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  • People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.

    Distance   Eye   People  
    George Eliot (2012). “The Mill on the Floss”, p.166, Courier Corporation
  • People tend to put entertainers on pedestals. We're human beings, just like you. You may see us smiling, and whether we have money or not, we still have bills to pay, we still have our stresses. I think a lot of people want to focus on others' shortcomings to make themselves feel better. And it's a very sad thing.

    "Janet Jackson on body image, self-acceptance" by Alison Prato, www.cnn.com. November 29, 2010.
  • Gold has two significant shortcomings, being neither of much use nor procreative.

    Money   Two   Gold  
    "How Does The Cult Of Buffett Compare To The Cult Of Gold?". www.businessinsider.com. April 10, 2012.
  • Love is not 'blind' but visionary: It sees into the very heart of its object And sees the 'real self' behind and in the midst Of the frailties and shortcomings of the person.

    Love   Real   Heart  
  • I'm not trying to be diplomatic. I'm trying to be more nuanced and realistic. I think there has to be a serious examination of the shortcomings of the Euro structure. Euro central institutions, whether it be fiscal policy, monetary policy, financial regulation, are simply not as robust as they are in a currency that has a national government behind it.

    Interview with Peter Mansbridge, www.theglobeandmail.com. June 5, 2012.
  • dogs love us unconditionally and cats are big on redemption. Our sins and shortcomings don't bother them as long as we delight in their presence.

    Dog   Cat   Long  
  • One who changes a body from the error of the way not only brings peace and harmony but saves a soul and covers a multitude of shortcomings.

    Spiritual   Errors   Soul  
  • I discovered very quickly that criticism is a form of optimism, and that when you are silent about the shortcomings of your society, you're very pessimistic about that society. And it's only when you speak truthfully about it that you show your faith in that society.

    "A Conversation With Author Carlos Fuentes". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. 1987.
  • I can forgive a man’s past faults, his present shortcomings, and his future failures if every minute of every day he loves me like it’s his religion.

    Past   Men   Forgiving  
    Nicole Williams (2012). “Clash”, p.148, Simon and Schuster
  • I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.

  • Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.

    FaceBook post by Anne Frank from Nov 28, 2012
  • If America is to compete effectively in world markets, its corporate leaders must strategically position their companies in the right businesses, and then manage their workforces in the right ways. However, the nation has a shortage of business leaders who understand the importance of utilizing human capital to gain competitive advantage, let alone the know-how to do so. In the future, that shortcoming promises to be exacerbated because few business schools today teach aspiring executives how to create the kind of high-involvement organizations.

    School   Leader   Promise  
    Source: bobmorris.biz
  • The greatest sin is carelessness.

    "Playboy Interview: Linda Ronstadt". Interview with Jean Vallely, www.ronstadt-linda.com. April, 1980.
  • Analyze thy life's experiences, see thy shortcomings, see thy virtues. Minimize those faults, magnify and glorify thy virtues.

    Faults   Virtue   Glorify  
  • A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference. It pardons shortcomings, it consoles failure.

    Humor   Judging   Action  
    "The Eighth Day". Book by Thornton Wilder, 1967.
  • but very little achievement is required in order to pity another man's shortcomings.

    Men   Order   Littles  
    George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch”, p.228, Booklassic
  • Man's shortcomings and sins are all due to the substance of the body and not to its form; while all his merits are exclusively due to his form.

    Men   Substance   Body  
    Moses Maimonides (2016). “Guide for the perplexed”, p.1009, Moses Maimonides
  • A lot of the things I find funniest about people are their shortcomings that they're oblivious to, but that they're constantly reminding everyone around them of.

    Source: www.timeout.com
  • I knew that part of friendship consisted in accepting a friend’s shortcomings, which sometimes included his parents.

    John Knowles (2014). “A Separate Peace”, p.169, Simon and Schuster
  • Isn't this the truth of any good mother? That in all of our lives. We worry only about those we brought into this world, regardless of whether they loved us back or treated us fairly or understood our shortcomings.

    Mom   Mother   Worry  
    Adriana Trigiani (2001). “Big Cherry Holler: A Big Stone Gap Novel”, p.278, Random House
  • I really do believe that in order to overcome our environmental shortcomings, we have to act united as a people, and that means that every individual has to participate and do their part. Certainly, we need government and legislation, but the governments really listen to people, so we all have to bring to the table our own effort or our own passion in whatever way that manifests itself.

    Believe   Mean   Passion  
    "Adrian Grenier: Producer and Entourage Actor Talks About the Lonely Whale". Interview with Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
  • Freedom is the right to question and change the established way of doing things. It is the continuing revolution of the marketplace. It is the understanding that allows us to recognize shortcomings and seek solutions. It is the right to put forth an idea, scoffed at by the experts, and watch it catch fire among the people. It is the right to follow your dream, or stick to your conscience even if you're the only one in a sea of doubters.

    Dream   Freedom   Ideas  
    Moscow State University Address, delivered 31 May 1988, Moscow, Russia
  • It is important for us to see that our mentors are human and therefore fallible; it makes our own shortcomings more tenable.

  • A major shortcoming of the Resistance is the outnumbering, before long, of the genuine warriors by camera-carrying midgets intent on leaving a record of their purported heroism.

    Warrior   Long   Leaving  
    Source: www.chanel-muggeridge.com
  • One of the greatest and also the commonest of faults is for men to believe that, because they never hear their shortcomings spoken of, or read about them in cold print, others can have no knowledge of them. GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG, The Reflections of Lichtenberg We are often more agreeable through our faults than our good qualities.

  • I always feel it is a shortcoming of mine as a reader and as a writer that I frankly need to like somebody.

    Needs   Reader   Feels  
    Source: www.guernicamag.com
  • Isn’t it fascinating to think that probably the only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping off and showing his shortcomings?

    Men   Thinking   Laughing  
    "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
  • We must receive the one who curses us as a messenger from God, rebuking our hidden evil thoughts, so that we, seeing our thoughts with exactness, might correct ourselves. For we do not know how many hidden evils we have; Only a perfect man can understand all of his own shortcomings.

  • I believe that the mutual fund industry's biggest shortcoming is too much focus on the momentary price of a stock - an illusion - and too little focus on the intrinsic value of the corporation - the ultimate reality. I'm comforted by the fact that Warren Buffett feels the same way.

    Believe   Reality   Focus  
    Source: www.washingtonpost.com
  • I think there are many faces to everyone. I also have my bad sides. Also I think everyone is trying to improve their shortcomings to become more wholesome.

    Thinking   Trying   Faces  
    "Zhou Xun: China's queen of quirk". www.cnn.com. January 29, 2010.
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