Constructive Quotes

273 quotes by 231 authors

Constructive complaint requires only two things: that what you are complaining about should be different, and that it can be different. It sounds simple, but… — Julian Baggini
Mrs. Hopewell had no bad qualities of her own but she was able to use other people's in such a constructive way that she never… — Flannery O'Connor
Widespread intellectual and moral docility may be convenient for leaders in the short term, but it is suicidal for nations in the long term. One… — Carl Sagan
If you have only education and knowledge and a lack of the other side, then you may not be a happy person, but a person… — Dalai Lama
For in spite of itself any movement that thinks and acts in terms of an â€˜ism becomes so involved in reaction against other â€˜isms that… — John Dewey
Emotional discomfort, when accepted, rises, crests and falls in a series of waves. Each wave washes a part of us away and deposits treasures we… — Martha Beck
I had hundreds of books under my skin already. Not selected reading, all of it. Some of it could be called trashy. I had been… — Zora Neale Hurston
In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone. — Rollo May
...the number one reason knitters knit is because they are so smart that they need knitting to make boring things interesting. Knitters are so compellingly… — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
There is no virtue inherent in un-constructive suffering. — M. Scott Peck
The true function of logic ... as applied to matters of experience ... is analytic rather than constructive; taken a priori, it shows the possibility… — Bertrand Russell
When we only name the problem, when we state complaint without a constructive focus or resolution, we take hope away. In this way critique can… — Bell Hooks
I would have assumed you understood, despite our vague suggestions otherwise, we do not welcome constructive criticism. — David Thorne
Rosencrantz: Shouldn't we be doing something--constructive? Guildenstern: What did you have in mind? ... A short, blunt human pyramid...? — Tom Stoppard
Part of the problem with the word 'disabilities' is that it immediately suggests an inability to see or hear or walk or do other things… — Fred Rogers
Most people, when they move, well they just move depending on whatever's around them. At this very moment, as I am writing, Constitution the cat… — Muriel Barbery
The only way I know to drive out evil from the country is by the constructive method of filling it with good. — Calvin Coolidge
Alec would have said he could have benefited from a bit more in the way of constructive cowardice. — Cassandra Clare
Where utopianism is advanced through gradualism rather than revolution, albeit steady and persistent as in democratic societies, it can deceive and disarm an unsuspecting population,… — Mark Levin
Senseless violence is a prerogative of youth, which has much energy but little talent for the constructive. — Anthony Burgess

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