Nicolas Winding Refn Quotes

Some weak people are so sensible of their weakness as to be able to make a good use of it.

Our strength grows out of our weakness.

We have basic urges all the time. They just manifest themselves in different scenarios, and we have to turn those weaknesses into our strengths. Art is very much about making your weaknesses your strength.

All the things that are negative in me as a person - the incompetence and despair and weakness and pain - are like a gift from God in a performer. If you don't hide them and if you stop lying to yourself about what you are and are not, there is a ring or a tent or a stage where you can take them and use them to make something beautiful.

I have a theory and I really believe it. I think your worst weakness can become your greatest single strength.

So I turned these sort of deficiencies into a, a workable thing if you understand what I mean.

If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

I've learned that I'm most powerful when I'm doing my art.

My parents taught me to believe that through the creative act, we're able to transcend and give a response to desecration.

Art is born of humiliation.

There are no makeovers in my books. The ugly duckling does not become a beautiful swan. She becomes a confident duck able to take charge of her own life and problems.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

Try to look at your weakness and convert it into your strength. That's success.

I have been drawn to stories that are attempting to turn suffering into beauty.

I allow myself to fail. I allow myself to break. I'm not afraid of my flaws.

We live in a world where to admit anything negative about yourself is seen as a weakness, when it's actually a strength. It's not a weak move to say, 'I need help.' In the long run, it's way better, because you have to fix it.

The world around me has changed, and I have learned to adapt but not change. But I'm changing into the woman I am meant to be.

I'm no role model, but I thought if I showed my frailties, which I had turned around into achievement, I could help many others.

When you've displayed a weakness, you've displayed something a person can grab a hold of and attack you there. If you're not ashamed of it, who can make you feel bad about it? Nobody. If you make a mistake, at least you get to see them, identify them, acknowledge them and hopefully remedy them.

I've always been a very artsy person, and I always preach self-confidence and knowing your worth.

If you're not vulnerable, and you're too headstrong and clear about the path you want to take, it won't help you grow. Vulnerability doesn't have to be a negative thing. If you take the right spin on it, it can be extremely positive.

Everything I was told should be my greatest insecurities and weaknesses, everything that I've been labeled - short, nerdy, skinny, weak, impulsive, ugly, tomboy, poor, rebel, loud, freak, crazy - turned out to be my greatest strengths. I didn't become successful in spite of them. I became successful because of them.

I do feel like I have set out a path of my life to never again be too small or too weak to protect the people I love.

When I was younger, I used to think that my unconventional upbringing was a weakness, but over the past few years, I've learnt to see it as one of my greatest strengths.