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“I always love when everybody else is really bringing their game, because it's only going to make the movie better; it just makes you work harder and they work harder and everybody is trying to get their little bit in. It's competitive in a constructive way.”

Way Trying Littles Games Bits Hard Work Little Bit Harder Constructive Work Harder

Author:Jennifer Lopez

“Poetry is creative expression; Prose is constructive expression... by creative I mean original. In Poetry the words are born or reborn in the act of thinking... There is no time interval between the words and the thought when a real poet writes, both of them happen together, and both the thought and the word are Poetry.”

Thinking Writing Mean Real Happens Together Born Creative Poet Expression Originals Prose Poetry Is Constructive Intervals Reborn Creative Expression

Author:Herbert Read

“Intuitionism is not constructive, perfectionism is unacceptable.”

Constructive Perfectionism

Book:A Theory of Justice

Source: A Theory of Justice

“As a great socialist power the Soviet Union is fully aware of its responsibility to the peoples for preserving and strengthening peace. We are open to peaceful, mutually beneficial cooperation with states on all continents. We are for the peaceful settlement of all disputable international problems through serious, equal, and constructive talks.”

States Problem Responsibility Serious Equal Unions International Peaceful Cooperation Soviet Continents Socialist Soviet Union Beneficial Constructive Settlement Strengthening

Book:Soviet-U.S. relations: the selected writings and speeches of Konstantin U. Chernenko

Source: Soviet-U.S. relations: the selected writings and speeches of Konstantin U. Chernenko

“We know that someone who has channeled his anger into something constructive has not had a cow. How do we know these things?”

Knows Cows Constructive

Book:Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things

Source: Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things

“Trusting people to be creative and constructive when given more freedom does not imply an overly optimistic belief in the perfectibility of human nature. It is, rather, belief that the inevitable errors and sins of the human condition are far better overcome by individuals working together in an environment of trust and freedom and mutual respect than by individuals working under a multitude of rules, regulations, and restraints imposed upon them by another group of imperfect individuals.”

“No golfer ever gets so consistently good that he can't use some constructive advice. No matter how many trophies he may win, he can't analyze and remedy his own faults.”

May Matter Use Winning Advice Faults Golf Remedy Consistently Constructive Golfers Trophies

Author:Byron Nelson

“As human beings we are all the same. We have this marvelous intelligence, which sometimes creates problems for us, but when influenced by warm-heartedness can be very constructive. In this context we need to appreciate the value of having moral principles.”

Needs Humans Sometimes Problem Values Human Beings Moral Principles Appreciate Intelligence Warm Marvelous Constructive Sameness Moral Principles Most Meaningful Learn To Appreciate

Author:Dalai Lama

“By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism.”

Whole Challenges Fiction Civilization Criticism Science Fiction Constructive Premises Constructive Criticism Provincialism

Author:Alvin Toffler

“A successful life for a man or for a woman seems to me to lie in the knowledge that one has developed to the limit the capacities with which one was endowed; that one has contributed something constructive to family and friends and to a home community; that one has brought happiness wherever it was possible; that one has earned one's way in the world, has kept some friends, and need not be ashamed to face oneself honestly.”

Men World Way Needs Home Seems Faces Success Lying Community Successful Limits Capacity Oneself Honestly Ashamed Family And Friends Constructive Successful Life

Book:If You Ask Me

Source: If You Ask Me

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

World Opportunity Destruction Employment Civilized Delightful Constructive

Book:Mrs. Miniver

Source: Mrs. Miniver

“The great constructive energies of the child ... have hitherto been concealed beneath an accumulation of ideas concerning motherhood. We used to say it was the mother who formed the child; for it is she who teaches him to walk, talk, and so on. But none of this is really done by the mother. It is an achievement of the child. What the mother brings forth is the baby, but it is the baby who produces the man. Should the mother die, the baby still grows up and completes his work of making the man.”

Men Should Children Stills Ideas Done Used Mother Dies Energy Grows Growth Walks Teach Growing Up Produce He Man Baby Achievement Motherhood Constructive Accumulation Concealed

Author:Maria Montessori

“The child's true constructive energy, a dynamic power, has remained unnoticed for thousands of years. Just as men have trodden the earth, and later tilled its surface, without thought for the immense wealth hidden in its depths, so the men of our day make progress after progress in civilized life, without noticing the treasures that lie hidden in the psychic world of infancy.”

