Shortcoming
noun
A fault or a failure to reach a particular standard.
Despite his many achievements, he never ignored his shortcomings.
Often appears as...
- recognize a shortcoming
- overcome a shortcoming
noun
A fault or a failure to reach a particular standard.
Despite his many achievements, he never ignored his shortcomings.
Often appears as...
- recognize a shortcoming
- overcome a shortcoming
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Pro Tip 1/3Self-Improvement
Use 'shortcoming' when discussing areas of personal or professional growth.
He identified punctuality as a shortcoming and worked to improve it.
Pro Tip 2/3Constructive Criticism
'Shortcoming' often appears in feedback aiming to help someone improve.
Her manager pointed out her organizational shortcomings during the evaluation.
Pro Tip 3/3Humility
Mentioning one's own shortcomings shows humility and self-awareness.
In his speech, he humbly admitted his shortcomings as a leader.
Pro Tip 1/3Self-Improvement
Use 'shortcoming' when discussing areas of personal or professional growth.
He identified punctuality as a shortcoming and worked to improve it.
Pro Tip 2/3Constructive Criticism
'Shortcoming' often appears in feedback aiming to help someone improve.
Her manager pointed out her organizational shortcomings during the evaluation.
Pro Tip 3/3Humility
Mentioning one's own shortcomings shows humility and self-awareness.
In his speech, he humbly admitted his shortcomings as a leader.
Pro Tip 1/3Self-Improvement
Use 'shortcoming' when discussing areas of personal or professional growth.
He identified punctuality as a shortcoming and worked to improve it.
Pro Tip 2/3Constructive Criticism
'Shortcoming' often appears in feedback aiming to help someone improve.
Her manager pointed out her organizational shortcomings during the evaluation.
Pro Tip 3/3Humility
Mentioning one's own shortcomings shows humility and self-awareness.
In his speech, he humbly admitted his shortcomings as a leader.
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Mind Blown - Hangout to...
shortcomings in how you perceive reality but I think that one of the cool things is that in a way knowledge is power so upon realizing that you have these shortcomings it might make you pay a little bit more attention into your day-to-day reality you realize that the world is a little bit more ambiguous and that your interpretation of said world is a little more ambiguous than what you
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Psychics, Palm Readers...
the ways the shortcomings of the human sensory system can interfere with your ability to establish what is or is not true and what is science if not the power with tools and training to know when something is true when it might others seem otherwise seem like it's not
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Alice Goffman: How we're...
College has some shortcomings. It's expensive; it leaves young people in debt. But all in all, it's a pretty good path. Young people emerge from college with pride and with great friends and with a lot of knowledge about the world. And perhaps most importantly,
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George Papandreou:...
So let's try something else. Let's see how we can bring people back to the process. Let's throw democracy at the problem. Again, the Ancient Greeks, with all their shortcomings, believed in the wisdom of the crowd at their best moments. In people we trust.
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How to practice...
But it would be much less shocking if I told you it wasn't the friend who said that. It's what the woman said to herself. And that's something we all do, especially after a rejection. We all start thinking of all our faults and all our shortcomings,
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Paving the way towards...
people with big ideas and the determination is so strong you would not dare stand in their way they give me hope that despite all our shortcomings poverty and all the negative things that are always associated with a continent
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What makes something...
according to rules we don't know. On the other hand, by fine-tuning our attention to the absurd, Kafka also reflects our shortcomings back at ourselves. In doing so, he reminds us that the world we live in is one we create,
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Jarreth Merz: Filming...
documenting my own cultural shortcomings. So when the echo of the gunshots had lingered, it was soon drowned by the chanting of the mob, and I didn't believe what I was hearing. They were chanting, "We want peace.
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Mark Kendall: Demo: A...
vaccines are the one technology that has increased our life span the most. That's a pretty hard act to beat. But just like any other technology, vaccines have their shortcomings, and the needle and syringe
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Colin Grant: The son of...
And I even began to feel that this book may be perceived by my father as an act of filial devotion. Poor, deluded fool. Bageye was stung by what he perceived to be the public airing of his shortcomings.
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Mind Blown - Hangout to...
shortcomings in how you perceive reality but I think that one of the cool things is that in a way knowledge is power so upon realizing that you have these shortcomings it might make you pay a little bit more attention into your day-to-day reality you realize that the world is a little bit more ambiguous and that your interpretation of said world is a little more ambiguous than what you
Video examples
Psychics, Palm Readers...
the ways the shortcomings of the human sensory system can interfere with your ability to establish what is or is not true and what is science if not the power with tools and training to know when something is true when it might others seem otherwise seem like it's not
Video examples
Alice Goffman: How we're...
