Hudson Leick Quotes

I've never found therapy to be a sign of weakness; I've found the opposite to be true. The willingness to have a mirror held up to you definitely requires strength.

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.

Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.

I'm a big believer in the notion that our greatest potential lies in our darkest parts. To a certain extent it's only in facing those parts of ourselves that we can truly grow, and I think that's true of all of the characters I've played, certainly in the past few years.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.

You get talent when you discover the ground of your pain.

It's my deepest interest as an actor: I love discovering how human beings work, how their flaws reveal themselves - how to learn and grow from that - and how characters teach me things as a woman and as a parent.

At the end of your twenties, you realize you are inherently flawed, and that's great, and that's what makes you dynamic.

What else is there for me to conquer? Hopefully my ego.

Meg, I give you your faults." "My faults!" Meg cried. "Your faults." "But I'm always trying to get rid of my faults!" "Yes," Mrs. Whatsit said. "However, I think you'll find they'll come in very handy on Camazotz.

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

Humility leads to strength and not to weakness. It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mistakes and to make amends for them.

My strengths make me contemptuous. My weaknesses make me charitable.

That is why success and fruitfulness depend as much upon focusing on the "who" you are as much as the "what" of the work you do. Invest in your character, and it will give you the returns that you are looking for by only investing in the work itself. You can't do the latter without the former.

It's a real luxury to be able to develop with your character.

You cannot let go of anything if you cannot notice that you are holding it. Admit your 'weaknesses' and watch them morph into your greatest strengths.

I understood, by dint of digging into my memories, that modesty helped me to shine, humility helped me to triumph and virtue to oppress.

Maybe at the same time as I'm more confident today, I'm also more humble.

A 'weakness,' I now realize, is nothing but a strength not properly developed.

They say that people teach what they need to learn. By adopting the role of happiness teacher, if only for myself, I was trying to find the method to conquer my particular faults and limitations.

A character, their ability or inability to laugh at themselves should always be a very, very conscious choice. It's a very big key to the nature of a human being.

Love and hate have a magical transforming power. They are the great soul changers. We grow through their exercise into the likeness of what we contemplate.

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.