Weakness Is Provocative Quotes

#1. If we know anything, it is that weakness is provocative.

Donald Rumsfeld

#2. You can be who you will," he repeated. His voice softened. "And if you will have me, I will be the one beside you.

Shannon Hale

#3. I always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There's always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.

LeBron James

#4. Always keep an open mind, because an open mind is an open door, and an open door is the gateway to everything.

Trevor Forest

#5. A giant that became the giant through unethical ways is undoubtedly the smallest dwarf ever!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#6. To me, 'Educating Rita' is the most perfect performance I could give of a character who was as far away from me as you could possibly get and of all the films I have ever been in, I think it may be the one I am most proud of.

Michael Caine

#7. In science there is a dictum: don't add an experiment to an experiment. Don't make things unnecessarily complicated. In writing fiction, the more fantastic the tale, the plainer the prose should be. Don't ask your readers to admire your words when you want them to believe your story.

Ben Bova

#8. I observe to the letter all laws that make sense but combat those that are obsolete or absurd.

Wilhelm Reich

#9. A man who's discontents were barely known to himself, awakening in middle age to the horror of self-reflection.

Philip Roth

#10. Several of my critics have said, 'Bowerman just tacks up a piece of paper in the locker room and turns his runners loose.' They're partially right. I do give the athletes a relatively free rein and for good reason. One of my principles is? 'Don't overcoach.'

Bill Bowerman

#11. One of the enduring lessons of history is that whenever an empire becomes insular to 'protect' itself, intellectual decline and cultural intolerance are sure to follow.

Irshad Manji

#12. Weakness actually is a provocative to evil. You don't beat evil with weakness. You don't beat evil with concessions. You don't beat radical Islam by giving them more territory, giving them more money. You beat evil by strength.

Bobby Jindal