College has some shortcomings. It's expensive; it leaves young people in debt. But all in all, it's a pretty good path. Young people emerge from college with pride and with great friends and with a lot of knowledge about the world. And perhaps most importantly,
Video examples
George Papandreou:...
So let's try something else. Let's see how we can bring people back to the process. Let's throw democracy at the problem. Again, the Ancient Greeks, with all their shortcomings, believed in the wisdom of the crowd at their best moments. In people we trust.
Video examples
How to practice...
But it would be much less shocking if I told you it wasn't the friend who said that. It's what the woman said to herself. And that's something we all do, especially after a rejection. We all start thinking of all our faults and all our shortcomings,
Video examples
Paving the way towards...
people with big ideas and the determination is so strong you would not dare stand in their way they give me hope that despite all our shortcomings poverty and all the negative things that are always associated with a continent
Video examples
What makes something...
according to rules we don't know. On the other hand, by fine-tuning our attention to the absurd, Kafka also reflects our shortcomings back at ourselves. In doing so, he reminds us that the world we live in is one we create,
Video examples
Jarreth Merz: Filming...
documenting my own cultural shortcomings. So when the echo of the gunshots had lingered, it was soon drowned by the chanting of the mob, and I didn't believe what I was hearing. They were chanting, "We want peace.
Video examples
Mark Kendall: Demo: A...
vaccines are the one technology that has increased our life span the most. That's a pretty hard act to beat. But just like any other technology, vaccines have their shortcomings, and the needle and syringe
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Colin Grant: The son of...
And I even began to feel that this book may be perceived by my father as an act of filial devotion. Poor, deluded fool. Bageye was stung by what he perceived to be the public airing of his shortcomings.
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Idina Menzel
American Actress
I'm constantly trying to work on the person that I am and work on my shortcomings, and I guess I want people to know that it's ok to be a work in progress, as long as you keep trying to figure it out. But that search and that discovery is what makes life kind of rich, and it's what makes life rich... period.
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Ram Dass
American Psychologist
You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don't have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success - none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here.
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Leonardo DiCaprio
American Actor
Considering all that's happened in my life, I feel like I'm a pretty levelheaded person that has remained happy and not let my shortcomings overtake the better part of me. I'm fulfilling the things I wanted to fulfill, and I'm still sane.
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Margaret Halsey
American Author
Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.
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Anne Frank
German Writer
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.
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Junot Diaz
American Writer
My greatest responsibility is to acknowledge the mistakes and the shortcomings of the country in which I live, to acknowledge my privileges, and to try to make it a better place.
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LZ Granderson
American Journalist
I don't claim to know everything about parenting, but I do know parents do their children a disservice by constantly sugarcoating their shortcomings to protect their feelings.
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Gulzar
Indian Poet
It is important for poets and writers today to know their shortcomings, and be able to edit their own work as well as reject them if they are not up to their standards.
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James Allen
British Author
The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth.
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Keith Miller
American Author
We live in a constant fear that our shortcomings will be exposed to family, to friends and to the world.
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Idina Menzel
American Actress
I'm constantly trying to work on the person that I am and work on my shortcomings, and I guess I want people to know that it's ok to be a work in progress, as long as you keep trying to figure it out. But that search and that discovery is what makes life kind of rich, and it's what makes life rich... period.
Quote examples
Ram Dass
American Psychologist
You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don't have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success - none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here.
Quote examples
Leonardo DiCaprio
American Actor
Considering all that's happened in my life, I feel like I'm a pretty levelheaded person that has remained happy and not let my shortcomings overtake the better part of me. I'm fulfilling the things I wanted to fulfill, and I'm still sane.
Quote examples
Margaret Halsey
American Author
Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.
Quote examples
Anne Frank
German Writer
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.
Quote examples
Junot Diaz
American Writer
My greatest responsibility is to acknowledge the mistakes and the shortcomings of the country in which I live, to acknowledge my privileges, and to try to make it a better place.
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LZ Granderson
American Journalist
I don't claim to know everything about parenting, but I do know parents do their children a disservice by constantly sugarcoating their shortcomings to protect their feelings.
Quote examples
Gulzar
Indian Poet
It is important for poets and writers today to know their shortcomings, and be able to edit their own work as well as reject them if they are not up to their standards.
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James Allen
British Author
The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth.
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Keith Miller
American Author
We live in a constant fear that our shortcomings will be exposed to family, to friends and to the world.
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