Constructive Quotes - Page 9

• Intuitionism is not constructive, perfectionism is unacceptable.

  John Rawls

  Perfectionism

  John Rawls (2009). “A Theory of Justice”, p.46, Harvard University Press

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• Temperance is the wisdom to know that not every constructive job requires a hammer.

  Wes Fesler

  Jobs, Sobriety, Hammers

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• I do what I feel impelled to do, as an artist would. Scientists function in the same way. I see all these as creative activities, as all part of the process of discovery. Perhaps that's one of the characteristics of what I call the evolvers, any subset of the population who keep things moving in a positive, creative, constructive way, revealing the truth and beauty that exists in life and in nature.

  Jonas Salk

  Moving, Artist, Discovery

  Academy of Achievement interview, May 16, 1991.

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• There is no such thing as constructive criticism.

  Dale Carnegie

  Criticism, Constructive Criticism

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• When you’re living by default, you’re automatically reacting to life in habitual ways, many of which may be limiting you and your life. In contrast, living deliberately means making more conscious and constructive life choices. When you’re living deliberately, you’re living from a position of responsibility; you’re making choices with greater awareness. You’re taken yourself off autopilot, so you’re better prepared to align your actions with the results you want to achieve.

  Lauren Mackler

  Taken, Mean, Responsibility

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• There are two kinds of hecklers: the destructive and constructive hecklers.

  John Oliver

  Two, Hecklers, Kind

  Interview with Christopher Kompanek, tv.avclub.com. April 7, 2011.

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• Drawing instruction is a training towards perception, exact observation and exact presentation not of the outward appearances of an object, but of its constructive elements, its lawful forces-tensions, which can be discovered in given objects and of the logical structures of same-education toward clear observation and clear rendering of the contexts, whereby surface phenomena are an introductory step towards the three-dimensional.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Drawing, Perception, Training

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• In scientific thought, the concept functions all the better for being cut off from all background images. In its full exercise, the scientific concept is free from all the delays of its genetic evolution, an evolution which is consequently explained by simple psychology. The virility of knowledge increases with each conquest of the constructive abstraction.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Knowledge, Cutting, Exercise

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• Thus the creative genius may be at once nave and knowledgeable, being at home equally to primitive symbolism and to rigorous logic. He is both more primitive and more cultured, more destructive and more constructive, occasionally crazier and yet adamantly saner, than the average person.

  Frank X. Barron

  Home, Average, Symbolism

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• Knitters just can't watch TV without doing something else. Knitters just can't wait in line, knitters just can't sit waiting at the doctor's office. Knitters need knitting to add a layer of interest in other, less constructive ways.

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  Knitting, Doctors, Office

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2010). “Free-Range Knitter: The Yarn Harlot Writes Again”, p.8, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Nothing constructive and worthy of man's efforts ever has or ever will be achieved except by that which comes from a positive mental attitude, based on a definiteness of purpose and activated by a burning desire, and acted upon until the burning desire is elevated to the level of applied faith.

  Napoleon Hill

  Attitude, Men, Law Of Attraction

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• Times of crisis, of disruption or constructive change, are not only predictable, but desirable. They mean growth. Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Inspirational, Mean, People

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• The more I watch politicians in action, it just makes me angry. I watch certain politicians get asked questions that need answers and may just prance around with a big laugh and smile on my face. Politicians have an arrogance. I just do not understand. I've seen more constructive debate since high school.

  Paolo Nutini

  School, Laughing, Arrogance

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• We are particularly proud of our youth. I think we have never had a stronger generation of young men and women than we have today. For the most part they are true to the faith of their forebears. Surrounded by forces that would pull them down and tremendous pressures to pull them away from time-tested virtues, they are going forward with constructive lives, nurturing themselves both intellectually and spiritually. We have no fears or doubts concerning the future of this work.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Men, Thinking, Our Generation

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

  James Dobson

  Children, Discipline, People

  James C. Dobson (2014). “The New Dare to Discipline”, p.7, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• I don't know whether it's normal or not, but sex has always been something that I take seriously. I would put it higher than tennis on my list of constructive things to do.

  Art Buchwald

  Sex, Tennis, Lists

  Art Buchwald (1994). “Leaving home: a memoir”, Thorndike Pr

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• What I learned constructive about women, not just ethics like never blame them if they pox you because somebody poxed them and lots of times they don't even know they have it — that's in the first reader for squares — is, no matter how they get, always think of them the way they were on the best day they ever had.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Women, Thinking, Matter

  "The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway". The Hemingway Library Edition,

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• The tubular steel chair is surely rational from technical and constructive points of view. It is light, suitable for mass production, and so on. But steel and chromium surfaces are not satisfactory from the human point of view.

  Alvar Aalto

  Light, Views, Steel

  Alvar Aalto, J. Stewart Johnson (1984). “Alvar Aalto, Furniture and Glass: Exhibition the Museum of Modern Art, New York”

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• Who are the happiest people on earth? A craftsman or artist whistling over a job well done. A little child building sand castles. A mother, after a busy day, bathing her baby. A doctor who has finished a difficult and dangerous operation, and saved a human life. Happiness lies in a constructive job well done. Get your happiness out of your work or you will never know what happiness is.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Happiness, Mother, Baby

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• Cage is much more disciplined. He made chance a method and used it in constructive ways; I never did that. Everything here is a little more chaotic.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Cages, Littles

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007”

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• If I feel like I've done the best that I can or conducted myself in the most constructive way that I can in a situation, then I feel peace.

  Adam Yauch

  Peace, Attitude, Done

  "Adam Yauch on Happiness: Part Two". Interview with Randy Taran, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 11, 2012.

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• If you want to be constructive in politics, the less you look back, the better. If you do look back, then it can only be to learn for yourself through the events that have taken place.

  Angela Merkel

  Taken, Learning, Events

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• What is needed in the present plight of mankind is not more science but a change of heart that shall move mankind to devote to constructive and peaceful purposes.

  Ralph Barton Perry

  Moving, Heart, Science

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• All propaganda or popularization involves a putting of the complex into the simple, but such a move is instantly deconstructive. For if the complex can be put into the simple, then it cannot be as complex as it seemed in the first place; and if the simple can be an adequate medium of such complexity, then it cannot after all be as simple as all that.

  Terry Eagleton

  Moving, Simple, Adequate

  "Against The Grain". Book by Terry Eagleton, 1986.

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• Granted you want to go beyond ideas and beyond thought, but that takes years of practice. If you must think, think good thoughts, happy thoughts, and constructive thoughts.

  Frederick Lenz

  Thinking, Years, Practice

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