"A person's strength is to know their weaknesses."

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Source : Twitter post from Jul 19, 2016

Russell Simmons

#Weakness Quotes #Persons Quotes

“Facing my addiction was one of the hardest things I've had to do in my life.”
“When I see people making 'abstract' painting, I think it's just a dialogue and a dialogue isn't enough. That is to say, there is you painting and this canvas. I think there has to be a third thing; it has to be a trialogue.”
“In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history and possibly the unhappiest.”

Source : Eda J. LeShan (1967). “The Conspiracy Against Childhood”, New York : Atheneum
“...that once were urgent and necessary for an orderly world and now were buried away, gathering dust and of no use to anyone.”
“I think of myself as a journeyman actress. I will attempt almost anything that I think that I can bring off. It could be almost anything.”
“With the Stray Cats at least, we really took the music somewhere else. First, we wrote our own songs. That's a real weak point in modern classics if you do rockabilly or blues.”
“For each one of us stands alone in the midst of a universe.”
“We all want to be special, to stand out; there's nothing wrong with this. The irony is that every human being is special to start with, because we're unique to start with. But we then go through some sort of boot camp from the age of zero to about 18 where we learn everything we can about how not to be unique.”

Source : Karl Marlantes (2011). “What It Is Like To Go To War”, p.114, Atlantic Books Ltd

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