Quotes About Strengths

The bulk of my learning - if I may call it such - has come within the past three months, after I became a part of the fragile body of patients who make up an AIDS hospice. Here, surrounded by teams of supportive nurses, attentive doctors, and interns, one gently comes upon his own strengths and shortcomings.

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 am a woman of many talents and they're all just pieces of the puzzle that make me and make my career.

During practice, I train with both women and men. I think it's good to have a mixture of strengths because both have different fighting styles. Every person offers something different, and the more body types you get used to, the better fighter you will become.

One of the strengths of Michael Cohl is he's a big thinker, strategic, great with relationships, artists and big deals.

The European languages have their strengths, but for the purposes of cursing out loud you can't beat some of the Indian languages for range and originality.

The nettles stung me viciously on the hands and face, and I cursed in my best Hindustani. The European languages have their strengths, but for the purposes of cursing out loud you can't beat some of the Indian languages for range and originality.

You've got strengths you're not even aware of yet and you are going to be amazed at what you can do when this is all over. I believe in you; not just in your talent, but in you yourself. There is so much more to you than you even realize, I promise.

This is the same feeling that many managers unwittingly create in their employees. Even when working with their most productive employees, they still spend most of their time talking about each person's few areas of nontalent and how to eradicate them. No matter how well-intended, relationships preoccupied with weakness never end well.

Focus on each person's strengths and manage around his weaknesses. Don't try to fix the weaknesses. Don't try to perfect each person. Instead do everything you can to help each person cultivate his talents. Help each person become more of who he already is.

Define the outcomes you want from your team and its members, and then look for each person's strength signs to figure out how each person can reach those outcomes most efficiently, most amazingly, most creatively, and most joyfully. The moment you realize you're in the outcomes business is the moment you turn each person's uniqueness from a bug into a feature.

Sustained success comes only when you take what's unique about you and figure out how to make it useful.

A close scrutiny of excellence, however, reveals that our edge—our particular genius—is precise. We each have specific areas where we consistently stand out, where we can do things, see things, understand things, and learn things better and faster than ten thousand other people can.

Conventional wisdom tells us that we learn from our mistakes. The strengths movement says that all we learn from mistakes are the characteristics of mistakes.

As oblivious as we can be to our own strengths, it's even easier to ignore the particular and unique strengths of others.

People don't change that much. Don't waste time trying to put in what was left out. Try to draw out what was left in. That is hard enough.

What leaders have in common is that each really knows their strengths, has developed their strengths, and can call on the right strength at the right time.

Don't waste time trying to put in what was left out. Try to draw out what was left in.

People with weaknesses get killed by the people who lack them. Notice I'm not dead.

Find Your Strengths and Interests

When your weakness are your strengths, you cry.

When your weaknesses are your strenghts, you cry. For crying disconcerts people, they don't know how to handle it; they are expecting violence and suddenly it vanishes in a pool of tears.

When your weaknesses are your strengths, you cry. For crying disconcerts people, they don't know how to handle it; they are expecting violence and suddenly it vanishes in a pool of tears.

A good leader is someone who knows what he's bad at, and hires someone who's good at it to take care of it for him.