“If you’re not able to list your strengths, that’s instructive in itself.” — Harrison Coerver Copy Share Image
Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring, a south wind, not an east wind. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A novel should tell a story, be a pleasure to read, and at the same time it should be thought-provoking, even a… — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“Criticism can be instructive in the sense that it gives readers, including the author of the book, some information about the critic's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“On the worst day of writing, the work is instructive. On the best day, the act is transcendent.” — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
“Every dimension of your suffering will instruct you, until you have learned your essential lessons.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Let the young know they will never find a more interesting, more instructive book than the patient himself. — Giorgio Baglivi Copy Share Image
I found it instructive and highly constructive as a writer to go to a point of disaster and come out with a… — Fred D'Aguiar Copy Share Image
It is instructive, for instance, to trace the computer industry's decline in vision, idealism, creativity, romance and sheer fun as it becomes… — Robert Shea Copy Share Image
It was almost two years after I left Capital that I put out the first one on Chrysalis and that was really… — Leo Kottke Copy Share Image
None of the more apparently expressive elements involved in my work - color, form, application, and so on - are important or… — Landon Metz Copy Share Image
Biographies of great, but especially of good men are most instructive and useful as helps, guides, and incentives to others. Some of… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
All poetry is supposed to be instructive but in an unnoticeable manner; it is supposed to make us aware of what it… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. Genuine ignorance is… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“I loved it, couldn't stop reading, I learnt many more things of medieval time.” — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
Daily life is more instructive than the most effective book. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I think paranoia can be instructive in the right doses. Paranoia is a skill. — John Shirley Copy Share Image
