Top 17 Donald Clifton Quotes
#1. Your weaknesses will never develop, while your strengths will develop infinitely.
Donald O. Clifton
#2. At an early age, you started hearing it: It's a virtue to be "well-rounded." ... They might as well have said : Become as dull as you possibly can be.
Donald O. Clifton
#3. Back in the 1930s, Carl Jung, the eminent thinker and psychologist, put it this way: Criticism has 'the power to do good when there is something that must be destroyed, dissolved or reduced, but [it is] capable only of harm when there is something to be built.
Donald O. Clifton
#4. Nothing that ever happens in life can take away the fact that I am me. So I have to go on being me.
Monica Dickens
#6. Relationships help us to define who we are and what we can become. Most of us can trace our successes to pivotal relationships.
Donald O. Clifton
#7. If your senses are numbed with delusion and denial, you will stop looking for these true strengths and wind up living a second-rate version of someone's life rather than a worldclass version of your own
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#8. You [as an actor] have a responsibility to Jonathan's book and you have a responsibility to talk about a subject that is going to be, whether it's contentious or not, it's going t bring up a huge, emotional response from people. A lot of people will say they are ready or they're not ready.
Stephen Daldry
#9. Lo! I am Beauty's constant thrall, Must ever on her voice await, And follow through the maze of Fate Her luring, strange and mystical.
Clark Ashton Smith
#10. Our lives are shaped by our interactions with others. Whether we have a long conversation with a friend or simply place an order at a restaurant, every interaction makes a difference.
Donald O. Clifton
#11. If there is any difference between you and me, it may simply be that I get up every day and have a chance to do what I love to do, every day.
Donald O. Clifton
#12. Stop looking out, start looking in. Be your own best friend. Stand up and say, hey, this is mine!
Sammy Hagar
#13. I believe in individual rights so much that I don't like any sort of 'what's good for the cause'-type questions.
Penn Jillette
#14. Each of these strategies-get a little better at it, design a support system, use one of your strongest themes to overwhelm your weakness, find a partner, and just stop doing it-can help you as you strive to build your life around your strengths.
Donald O. Clifton
#15. Our definition of a weakness is anything that gets in the way of excellent performance.
Donald O. Clifton
#16. While China succeeded in transferring nearly 150 million people from agriculture to manufacturing, we could not do so, due to lack of skilled manpower.
Pallam Raju