Men World Years Children Earth Lying Energy Wealth Progress He Man Depth Surface Treasure Civilized Immense Psychics Constructive Noticing Infancy Unnoticed

Author:Maria Montessori

“Mind is the creator of everything. You should therefore guide it to create only good. If you cling to a certain thought with dynamic will power, it finally assumes a tangible outward form. When you are able to employ your will always for constructive purposes, you become the controller of your destiny.”

Source: The Law of Success: Using the Power of Spirit to Create Health, Prosperity, and Happiness

“Art finds a way to be constructive. It becomes heat in cold places; it becomes light in dark places.”

Way Art Light Dark Cold Heat Constructive Dark Places

Author:Barbra Streisand

“[On World War II:] The war, which destroyed so much of everything, was also constructive, in a way. It established clearly the cold, and finally unhypocritical fact that the most important thing on earth to men today is money.”

Men World Way Important War Facts Today Earth Money Cold Important Things Destroyed War Of The Worlds World War Ii World War I Constructive

Author:Janet Flanner

“in most important ways, leaders of the future will need the traits and capabilities of leaders throughout history: an eye for change and a steadying hand to provide both vision and reassurance that change can be mastered, a voice that articulates the will of the group and shapes it to constructive ends, and an ability to inspire by force of personality while making others feel empowered to increase and use their own abilities.”

“Mass civil disobedience can use rage as a constructive and creative force.”

Use Force Creative Mass Activism Rage Constructive Disobedience Civil Disobedience

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“We only deliberately waste time with those we love -- it is the purest sign that we love someone if we choose to spend time idly in their presence when we could be doing something more 'constructive.”

Ifs Waste Wasting Time End Times Spend Time Love Someone Constructive Those We Love

Author:Sheila Cassidy

“TEF is predicated on logic, a simple wager that every human faces: If a reasoning human being loves and values life, they will want to live as long as possible-the desire to be immortal. Nevertheless, it's impossible to know if they're going to be immortal once they die. To do nothing doesn't help the odds of attaining immortality-since it seems evident that everyone will die someday and possibly cease to exist. To try to do something scientifically constructive towards ensuring immortality beforehand is the most logical conclusion.”

“With God's help, I've not had a drink in nine and a half years. That's my whole story right there. And because of that, I'm doing this. I'm making records, I'm touring. I was so involved in just getting brain damaged, I wasn't doing anything. I had great ideas, many notebooks filled with notes, some of them I can read and some of them I just can't read, but I really didn't do anything constructive, it was all just good ideas. Now I'm trying to lead a constructive life a day at a time.”

Trying Years I Can Ideas Whole Helping Stories Brain Half Records Involved Drink Filled Notes Nine Good Ideas Constructive Touring Notebook Great Idea Half A Year I Can Read

Author:Ringo Starr

“Working at Pixar you learn the really honest, hard way of making a great movie, which is to surround yourself with people who are much smarter than you, much more talented than you, and incite constructive criticism; you'll get a much better movie out of it.”

People Way Hard Honest Criticism Surround Smarter Constructive Surround Yourself Hard Way Surround Yourself With People Pixar Constructive Criticism

Author:Andrew Stanton

“Money and electricity are much alike. Both are stored energy. Living amidst electricity, using it constantly, you take its presence and its utility for granted. Treated with respect, it is constructive, tireless. Treated with disrespect, it is destructive, vicious. It will light your way, pull a twelve-car train from Washington to New York in a bit more than four hours, kill you or burn your house alike. Electricity is insulated, though, and children are not permitted to play with it.”

Way Children Play Light House Energy Bits Hours Money Four Car New York Train Treated Granted Destructive Twelve Electricity Vicious Utility Constructive Disrespect

Book:Father Struck It Rich

Source: Father Struck It Rich

“Well, Nigeria has played a constructive role in peacekeeping in various parts of West Africa. But unless and until Nigeria itself is democratic and respects human rights, it too may well be a source of much greater instability as political repression limits the ability of the people of Nigeria to achieve their full potential.”

