Russell Simmons Quotes

It's more important to know your weaknesses than your strengths.

I feel like we're attracted to paths in life that force us to look at our weaknesses or deficiencies as human beings. Not to get all deep on you, but that's how I feel.

Whoever can weep over himself for one hour is greater than the one who is able to teach the whole world; whoever recognizes the depth of his own frailty is greater than the one who sees visions of angels.

We all have strengths, weaknesses and blind spots. In fact, an average person has 3.4 blind spots.

Every time I've built character, I've regretted it.

A 'weakness,' I now realize, is nothing but a strength not properly developed.

I've never found therapy to be a sign of weakness; I've found the opposite to be true. The willingness to have a mirror held up to you definitely requires strength.

I can tell more about my weaknesses than my strengths.

Each character represented a trait that resides in me.

I believe that the biggest problem that humanity faces is an ego sensitivity to finding out whether one is right or wrong and identifying what one's strengths and weaknesses are.

Adversity has a way of introducing a man to himself.

Whoever comes to me finds me a mirror to whatever is in his heart. Thus, I try to help him to see qualities in himself that he needs to overcome.

I had to examine myself very thoroughly to find the right path personally.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

I've grown so much, not just as an actor, but as a human being.

I've been in therapy. I know enough about myself now to know that I really don't need to know anymore.

Know yourself to improve yourself.

I tell the truth, and I expose myself as a weak, misguided, misdirected, dysfunctional human being I used to be.

I think that there is a tragic misfit at the core of me, and I've just done a lot of work on myself. I love a good self-help book; I've read a ton of them. I love self-help seminars and therapy and all that.

Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew.

A degree of self-awareness is extremely valuable... I hope I have that going forward.

Life has brought me work to do on myself these past two years.

Although men are accused of not knowing their weakness, yet perhaps as few know their strength.

If we are not regularly deeply embarrassed by who we are, the journey to self-knowledge hasn’t begun.

I learned so much, and I feel I have grown as an actor and as a person.