Compensating Weakness Quotes

I knew I was a good singer - I've been singing my whole life, so I was comfortable enough with that - I felt like I could compensate with not being great on guitar.

Cicero said loud-bawling orators were driven by their weakness to noise, as lame men to take horse.

Orators are most vehement when they have the weakest cause, as men get on horseback when they cannot walk.

We must make this campaign an exceedingly active one. Only thus can a weaker country cope with a stronger; it must make up in activity what it lacks in strength.

I knew that I wasn't the smartest kid in school, but I knew that I had a way to get out if I did the right things in sports.

My vocal ability is very limited, but I'm fortunate in that I can write the songs around my vocal limitations.

I think I became funny because I grew up in the Bronx. I was small and weak and Jewish instead of large and fierce and Puerto Rican. You need something.

I was downright obnoxious. In second grade, we had some program where we kept a public list of all the books we read. I think it even included the number of pages. In my nerdy mind, having the longest and most impressive list was somehow going to make up for the fact that I couldn't climb a rope or do a backwards summersault in PE.

I'm not as athletic as some guys, so I have to counter that with a tremendous brain that thinks the game.