A Quote by Robert Cormier

I don't think I began to be a professional writer until I learned my weaknesses and what I couldn't do. This forced me to compensate.

Robert Cormier

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Robert Cormier
American - Author
January 17, 1925 - November 2, 2000

It's not that we ignore our weaknesses; rather, we make our weaknesses irrelevant by working effectively with others so that we compensate for our weaknesses through their strengths and they compensate for their weaknesses through our strengths.

Stephen Covey

I think once I began to trust myself as a writer, I began to be seen as a writer.

Natasha Rothwell

You always have certain strengths and certain weaknesses, and you want to compensate for your weaknesses... I have a real duty to earn the trust of the faculty. I don't just deserve it. I have to earn it.

Erskine Bowles

I can compensate for all my weaknesses with my fashion.

Rihanna

I learned the most about myself, and you ask what I learned? Well, I learned my strengths and my weaknesses, and it's far more important to learn about your weaknesses than your strengths.

John Lithgow

I think what happened is I learned my strengths, but more importantly, I learned to embrace my weaknesses.

Alyssa Edwards

I wanted to be a writer all my life. Since I was 10. And then at a certain point I began to assume I was one, which is rich, I know. I didn't meet a writer until I was nearly an adult, so I had no idea what I'd bet the farm on.

Tim Winton

Past experience told me he could smell my fear; it also told me that the anger accompanying it would pretty much cover the scent. It's good to know how to compensate for your own weaknesses.?

Mira Grant

I learned what my weaknesses were and I went out the next day to turn those weaknesses intro strengths.

Larry Bird

The essence of synergy is to value differences-to respect them, to build on strengths, to compensate for weaknesses

Stephen Covey

As a writer, I had learned a lot on 'Margin Call' about embracing the weaknesses of a narrative and of a project. A story always has an inherent narrative weakness.

J. C. Chandor

I think I would have been a writer, anyhow, in the sense of having written a story every now and then, or continued writing poetry. But it was the war experience and the two novels I wrote about Vietnam that really got me started as a professional writer.

Joe Haldeman

One of the advantages of having gone to Penn State was having had a scholar for a mentor - Philip Young. Also, a professional writer named Philip Klass taught there. He was a science fiction writer whose pseudonym was William Tenn. As a professional writer, he brought wisdom to teaching because he'd done it for a living.