Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes

The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.

We all have our strengths and our failings.

I think the way I look at things gives me a different perspective. I'm most valuable when I work with a team of bright people who complement my weaknesses with their strengths.

I have strengths, and I have weaknesses. I don't pretend to be able to write a great thesis or doctorate - I have no pretensions in that direction.

All of us want something in life, all of us have flaws, and all of us have strengths. So, I always try to discover those things in a character and then try to expose it in one way or another.

I'm not exactly an Einstein, so I compensate by being more focused.

I know the kind of street I'm going down. I know my own strengths and weaknesses.

Don't try to kid yourself that your game is about pace if it isn't. If you're a big guy like me you need to look at how similarly built players use that physical presence to influence a game. Accept that your build may have some limitations - but plenty of plus points too.

Every team has its weakness, and every team has its strength.

I'm really spectacularly thick in all areas of my life except comedy and science. I'm crap at everything else.

Teams want fast players. That's not me. But I know my strengths.

I have learned very quickly where my strengths are, and color coordination of particular things is not a strong suit.

The line between winning and losing is very thin, and wins give you prestige, stability, and continuity.

The one thing I know is, if I play good ball, things have tended to come along with it. Everything that I've ever done in my career has come off of playing good football. And so I realize I need to go out there, and I need to take care of my business; then everything else - all these cool, great things - come along with it.

Everybody has to think for himself. A right way for a big man may not be a right way for a small man. A right way for someone who is slow may not be a right way for someone who is quick. Each person must understand his weaknesses and his strengths.

Men have various subjects in which they may excel, or at least would be thought to excel, and though they love to hear justice done to them where they know they excel, yet they are most and best flattered upon those points where they wish to excel and yet are doubtful whether they do or not.

A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents. A transcendent talent draws so largely on his forces as tolame him; a defect pays him revenues on the other side.

We all have strengths, weaknesses and blind spots. In fact, an average person has 3.4 blind spots.

Humility is not denying your strengths, humility is being honest about your weaknesses.

In order for us to liberate the energy of our strength, our weakness must first have a chance to reveal itself.

It's so easy to think that your strengths don't matter.

It's not what the vision is, it's what the vision does.

Work on your strong points because they are what made you.

We knew our strengths and played up our assets. But we couldn't see what made us unique enough for someone to really love us.

In order to succeed in a profession, a person not only needs to have its good, but also its bad qualities. The former are the spirit, the latter is the body of the job.