Clifton Strengthsfinder Quotes

They ask me to remember but they want me to remember their memories and I keep on remembering mine ~ Lucille Clifton

My son is 7 years old. I am 54. It has taken me a great many years to reach that age. I am more respected in the community, I am stronger, I am more intelligent and I think I am better than he is. I don't want to be a pal, I want to be a father. ~ Clifton Fadiman

Barnett says he realized several things in that moment: the need for humility, the importance of remembering that each of us can learn from anyone and that the dismissed symptom can be the key. ~ Clifton K. Meador

Even as she was about to read the mysterious, tortured hero's declaration of undying passion to the piquant young heroine, Rosalind found herself obliged instead to look up into Marius's decidedly un-mysterious, non-tortured face. ~ Emma Clifton

Clifton, in life you get what you deserve, no more and certainly no less. ~ Jeffrey Archer

Muhammad Ali: Superman Don't need no seat belt. Flight Attendant: Superman Don't need no airplane, either. ~ Clifton Fadiman

Such questions are labeled 'ipsative,' which means that if in reality you have both, the question makes it impossible for you to show up with both. ~ Donald O. Clifton

I have no desire to prolong uncertainty. ~ Clifton Webb

Seriously, I do not know what to say of this book [ Absalom, Absalom!] except that it seem to point to the final blowup of what was once a remarkable, if minor, talent ... this is a penny dreadful tricked up in fancy language and given a specious depth by the expert manipulation of a series of eccentric technical tricks. The characters have no magnitude and no meaning because they have no more reality than a mince-pie nightmare. ~ Clifton Fadiman

In Martin Seligman's words, 'Psychology is half-baked, literally half-baked. We have baked the part about mental illness. We have baked the part about repair and damage. But the other side is unbaked. The side of strengths, the side of what we are good at, the side…of what makes life worth living. ~ Donald O. Clifton

But really, aren't there bits of magic everywhere we look?' Dr. Clifton continues. 'We've just stopped seeing it that way. ~ Emily Bain Murphy

The acid test of a strength? The ability is a strength only if you can fathom yourself doing it repeatedly, happily, and successfully. ~ Donald O. Clifton

It's time you met Mother," said Marius. It was about as far from a declaration of undying passion as a man could get. ~ Emma Clifton

And at night my dreams are full of the cursing of me fucking god fucking me. ~ Lucille Clifton

Wine is a civilizing agent. ~ Clifton Fadiman

King Cygnus dozed in his chair, and a dark shadow curled up in the window seat. That dark shadow happened to have a name, which happened to be Darcy; but nobody really notices dark shadows, even named ones. They have a habit of lurking about. People learn to ignore them after a while. ~ Emma Clifton

Telling the truth about children's lives is radical. ~ Lucille Clifton

Books are like eggs. Somethings you have to crack them open to get anything out. ~ Clifton L. Taulbert

Talent is any recurring pattern of thought, feeling, or behavior that can be productively applied. ~ Donald O. Clifton

The literature of America should reflect the children of America. ~ Lucille Clifton

If someone gives you permission, they can take it away. I give myself permission. ~ Lucille Clifton

Billy Barnes signed me and got me my first role in an interracial love story filmed in Atlanta called 'Together For Days' with Clifton Davis. My mother thinks it was my best work. You cannot find a copy of it. ~ Lois Chiles

It is believed that the average person uses no more than 10% of his or her potential. Ten percent! We're not even scratching the surface of what we're capable of. We are all blessed with a continent of unexplored gifts and talents. Use them, or lose them! ~ Clifton Anderson

The scientist who would rather refute than comprehend demonstrates he has chosen the wrong calling. ~ Mark Clifton

A Life like Mine:

