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

  Margaret Heffernan

  Motivation, