“This is Romney's biggest political weakness. His policy flip-flops and the general sense that he's not comfortable in his own skin leads voters, including many supporters, wondering about his core values.” PoliticalValuesWonderPolicyComfortableWeaknessSkinsIncludingCoreVotersSupporterRomneyFlipCore ValuesFlip Flops Author:Ron Fournier
“We often value the exterior and superficial aspect of things more than their inner reality. Bad manners taint everything even justice and reason. The 'how' of things matters most, and even the most disagreeable matters can be sweetened and gilded over with the proper appearance. Such is the bias and the weakness of the human mind.” MindHumansMatterReasonRealityValuesJusticeWeaknessAspectAppearanceMannersHuman MindBiasSuperficialDisagreeableExteriorGildedBad Manners Author:Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable
“A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.” ArtLyingValuesArt IsWeaknessCloudsGrassWorks Of ArtBrotherhoodStaticEvanescence Book:Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel Source: Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel
“If you create and market a product or service through a business that is in alignment with your personality, capitalizes on your history, incorporates your experiences, harnesses your talents, optimizes your strengths, complements your weaknesses, honors your life's purpose, and moves you towards the conquest of your own fears, there is ABSOLUTELY NO WAY that anyone in this or any other universe can offer the same value that you do!” IfsWayMovingPurposeValuesUniverseTalentProductsPersonalityHonorOffersWeaknessConquestAlignmentHarnessComplement Author:Walt F. J. Goodridge
“The essential characteristic of the first half of the twentieth century is the growing weakness, and almost the disappearance, of the idea of value.” FirstsIdeasValuesHalfGrowingCenturyEssentialsWeaknessCharacteristicsTwentieth CenturyDisappearance Book:The Simone Weil Reader Source: The Simone Weil Reader
“When I say that I can write nothing but weird fiction, I am not trying to exalt that medium but am merely confessing my own weakness. The reason I can't write other kinds is not that I don't value & respect them, but merely that my slender set of endowments does not enable me to extract a compellingly acute personal sense of interest & drama from the natural phenomena of life.” WritingTryingKindDoeI CanReasonValuesInterestNaturalMy OwnFictionDramaWeaknessMediumsEndowmentSlenderConfessingNatural Phenomena Author:H. P. Lovecraft
“Patriarchy values the hard over the soft; the tough over the tender; punishment, vengeance, and vindictiveness over compassion, negotiation, and reconciliation. The 'hard' qualities are linked to power, success, and masculinity - and exalted. The 'soft' qualities are identified with weakness, powerlessness, and femininity - and denigrated.” HardValuesQualityCompassionWeaknessToughPunishmentPatriarchyLinkedMasculinityNegotiationFemininityVengeanceReconciliationExaltedPowerlessnessVindictiveness Author:Starhawk
“A weakness of the random-walk model lies in its assumption of instantaneous adjustment, whereas the information impelling a stock market toward its "intrinsic value" gradually becomes disseminated throughout the market place.” LyingValuesWalksInformationModelsWeaknessAssumptionAdjustmentInstantaneousIntrinsic Value Author:Richard Arnold Epstein
“Well, I don't like the UK. I haven't ever been a fan of the pound (sterling), and even though they are taking some steps in the right direction - more so than the US - in addressing some of their problems, I still think they're doing it much too slowly. So, I think that the pound will continue to lose value relative to some of these other currencies. I ultimately expect the pound to rise against the dollar, but that's not the best way to take advantage of dollar weakness.” ThinkingWayWellsStillsProblemValuesLosesStepsFansHavensWeaknessAdvantageDollarsBest WayPoundsRelativeCurrencyRight DirectionSterlingSteps In The Right DirectionRise Against Author:Peter Schiff
“If you look at great human civilizations, from the Roman Empire to the Soviet Union, you will see that most do not fail simply due to external threats but because of internal weakness, corruption or a failure to manifest the values and ideals they espouse.” IfsHumansLooksValuesFailingCivilizationWeaknessIdealsUnionsThreatCorruptionDuesInternalsEmpiresManifestSovietSoviet UnionRoman EmpireHuman Civilization Author:Cory Booker
“It is a law of life that human beings, even the geniuses among them, do not pride themselves on their actual achievements but thatthey want to impress others, want to be admired and respected because of things of much lower import and value.” WantHumansLawValuesHuman BeingsHuman NaturePrideGeniusAchievementWeaknessImpressImportsLaws Of Life Author:Stefan Zweig