“We cannot create blueprint for future society, but it is good to think about that. It is good to have in mind a goal. It is constructive, it is helpful, it is healthy, to think about what future society might be like, because then it guides you somewhat what you are doing today, but only so long as this discussions about future society don't become obstacles to working towards this future society. Otherwise you can spend discussing this utopian possibility versus that utopian possibility, and in the mean time you are not acting in a way that would bring you closer to that.”

Thinking Way Mind Mean Long Might Today Goal Acting Possibility Healthy Obstacles Guides Discussion Helpful Versus Constructive Discussing Utopian Blueprints Future Society

Author:Howard Zinn

“Many people know how to work hard; many others know how to play well; but the rarest talent in the world is the ability to introduce elements of playfulness into work, and to put some constructive labor into our leisure.”

People Knows World Wells Hard Play Ability Know How Talent Hard Work Elements Labor Leisure Introducing Constructive Playfulness

Author:Sydney J. Harris

“Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is. So you dont fall into the trap of thinking that what you do is abstract.”

Thinking Knows Way Firsts Has Beens Fall Architecture Abstract Traps Abstraction Constructive

Author:Rafael Vinoly

“Planners and designers should encourage as much diversity in human habitats as they find in animal habitats. It is not possible to resolve all conflicts or to gain all ends. Choices have to be made. Different aspects of the public good should be stressed in different places. To achieve variety in land use patterns, there should also be a variety of relationships between the professions, not an institutionalized decision-making tree. Relationships between the constructive professions should, therefore, be deconstructed.”

“Unbounded hopes were placed on each successive extension of the electoral franchise, culminating in the enfranchisement of women.These hopes have been disappointed, because the voters, male and female, being politically untrained and uneducated, have (a) no grasp of constructive measures; (b) loathe taxation as such; (c) dislike being governed at all; and (d) dread and resent any extension of official interference as an encroachment on their personal liberty.”

“The measure discriminates definitely against products which make up what has been universally considered a program of safe farming. The bill upholds as ideals of American farming the men who grow cotton, corn, rice, swine, tobacco, or wheat and nothing else. These are to be given special favors at the expense of the farmer who has toiled for years to build up a constructive farming enterprise to include a variety of crops and livestock.”

“The desert is a natural extension of the inner silence of the body. If humanity's language, technology, and buildings are an extension of its constructive faculties, the desert alone is an extension of its capacity for absence, the ideal schema of humanity's disappearance.”

Ifs Body Humanity Language Natural Silence Technology Building Capacity Ideals Absence Desert Faculty Extensions Constructive Disappearance Schemas

Author:Jean Baudrillard

“Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.”

Should Government Desire Progress Benefits Criticism Objectives Reform Sincere Constructive Constructive Criticism

Author:Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

“If the Russians have gone too far in subjecting the child and his peer group to conformity to a single set of values imposed by the adult society, perhaps we have reached the point of diminishing returns in allowing excessive autonomy and in failing to utilize the constructive potential of the peer group in developing social responsibility and consideration for others.”

Source: 2 Wrlds Childhood

“The goal in raising one's child is to enable him, first, to discover who he wants to be, and then to become a person who can be satisfied with himself and his way of life. Eventually he ought to be able to do in his life whatever seems important, desirable, and worthwhile to him to do; to develop relations with other people that are constructive, satisfying, mutually enriching; and to bear up well under the stresses and hardships he will unavoidably encounter during his life.”

“Paradoxically, the most constructive thing women can do is to write, for in the act of writing we deny our muteness and begin to eliminate some of the difficulties that have been put upon us.”

Writing Has Beens Art Artist Women Difficulty Deny Constructive

Author:Dale Spender

“Serious skeptics, true believers, and seekers of every stripe will want to read Mitch Horowitz's vibrant, probing, and richly researched account of the impact of the positive-thinking movement on every aspect of American life today. Filled with a cast of remarkable characters and many lively tales, One Simple Idea is a readable, responsible examination of the limits and possibilities of mind-power as a source of constructive transformation.”

“Unlike Freud, Jung did not believe that a dream is a mask for a meaning already known but deceitfully withheld from the consciousmind. In his view, dreams were communication, ideas expressed not always straightforwardly, but in the best way possible within the limits of the medium. Dreaming, in Jung's psychology, is a constructive process.”

