"From this point of view, to avoid your……" — Donald O. Clifton
"From this point of view, to avoid your strengths and to focus on your weaknesses isn't a sign of diligent humility. It is almost irresponsible. By contrast the most responsible, the most challenging, and, in the sense of being true to yourself, the most honorable thing to do is face up to the strength potential inherent in your talents and then find ways to realize it."
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10 Quotes by Donald O. Clifton
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Back in the 1930s, Carl Jung, the eminent thinker and psychologist, put it this way: Criticism has 'the power to…
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If your senses are numbed with delusion and denial, you will stop looking for these true strengths and wind up…
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There is one sure way to identify your greatest potential for strength: Step back and watch yourself for a while.…
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Our definition of a weakness is anything that gets in the way of excellent performance.
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Relationships help us to define who we are and what we can become. Most of us can trace our successes…
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What leaders have in common is that each really knows their strengths, has developed their strengths, and can call on…
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Your weaknesses will never develop, while your strengths will develop infinitely.
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Each of these strategies-get a little better at it, design a support system, use one of your strongest themes to…
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At an early age, you started hearing it: It's a virtue to be "well-rounded." ... They might as well have…
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More Avoid Quotes
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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
— Aristotle
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Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United…
— Margaret Atwood
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Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid…
— Margaret Atwood
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I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It's the curse of our age, and I want to avoid…
— Paul Auster
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Avoid problems, and you'll never be the one who overcame them.
— Richard Bach
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I'd love to remain a secret and still work, but I also want people to see the movies I'm in…
— Christian Bale
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Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.
— Joey Adams
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My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what…
— Martha Beck
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The argument of socialists, that people really want to share, beyond a reasonable level of charity, is rubbish, though it…
— Conrad Black
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Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.
— William Blake
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If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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