Constructive Quotes

• What humanity owes to personalities like Buddha, Moses, and Jesus ranks for me higher than all the achievements of the enquiring and constructive mind.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Jesus
  • Humanity
  • Buddha

• I'm a participant in the doctrine of constructive ambiguity.

  

  Vernon A. Walters
  • Ambiguity
  • Constructive

• Paying attention is not just analyzing carefully; rather, it is a constructive act... What we build has only the dimensions we have given it.

  

  Ulric Neisser
  • Attention
  • Build
  • Dimensions

• All I can say is that, as an industry, we are trying to come together and find a way of constructively making a system where we all have a safe environment, and it's going on. I am part of that, and I hope that we come up with a constructive system which is equal and genderless for every human being.

  

  Radhika Apte
  • Environment
  • Being
  • Going

• Rosencrantz: Shouldn't we be doing something--constructive? Guildenstern: What did you have in mind? ... A short, blunt human pyramid...?

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Mind
  • Humans
  • Blunt

• Nothing constructive and worthy of man's efforts ever has or ever will be achieved except by that which comes from a positive mental attitude, based on a definiteness of purpose and activated by a burning desire, and acted upon until the burning desire is elevated to the level of applied faith.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Faith
  • Desire
  • Purpose

• Sometimes the criticism is actually useful and constructive and actually informs what I do, but most of the time, it's sort of mindless, or they're receiving something on a different frequency than I was sending it. They're just not getting what I'm doing, and that's fine.

  

  Michael Ian Black
  • Different
  • Sometimes
  • Criticism

• Gossip is irresponsible communication. Irresponsible because it is at the expense of another person who is not there to defend herself. Irresponsible because it is not constructive: it helps no one, least of all the person being gossiped about.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Helping
  • Communication
  • Gossip

• I love to utilize my celebrity status in a responsible and constructive and substantive manner. I like to get my hands dirty rather than a photo op.

  

  William Baldwin
  • Dirty
  • Responsible
  • Nasty

• Taking constructive criticism from others is required to get to the next level.

  

  Wendy Starland
  • Criticism
  • Required
  • Next Level

• I regard the constituent assembly as the substitute ofsatyagraha. It is constructive satyagraha.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Regard
  • Constructive
  • Ofsatyagraha

• Sometimes we have criticism that is very constructive.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • Sometimes
  • Criticism
  • Constructive

• To be successful is to be helpful, caring and constructive, to make everything and everyone you touch a little bit better.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Successful
  • Helpful
  • Constructive

• There is a type of constructive nonviolent tension that is necessary for growth.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Growth
  • Tension
  • Constructive

• In the final analysis, means and ends must cohere because the end is preexistent in the means, and, ultimately, destructive means cannot bring about constructive ends.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Analysis
  • Destructive
  • Constructive

• Alteration is a constructive act, not a destructive one, and it's the opposite of most of our impulses.

  

  Dario Robleto
  • Opposites
  • Destructive
  • Constructive

• Japan continues to work closely with the United States on the issue of the North Korean nuclear crisis and has played an important and constructive role in the Six-Party talks.

  

  Mike Simpson
  • Important
  • Talks
  • Closely

• I would have assumed you understood, despite our vague suggestions otherwise, we do not welcome constructive criticism.

  

  David Thorne
  • Criticism
  • Welcome
  • Suggestions

• In placing civil disobedience before constructive work I was wrong and I did not profit by the Himalayan blunder that I had committed.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Committed
  • Constructive
  • Civil Disobedience

• I am ready to have dialogue with the concerned parties once the nation is calm and the political temperatures are lowered enough for constructive and productive engagement.

  

  Mwai Kibaki
  • Enough
  • Concerned
  • Engagement

• What I learned constructive about women, not just ethics like never blame them if they pox you because somebody poxed them and lots of times they don't even know they have it — that's in the first reader for squares — is, no matter how they get, always think of them the way they were on the best day they ever had.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Thinking
  • Women
  • Matter

• It's too bad for us "literary" enthusiasts, but it's the truth nevertheless -- pictures tell any story more effectively than words . . . If children will read comics . . . why isn't it advisable to give them some constructive comics to read?.

  

  William Moulton Marston
  • Children
  • Giving
  • Advisable

• Anyway, one of the first things you learn in space is not to thrash. If you have nothing constructive to do, the most constructive thing you can do is often nothing at all. In a mindful sense, I mean. Thrashing is the thing that gets people killed. Not sitting still.

  

  Elizabeth Bear
  • Learn
  • Killed
  • Thrashing

• Be careful, think about the effect of what you say. Your words should be constructive, bring people together, not pull them apart.

  

  Miriam Makeba
  • Together
  • Careful
  • Constructive

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