Top 1200 Constructive Criticism Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

Constructive destruction is one of the most delightful employments in the world, and in civilized life the opportunities for it are only too rare.

Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties.

Politicians have an arrogance that I just do not understand. I've seen more constructive debates in high school.

It is extremely difficult to do anything constructive, let alone deep, on daily commercial television, especially on a talk show.

Art is one of the few places where you can put it in a constructive way where it won't burn you up inside or hurt anyone.

If you want to dismiss a negative thought, the only way to do so is to think of something positive and constructive.

Criticism is always going to be painful. You live through it. I'll live through it now. It's even harder when you're younger. You don't have the maturity. You're still developing. If you get damaged while you're developing, it's a psychological battle after that. Today, if I get the criticism, I'm not bothered...if I wear the wrong thing, I'm not going to lose sleep over it. Maybe when I was younger, I might have been more affected by that.

Alec would have said he could have benefited from a bit more in the way of constructive cowardice.

Your regional newspaper, and I like to use this example, in your local museum buys a Picasso, that's news especially if they've spent $10 million for it. But if you don't have a credit on your staff then you don't have anybody who's confident to say whether or not it was a good Picasso, might even be aware of the fact that there are bad Picassos. Arts journalists who don't have the experience of criticism, the skill of criticism, don't think in terms of critical evaluation are not going to be as good a journalist as they might be.

...there ... remains a huge following [of Ayn Rand's philosophy] of those who ignore the indiscretions, infidelities, and moral inconsistencies of the founder and focus instead on the positive aspects of her philosophy. There is much in it to admire, if you do not have to accept the whole package... Criticism of the founder or followers of a philosophy does not, by itself, constitute a negation of any part of the philosophy... Criticism of part of a philosophy does not gainsay the whole.

When people have compassion, friendship, and unity, they speak and think in a constructive way to ensure national independence and prosperity.

Art shows us how to see things that are constructive and good, and to be an active part of that.

Blessing: Constructive thought directed toward anyone or condition. You bless a man when you recognize the divinity in him.

I'm praying for healing for our nation. For retaliation that yields constructive results. Peaceful protests. We need each other.

People who thought that she was busy going around trying to stir up difficulty where there was none or less than she imagined, were quite critical of her. She was, we must never forget, a public figure. And in democracies, public figures tend to attract criticism as well as praise. The most dangerous thing would be if anybody were regarded as above criticism. And Eleanor Roosevelt is, in recent years, getting there.

Loving discipline encourages a child to respect other people and live as a responsible, constructive citizen.

Pedagogy, like language itself, can either liberate or imprison ideas, inspire of suffocate constructive thinking.

Ambition is at the very core of success and extraordinary achievement. Unlike greed, it's a powerful, creative and constructive force.

The pacifist's task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war.

I'm committed to fulfilling my promises to my people, including my pledge to engage in constructive interaction with the world.

America creates myths by focusing a lot of energy on its history and using it - - not always, but sometimes - for constructive purposes.

Virgil Thomson, the great classical music critic, who was also a composer, but said that criticism was the only antidote he knew to pay publicity. Critics at their best are independent voices people take seriously their responsibility to see as many things as they can see, put them in the widest possible perspective, educate their readers, I really do think of myself as a teacher. Newspapers that don't carry arts criticism at all while not fulfill this function. And probably their arts journalism will be deprived as a result.

The U.K. has always had good track record in providing leadership and a constructive agenda for change.

The leadership of the American Legion has not had a constructive thought for the benefit of this country since 1918.

Non-co-operation and civil disobedience in terms of Swaraj are not to be thought of without substantial constructive effort.

Vulnerability is the birthplace of connection and the path to the feeling of worthiness. If it doesn't feel vulnerable, the sharing is probably not constructive.

There are not enough forums where institutions invite their workers to share their failures in a constructive way so the organization can move forward.

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

I think the whole emphasis in England, in universities, on practical criticism (but not that so much as on historical criticism, knowing what period a line comes from) this is almost paralysing. In America, in University, we read - what? - T. S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas, Yeats, that is where we began. Shakespeare flaunted in the background. I'm not sure I agree with this, but I think that' for the young poet, the writing poet, it is not quite so frightening to go to university in America as it is in England, for these reasons.

My track record is that I have always sought to work with warmth and in a constructive way with the leaders of other components of the Jewish faith.

The only way I know to drive out evil from the country is by the constructive method of filling it with good.

To have constructive conversations about the world's energy options, one needs to take a calm look at the numbers.

I think people have too much time in their hands and constructive thinking is just waning in our country.

Our peaceful non-co-operation must be constructive, non-destructive. Poison should not emerge from the throes of love.

I think it's always in order to engage in constructive dialogue, even when you may not get any results.

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

There is in every organism, at whatever level, an underlying flow of movement toward constructive fulfillment of its inherent possibilities.

Christianity and Judaism have gone through the process of enlightenment, making them creative and constructive elements in society.

Indignation and determination are much more constructive emotions than shame and embarrassment. And feminism was this engine that turned one into the other.

I want to work with Peter Robinson as first minister in a positive, constructive way and leave the elections to the electorate.

[For constructive conflict,] we have to resist the neurobiological drive which means that we really prefer people mostly like ourselves.

Also, the commercial media in a superior position, really, to any other corporate lobby, because where would people hear about commercial media or corporate media criticism, where would they hear criticism of them other than in the commercial media?

The new art must be based upon science - in particular, upon mathematics, as the most exact, logical, and graphically constructive of the sciences.

I'm pretty good at gardening. It consumes my time, and it feels like I'm doing something constructive.

Senseless violence is a prerogative of youth, which has much energy but little talent for the constructive.

Yoga is the method by which the restless mind is calmed And the energy directed into constructive channels.

Many times somebody tried to help me be constructive and I just pushed them away.

We want the U.S. to have constructive and stable relations with China. That makes it much easier for us. Then we don't have to choose sides.

I feel like covering my children's eyes when they watch television. It's better that they spend their time doing something constructive.

Two kinds of people live a life without care: one kind are extremely worthy of praise, the other kind are extremely worthy of criticism. The first are those who care nothing for the pleasures of the world and the second (i.e. those who are deserving of criticism) care nothing for haya or modesty.

To take the measure of oneself by reference to one's colleagues leads to envy or complacency rather than constructive self-examination.

I try to spend as little time thinking about myself as possible. I find that's not a constructive way to live.

My personal belief in doing Brand New Congress is that the movement needs something to focus on that's constructive.

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

We may have our own ideas in the writing and editing stages, but we work out those disagreements in a constructive way.

We must continue to foster relevant and constructive dialogue among Israeli and Palestinian communities.

The satisfaction to be derived from success in a great constructive enterprise is one of the most massive that life has to offer.

Differences in approaches do exist, and in one short moment it is impossible to overcome all of them, but i'm convinced ahead of us we have a constructive dialogue.

I give balanced, constructive views and what happens is that bits and pieces of what I say are used against me.

Sometimes when you're praised about something, sometimes it's deserved, and sometimes it's not deserved. Same thing with criticism. Sometimes the criticism is deserved, and sometimes it's not deserved.