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Quotes About Constructive

Positive criticism is feedback given with the purpose of helping another person to grow and to develop. Negative criticism is intended to hurt and often to defame and to destroy.
~ L. Lionel Kendrick
If we would divert to constructive research even a small fraction of the money spent each year on the development of ever more toxic sprays, we could find ways to use less dangerous materials and to keep poisons out of our waterways. When will the public become sufficiently aware of the facts to demand such action?
~ Rachel Carson
The value of a human being depends on the quality of information held in his or her brain. Depending on whether that information is positive or negative, destructive or constructive, loving or hateful, the direction and destiny of the person's life will be determined.
~ Ilchi Lee
Education and the warm heart–if you combine these two, then your education, your knowledge, will be constructive. You are yourself then becoming a happy person.
~ Dalai Lama
Los niños con apego seguro están más capacitados para regular sus emociones y tomar decisiones acertadas. Están más preparados para prever las consecuencias de las cosas, tener en cuenta las perspectivas de los demás y actuar de manera constructiva y beneficiosa, no perjudicial y destructiva. Naturalmente, eso facilita las cosas al niño y al progenitor, así como la relación entre ambos.
~ Daniel J. Siegel
Ultimately, a richer language is essential to the skill of constructive criticism.
~ Daniel Kahneman
I can give an undertaking that we will respect the constructive opinion of the opposition. We will look into their views, and how they reflect the people's views.
~ J. Jayalalithaa
If people who cherish freedom, who know the importance of mutual respect and are aware of the imperative necessity to establish a constructive and critical debate, if these people are not ready to speak out, to be more committed and visible, then we can expect sad, painful tomorrows. The choice is ours.
~ Tariq Ramadan
I have a radical thought," Meryl said. "Instead of heading for the hills with guns, why don't we try to find something like the Red Cross, and volunteer. Try to do something constructive.
~ Joe Haldeman
To be successful is to be helpful, caring, and constructive, to make everything and everyone you touch a little bit better. The best thing you have to give is yourself." If
~ John C. Maxwell
Education is not an affair of 'telling' and being told, but an active and constructive process.
~ John Dewey
A movement that begs for vengeance disguised as justice will not be as constructive or strong as beautiful as the movement that begs for peace!
~ Unknown
Incompetence, in my books, is the failure of the critical faculties to interfere constructively with the natural flow.
~ Robert Genn
I commend Sri Chinmoy for his faith and serenity, and I hope he will continue to exert his calming and constructive influence on the international community for many years to come.
~ Brian Mulroney
The purpose of depots like this one is to allow contact between alien species without direct contact. Early on, direct contacts were tried many times, by many different species, in many different ways. It almost always went badly. With few exceptions, alien species are too different from each other to allow constructive interaction. At best the efforts were extremely discomforting to one or both of the contactees. At worst, one or both found the other genuinely repugnant in some way.
~ John Sandford
Commend, Don't Criticize
~ John Wooden
Don't pick on others if you can't yourself take criticisms. If you have to criticize, be constructive.
~ Mufti Ismail Menk
When people have compassion, friendship, and unity, they speak and think in a constructive way to ensure national independence and prosperity.
~ Bhumibol Adulyadej
Criticism can only become 'constructive' for those willing to examine it for potential opportunities to improve themselves.
~ Unknown
Constructive criticism is generally good for self improvement and indirectly helps you to become a more fruitful and stable person.
~ Unknown
Picturing the good things that will happen if you act more constructively can serve as an incentive to change.
~ Mark Goulston
Most of us find it easy to knock things. We always know what we don't like, and we tend to highlight problems and issues rather than build on the elements that we do like.
~ Unknown
You have the freedom to live and let live, to love and let love. Granting yourself that freedom is one of the healthiest, most constructive things you can do for yourself and the people who matter to you.
~ Martha Beck
Sandwich every bit of criticism between two thick layers of praise.
~ Mary Kay Ash