weaknesses as a country?
One of the strengths of Michael Cohl is he’s a big thinker, strategic, great with relationships, artists and big deals.
If you can find collaborators whose strengths compliment your own, the result can be more than the sum of its authors.
Like the rest of the genetic lottery, beauty is unfair. Everyone falls short of perfection, but some are luckier than others. Real confidence requires self-knowledge, which includes recognizing one’s shortcomings as well as one’s strengths.
I know my strengths. I know what I’m good at.
I think my game is very suited for clay. It brings out my strengths more so than my other surfaces.
It’s a big, complicated democracy, and one of the strengths of our country is… its rich diversity.
All of us want something in life, all of us have flaws, and all of us have strengths. So, I always try to discover those things in a character and then try to expose it in one way or another.
The only thing I can say is that I like people; I like human beings with their faults and with their strengths.
It has long been noted that two of the Conservative Party’s great strengths have been the loyalty of its members and its pragmatic approach to policy challenges.
I feel like one of my strengths is writing about stories that are unique to me but somehow relate with everyone, and the one thing I’ve found is that if you make a song wholly unique to you, then you don’t have to compete with everybody, because nobody else can make a song like you.
The Puritans’ sense of priorities in life was one of their greatest strengths. Putting God first and valuing everything else in relation to God was a recurrent Puritan theme.
What I felt as a singer is that music and cultural contents are the biggest strengths that go beyond language and go to any country in the world.
The correct strategy in heads-up poker is based on identifying and acting upon your opponent’s strengths and weaknesses.
I can tell more about my weaknesses than my strengths.
By simply capitalizing on core strengths and knowledge, companies and entrepreneurs can engage in an emerging business model that will enable them to create – and demonstrate – real, sustainable social impact in society.
Simplicity is often one of the greatest strengths.
Expressing myself is one of my strengths.
In tournament cricket, with a new opponent each game, I think you actually need to play to your own strengths more.
At the combine and at my workouts, I tried to be the perfect player. I tried to promote my strengths and conceal my weaknesses, and on paper, I kind of succeeded: I was the first pick in the draft. And with that, I inherited this big shiny trophy that I carried around, and it had one word engraved on it – anxiety.
Test cricket is pretty much the same as first-class – know what your strengths are and stick to them.
Neither man nor woman is perfect or complete without the other. Thus, no marriage or family, no ward or stake is likely to reach its full potential until husbands and wives, mothers and fathers, men and women work together in unity of purpose, respecting and relying upon each other’s strengths.
I watched ‘Who’ with a mixture of affection and exasperation through the eighties, always ready to cheer on the Doctor but seldom feeling that the series was playing to its strengths. Some of the adventures, revisited on DVD, turn out to be better than I remembered – others just as infuriating.
I don’t think, in international cricket, there is a need for coaching. The real coaching is to recognise your players’ strengths and weaknesses. You always remain positive with your players.
The only way you’re going to get caps is by playing. I’ve played all the way through the age groups, and that was my experience. Now I’m on the main stage, and I’ve got to play to my strengths.
The chief of staff has to reflect and sometimes complement the strengths of the president he serves.
We all had our strengths. I focused on mine, which was kind of the business side of things and more about the touring and the creative… Nick was all about the music, and Joe was about the entertainment aspect and the music.
I’m constantly watching people. Watching their strengths and weaknesses. I find myself going into theater less and less, let alone horror. I gave that up when I was seven or eight years old.
One thing I’ve had to realize in my career is that I can’t do it all. Sometimes we put a lot of pressure on ourselves to make sure we’re writing the next hit. There are other people out there, and that’s what they do every day, and they have strengths that I don’t have.
I always tell people the hardest thing is competing against the guys you see every day because any of my strengths that I like to go to, they see that every day.
Out of economic hardship can come change – we are suddenly cast onto our wits and our talents and our resources and our strengths, as we lose all the choices we once had.
I just need to play to my strengths.
We should seek a system that provides outlets for those skills and talents so that everyone can find a way to work and serve in a manner that best suits the strengths of each individual.
I’m not trying to act like I’m Superman or better than anybody else in the game. I’m just telling my story, showing my strengths and weaknesses – as a human, as a person, as a man.
I find that comforting and an equally purposeful way to think, that there’s lots of ways to flex both your strengths and your weaknesses.
My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something. I’d probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they’re the same thing.
Everyone has strengths and weaknesses, you just have to know how to match up against a player.
I was never the most technical; I was never the best at one aspect at this sport, but what I was always good as was negating people’s strengths and putting them in terrible situations where they’re uncomfortable.
Issues like security threats, declining traffic, high insurance premiums, rising fuel costs, among others, call for individual strengths to be aligned towards regional stability.
We’re always quick to pigeon-hole players and say ‘he’s a targetman’ or a ‘spin-in behind man.’ But I think I can bring different aspects of the game and heading is one of my strengths.
If you don’t have to have a partner, don’t take one. If you do need one, look for a partner who can complement your weaknesses with their strengths. If you are at odds, you are never going to get anything done.
Every single player needs that eye-to-eye connection, I’m sure. They want to know what is expected of them, but it’s not just me telling them what to do. It’s about asking, ‘What are your strengths? What do you feel? What can you give to the team?’
The biggest challenge is to not be affected by praise because a lot of it is not from the heart. Being true to yourself about your strengths and weaknesses, when everyone out there has a strong opinion and wants to give advice, is another challenge.
I consider myself a good person. And I think people perceive me to be, ‘Oh, she’s nice,’ but being a good person, knowing your strengths and working towards those strengths, and encouraging those around you to do the same, that’s a good person.
I think we should all be tolerant of each other and embrace each others’ strengths and differences and uniqueness and beauty.
What I’ve learned is that unless it’s an emergency, like a fire or brain surgery, hierarchy is not necessary and may be damaging. If you have a hierarchy, you’re repeating the strengths and weaknesses of one person without allowing for the accumulative strength of a group.
Our forefathers paved the way for us. Let’s take their values and their strengths and rededicate ourselves to doing whatever it takes to keep America the greatest country in the history of man.
‘Confederate,’ in all of our minds, will be an alternative-history show. It’s a science-fiction show. One of the strengths of science fiction is that it can show us how this history is still with us in a way no strictly realistic drama ever could, whether it were a historical drama or a contemporary drama.
We are resilient beings and need to realize our incredible strengths.
If you’re well-prepared, you know what you’re doing, and you have an idea what the opponents can do – what their strengths and weaknesses are – once you get into the game, those adjustments will be – I won’t say easy, but relatively easier and more manageable.
To me idealized characters are so boring to play, especially having grown up in the classical theater. That’s a great experience, but as a woman, especially, you’ve played a lot of idealized characters. So when you’ve got someone who has weaknesses as well as strengths, that’s interesting.
Speaking selfishly, having to counter-attack is not one of my strengths.
I know my strengths. Painfully aware of the weaknesses. There’s many. I love sports. So working towards a common goal, that’s exciting to me.
