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"It's easier to direct. If you direct something poorly and re-shoot it the next day, stage it better, make it work better, you have a lot of possibilities. You can edit it in certain ways so that it works, but there's no getting around weaknesses of the script."
"In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy, which cunning will discover, and wickedness insensibly open, cultivate and improve."
"Strength is life, Weakness is death."
"Of course all life is a process of breaking down, but the blows that do the dramatic side of the work-- the big sudden blows that come, or seem to come, from outside-- the ones you remember and blame things on and, in moments of weakness, tell your friends about, don't show their effect all at once. There is another sort of blow that comes from within-that you don't feel until it's too late to do anything about it, until you realize with finality that in some regard you will never be as good a man again."
"Weakness is something we don't like to admit we have. We hold it against people, until we experience it, and then we feel more compassion for it."
"There is a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of largeness and of love; and strength is often only another name for willing bondage to irremediable weakness."
"Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others."
"It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power."
"Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowledge of human weakness, justly termed cunning, softness of temper, outward obedience and a scrupulous attention to a puerile kind of propriety, will obtain for them the protection of man."
"Stay close to those who are not afraid to be vulnerable, because they have confidence in themselves and know that, at some point in our lives, we all stumble; they do not interpret this as a sign of weakness, but of humanity. Avoid those who talk a great deal before acting, those who never take a step without being quite sure that it will bring them respect."
"Cicero said loud-bawling orators were driven by their weakness to noise, as lame men to take horse."
"The Beginning of Philosophy is a Consciousness of your own Weakness and inability in necessary things."
"Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture."
"From aquaintances we conceal our real selves. To our friends we reveal our weaknesses."
"No conclusions can be more agreeable to scepticism than such as make discoveries concerning the weakness and narrow limits of human reason and capacity."
"Most people believe vulnerability is weakness. But really vulnerability is Courage. We must ask ourselves...are we willing to show up and be seen."
"The weakest goes to the wall."
"I've never got into debt and I've always been in control of my taxes and VAT, but having four children costs a lot. They are my weakness."
"The helpless can't help the helpless."
"Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels."
