Constructive Quotes

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Ever since I became NATO Secretary General, I have emphasised the need for enhanced political dialogue among the Allies. And I am glad that, over… — Jaap de Hoop Scheffer
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
It would be a good time to replace the drug war with something more constructive. The cure offered the drug war today has probably been… — George McGovern
We can and should place special emphasis on developing in our youth constructive incentives - a love of science, engineering, and math, so that they… — Ezra Taft Benson
Hostility towards China distorted Australia's international affairs for 20 years until 1972, but reconciliation with China 30 years ago had produced a quarter century of… — Gough Whitlam
Writer's block is a natural affliction. Writers who have never experienced it have something wrong with them. It means there isn't enough friction-that they aren't… — Stanley Kunitz
Pedagogy, like language itself, can either liberate or imprison ideas, inspire of suffocate constructive thinking. — Hyman Bass
The real economic cleavage is not... between employers and employed, but between all who do constructive work, from scientist to laborer, on the one hand,… — R. H. Tawney
Choose the positive. You have choice, you are master of your attitude, choose the positive, the constructive. Optimism is a faith that leads to success. — Bruce Lee
Constructive trade, the two-way exchange of goods and services, is the most efficient and logical way for each nation . . . to build a… — Ronald Reagan
The subconscious mind makes no distinction between constructive and destructive thought impulses. It works with the material we feed it, through our thought impulses. The… — Napoleon Hill
It is not our affluence, or our plumbing, or our clogged freeways that grip the imagination of others. Rather, it is the values upon which… — J. William Fulbright
During my time here [Guantanamo], as Nelson Mandela saysÂ â€¦Â the most important thing you have is time to think about things.Â I came to… — Omar Khadr
Get stoned and abandon all constructive activity. — Timothy Leary
Birth Control which has been criticized as negative and destructive, is really the greatest and most truly eugenic method, and its adoption as part of… — Margaret Sanger
Sometimes we have criticism that is very constructive. — Chris Martin
Create or perish is the eternal mandate of nature. Be constructive or become frustrated is an equal demand. You cannot escape the conclusion that whatever… — Ernest Holmes
Friendship among nations, as among individuals, calls for constructive efforts to muster the forces of humanity in order that an atmosphere of close understanding and… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
The idea is to make sure that these sex offenders are occupied with constructive matters and not focused on the children who may be knocking… — Andrew Spano
From every pulpit in the land it needs to be thundered forth that God still lives, that God still observes, ... still reigns. Faith is… — Arthur W. Pink

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