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Peter Drucker Management Consultant, Author
Weakness

"Management is about human beings. Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant."

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Peter Drucker Management Consultant, Author
Weakness

"We can't make people better by trying to eliminate their weaknesses, but we can help then perform better by building on their strengths."

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Weakness

"I think that maybe that's my weakness, in that I don't know how to do it, so I just do what I do and try to do it as passionately and as well as I can."

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Emma Bell Author
Weakness

"I feel like we're attracted to paths in life that force us to look at our weaknesses or deficiencies as human beings. Not to get all deep on you, but that's how I feel."

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Carl Sagan Astronomer, Astrophysicist
Weakness

"Those who seek power at any price detect a societal weakness, a fear that they can ride into office."

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David Hume Philosopher, Historian
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"A pleasant comedy, which paints the manners of the age, and exposes a faithful picture of nature, is a durable work, and is transmitted to the latest posterity. But a system, whether physical or metaphysical, commonly owes its success to its novelty; and is no sooner canvassed with impartiality than its weakness is discovered."

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Diana Vreeland Fashion Editor
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"This is a weakness of the world. Someone thinks they've discovered something for the first time. They want to be authoritative about it."

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Charles Dickens Novelist
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"‎And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire."

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Blaise Pascal Mathematician, Physicist, Philosopher
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"The weakness of human reason appears more evidently in those who know it not than in those who know it."

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Brigham Young Religious Leader
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"We are doing well, notwithstanding all our failings and weaknesses; but the Lord would like to have us a little more diligent; he would like us to cleave a little more closely to the things of his kingdom, have more of his Spirit, and know more of him and of one another, that complete and perfect confidence can be restored."

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