Round and round, round and round, this is how life is feeling at the very moment. Why on earth, would anyone want to live in a life that is never ending chaos? Not me, she thought to herself. Gloria Jacobson, 19 years old, was on her way to a life of success when she was finally looking into a life of school, love, and a family that could look up to her for being the next honor roll student. Well, ok, technically speaking, she wasn't an "Honor roll" Student, and she wasn't in love yet. But she did have one thing, and that was a family that loved her. Skeptical or not, as she was, she was headed to sleep after a long day's journey through thoughts and school. She went to a College Prep school, so it wasn't exactly the easiest. In fact, sometimes school to her could become one of the toughest things.
She rolled up her jean legs and through on her purple hooded jacket then slipped out the door. "Mom will hopefully allow her to go to the school ball tomorrow night"; she thought as she crossed her fingers. It was going to be a school formal, and all the way through elementary and middle school, she wasn't ever allowed to go. Why on earth wouldn't her parents ever let her just be a normal teenage girl. After all she only turns 20, towards the end of graduation. Her entire life was devoted to school work, college apps, and volunteer work at different places after school, and church activities. She never seemed to have any time for boys or even f ~ Ann Clifton

When we studied them, excellent performers were rarely well rounded. On the contrary, they were sharp. ~ Donald O. Clifton

walked erect out of my sleep ~ Lucille Clifton

When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before. ~ Clifton Fadiman

The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech. ~ Clifton Fadiman

'StrengthsFinder 2.0' is an effort to get the core message and language out to a much broader audience. We had no idea how well received the first strengths book would be by general readers - it was oriented more toward managers - or that the energy and excitement would continue to grow. ~ Tom Rath

Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly. ~ Clifton Fadiman

Lastly, since the greatest room for each person's growth lies in his areas of greatest strength, you should devise ways to help each person grow his career without necessarily promoting him up the corporate ladder and out of his areas of strength. In this organization 'promotion' will mean finding ways to give prestige, respect, and financial reward to anyone who has achieved word-class performance in any role, no matter where that role is in the hierarchy. By doing so you will overcome the remaining two obstacles to building a strengths-based organization: the 'even though I'm now in the wrong role, it was the only way to grow my career' problem and the 'I'm in a pass-through role that no one respects' problem. ~ Donald O. Clifton

We must let go of those things that don't serve us. In order to receive the blessings intended for us, we have to make room for them. ~ Clifton Anderson

Always use $$$ where possible Using a monetary value is always the best way to hold your audience's attention and have them remember the KPI. ~ Brian Clifton

[H]e quoted eloquently from the Bill of Rights, the Constitution, the Gettysburg Address, and a section which had been stricken from his party's platform seventy-five years ago. He was not quite clear on what all this had to do with [the present situation], but it was noble and stirring and would bring in a lot of votes. ~ Mark Clifton

I know that YouTube has made me smarter just by having to think about my views and how to defend them. ~ Scott Clifton

[Books] will visit you at your convenience, whether you are lonesome or not, on rainy days or fair. They propose themselves as either transient acquaintances or permanent friends. They will stay as long as you like, departing or returning as you wish. Their friendship entails no obligation. Best of all, and not always true of our merely human friends, they have Cleopatra's infinite variety. ~ Clifton Fadiman

Relationships help us to define who we are and what we can become. Most of us can trace our successes to pivotal relationships. ~ Donald O. Clifton

There is no one on Earth quite like you. No one can compare to you. Three questions: Do you realize how special you are? Do you believe how special you are? Do you demonstrate to the world how special you are? Don't live your life trying to live someone else's life. Be you! ~ Clifton Anderson

Children when they ask you why your mama so funny say she is a poet she don't have no sense ~ Lucille Clifton

In a sense our brains are like an archive, where material is well-preserved and properly catalogued, but also dissolves, or becomes re-shelved or misplaced, or in some cases never makes it there to begin with. ~ Clifton Crais

[Wine is] poetry in a bottle. ~ Clifton Fadiman

Rosalind exploded with a shriek worthy of a tea-kettle. ~ Emma Clifton

Our research into human strengths does not support the extreme, and extremely misleading, assertion that 'you can play any role you set your mind to,' but it does lead us to this truth: Whatever you set your mind to, you will be most successful when you craft your role to play to your signature talents most of the time. ~ Donald O. Clifton