Expectancy speeds progress. Therefore, live in a continual state of expectancy. No matter how much good you are experiencing today, expect greater… — Ernest Holmes Copy Share Image
In childhood our credulity serves us well. It helps us to pack, with extraordinary rapidity, our skulls full of the wisdom of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is not our affluence, or our plumbing, or our clogged freeways that grip the imagination of others. Rather, it is the… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
Afghanistan is going to be here a long time, and what's critical is that Afghanistan's relationship with its neighbors are, to the… — John R. Allen Copy Share Image
Knowledge is power only when put to use - and then only when the use made of it is constructive. — David J. Schwartz Copy Share Image
We want the U.S. to have constructive and stable relations with China. That makes it much easier for us. Then we don't… — Lee Hsien Loong Copy Share Image
If the Russians have gone too far in subjecting the child and his peer group to conformity to a single set of… — Urie Bronfenbrenner Copy Share Image
Looking forward, it might prove constructive to examine the true historical record of an issue prior to assuming the worst of anyone's… — Gary Ackerman Copy Share Image
I suspect that most authors don't really want criticism, not even constructive criticism. They want straight-out, unabashed, unashamed, fulsome, informed, naked praise,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The great constructive energies of the child ... have hitherto been concealed beneath an accumulation of ideas concerning motherhood. We used to… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
I can see both trends among the youths: people who are ready for a constructive, critical and active presence, and others who… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Whenever the country has faced a crisis, the TDP has played a positive and constructive role. — N. Chandrababu Naidu Copy Share Image
Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Unbounded hopes were placed on each successive extension of the electoral franchise, culminating in the enfranchisement of women.These hopes have been disappointed,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A mood of constructive criticism being upon me, I propose forthwith that the method of choosing legislators now prevailing in the United… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
There's no "should" or "should not" when it comes to having feelings. They're part of who we are and their origins are… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
I'll be explaining that Britain will be leaving the European Union, but I want that process to be as constructive as possible.… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
I do what I feel impelled to do, as an artist would. Scientists function in the same way. I see all these… — Jonas Salk Copy Share Image
Some people drift along like a cork on a river, feeling that they cannot do anything except drift, moment to moment. This… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
Ever since I became NATO Secretary General, I have emphasised the need for enhanced political dialogue among the Allies. And I am… — Jaap de Hoop Scheffer Copy Share Image
Myth and mythology often serve constructive and aspirational purposes. But they also do harm. — Fred Kaplan Copy Share Image
Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism. — Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa Copy Share Image