Way Believe Ideas Dream Process Views Known Psychology Communication Limits Best Way Mediums Mask Constructive Jung

Author:Jeremy Campbell

“The most fearful phenomenon of these midcentury years is not the atom bomb; atomic energy does have its constructive possibilities.... The most fearful event of these times is the colossal expansion of the government of the United States and the constant increase of executive power within the government.”

“Sometimes there is a common threat that can produce a common interest in putting aside all the differences in trying to find a constructive solution.”

Trying Sometimes Interest Differences Common Produce Solutions Threat Constructive Common Interests

Author:Staffan de Mistura

“In the final analysis, means and ends must cohere because the end is preexistent in the means, and, ultimately, destructive means cannot bring about constructive ends.”

Mean Ends Finals Analysis Destructive Constructive

Book:The Trumpet of Conscience

Source: The Trumpet of Conscience

“Once we have a firm practice of compassion our state of mind becomes stronger which leads to inner peace, giving rise to self-confidence, which reduces fear. This makes for constructive members of the community. Self-centredness on the other hand leads to distance, suspicion, mistrust and loneliness, with unhappiness as the result.”

“As the brain of man is the speck of dust in the universe that thinks, so the leaves—the fern and the needled pine and the latticed frond and the seaweed ribbon—perceive the light in a fundamental and constructive sense. … Their leaves see the light, as my eyes can never do. … They impound its stellar energy, and with that force they make life out of the elements.”

Thinking Men Light Eye Universe Energy Force Brain Elements Fundamentals Dust Perceive Constructive Ribbons Specks Seaweed Stellar Ferns

Author:Donald C. Peattie

“If grandparents want to have a meaningful and constructive role, the first lesson they must learn is that becoming a grandparent is not having a second chance at parenthood!”

Ifs Want Firsts Chance Roles Becoming Lessons Meaningful Parenthood Grandparent Constructive Second Chance

Author:Eda LeShan

“Science has only two things to contribute to religion: an analysis of the evolutionary, cultural, and psychological basis for believing things that aren't true, and a scientific disproof of some of faith's claims (e.g., Adam and Eve, the Great Flood). Religion has nothing to contribute to science, and science is best off staying as far away from faith as possible. The "constructive dialogue" between science and faith is, in reality, a destructive monologue, with science making all the good points, tearing down religion in the process.”

Believe Two Reality Process Bases Claims Dialogue Psychological Analysis Two Things Destructive Staying Adam Far Away Flood Constructive Adam And Eve

Author:Jerry A. Coyne

“That education is not an affair of "telling" and being told, but an active and constructive process, is a principle almost as generally violated in practice as conceded in theory. Is not this deplorable situation due to the fact that the doctrine is itself merely told? It is preached; it is lectured; it is written about.”

Facts Process Situation Principles Practice Teacher Written Teaching Theory Affair Active Dues Doctrine Constructive Conceded

Book:Democracy and Education: Top American Authors

Source: Democracy and Education: Top American Authors

“... the constructive power of an image is not measured in terms of its truth, but of the love it inspires.”

Love Truth Term Inspire Constructive Truth Love

Book:The Desegregated Heart: A Virginian’s Stand in Time of Transition

Source: The Desegregated Heart: A Virginian’s Stand in Time of Transition

“Do not fear mistakes - fear only the absence of creative, constructive, and corrective responses to those mistakes.”

Mistake Creative Progress Response Absence Constructive Do Not Fear

Author:W. Rolfe Kerr

“To reduce destructive emotions we need to strengthen constructive emotions. For example, to counter anger we cultivate love and compassion.”

Needs Emotion Compassion Example Destructive Constructive Love And Compassion

Author:Dalai Lama

“Children of the middle years do not do their learning unaffected by attendant feelings of interest, boredom, success, failure, chagrin, joy, humiliation, pleasure, distress and delight. They are whole children responding in a total way, and what they feel is a constant factor that can be constructive or destructive in any learning situation.”

“The organization of supplies, the command of men, anything in any way constructive requires more than intellect; it requires energy and drive and an unrelenting will to serve the cause, regardless of one's personal interests.”

Men Way Energy Causes Interest Organization Intellect Command Constructive Supplies Unrelenting Personal Interest

Author:Erwin Rommel

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