Constructive Quotes - Page 10

• The solution to our problems is not more paternalism, laws, decrees, and controls, but the restoration of liberty and free enterprise, the restoration of incentives, to let loose the tremendous constructive energies of 300 million Americans.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Law, Liberty, Incentives

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• Constructive change offers the best method for avoiding destructive change.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Method, Avoiding, Offers

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• Rand`s [Paul] a libertarian. He has a view of the world that I don`t share. He said that we shouldn`t have any troops in Iraq. He agreed with Obama that was a disaster. When there was a chance to do something constructive about Syria with a no-fly zone, he said we don`t need one.

  Barack Obama

  Iraq, Views, Libertarian

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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

  Jim Rohn

  Powerful, Ambition, Achievement

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

  Tituss Burgess

  Healing, Yield, Peaceful

  Twitter post from Apr 30, 2015

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• Non-violent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and establish such creative tension that a community that has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored... I am not afraid of the word tension. I have earnestly worked and preached against violent tension, and there is a type of constructive tension that is necessary for growth.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Direct Action, Issues, Creative

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.88, Beacon Press

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• If only we could love ourselves enough to dare to approach God, what constructive dreams he would give us! What noble possibilities God wants to reveal to us - possibilities that would offer stimulation plus real security in service. But we feel too unworthy. So one layer of negative behavior is laid upon another until we emerge as rebellious sinners. But our rebellion is a reaction, not our nature. By nature we are fearful, not bad.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Dream, Real, Giving

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• Gossip is irresponsible communication. Irresponsible because it is at the expense of another person who is not there to defend herself. Irresponsible because it is not constructive: it helps no one, least of all the person being gossiped about.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Communication, Gossip, Helping

  Rita Mae Brown (1976). “A plain brown rapper”, Diana Pr

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• Expanding the Toronto Island Airport will undermine the downtown's economy and liveability and intensify pollution and smog from Oshawa to Oakville. I urge Torontonians to close down this dangerous Trojan horse and get on with planning constructive and delightful ways of using our magnificent lakeside assets.

  Jane Jacobs

  Horse, Islands, Airports

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• Creativity is energy being put to work in a constructive fashion.

  Frank Barron

  Fashion, Creativity, Energy

  Frank Barron (1969). “Creative person and creative process”, Not Avail

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• Anger has become one of the trendiest emotions of all.  In moderation it can be a righteous force for constructive change.  But its hackneyed omnipresence means the vast majority of its outbreaks are trivial.  The paucity of colorful obscenities is aggravated by an abundance of frivolous fury.

  Rob Brezsny

  Mean, Majority, Emotion

  Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.80, Frog Books

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• The subconscious mind will translate into its physical equivalent a thought impulse of a negative or destructive nature, just as readily as it will act upon thought impulses of a positive or constructive nature. This accounts for the strange phenomenon which so many millions of people experience, referred to as "misfortune" or "bad luck."

  Napoleon Hill

  People, Luck, Mind

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.44, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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

  Sarah-Patton Boyle

  Love, Truth, Inspire

  Sarah Patton Boyle (2016). “The Desegregated Heart: A Virginian’s Stand in Time of Transition”, p.168, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• 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.

  John Dewey

  Teacher, Teaching, Practice

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.32, 谷月社

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• 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.

  Jerry A. Coyne

  Believe, Reality, Two

  "Tania Lombrozo Strokes the Faithful at NPR". "Why Evolution is True" blog by Jerry Coyne, whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com. September 23, 2013.

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• 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!

  Eda LeShan

  Meaningful, Second Chance, Grandparent

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• 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.

  Donald C. Peattie

  Eye, Men, Thinking

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

  Dennis Prager

  Television, Difficult, Shows

  Dennis Prager (1995). “Think a Second Time”, Harpercollins

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

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Yoga, Restless Mind, Energy

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• 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.

  Staffan de Mistura

  Differences, Trying, Common

  "U.N. Envoy: Solution To Syrian Conflict Must Be A 'Political One'". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. July 30, 2015.

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• We do not make very full value of the opportunities provided by technology because we prefer critical to constructive thinking, argument to design.

  Edward de Bono

  Technology, Opportunity, Thinking

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• 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

  Years, Community, Serenity

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• Although I am not a climatologist, it has been interesting to observe climatology from the point of view of an arctic scientist. In order for the field of climatology and IPCC to be healthy, I want to provide a few criticisms, which I hope are constructive."

  Syun-Ichi Akasofu

  Views, Order, Interesting

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• The one common undertaking and universal instrument of the great majority of the human race is the United Nations. A patient, constructive long-term use of its potentialities can bring a real and secure peace to the world.

  Trygve Lie

  Real, Race, Long

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• And violence is impractical, because the old eye for an eye philosophy ends up leaving everybody blind .. It is immoral because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for everybody. Means and ends are inseparable. The means represent the ideal in the making; in the long run of history destructive means cannot bring about constructive ends.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Running, Philosophy, War

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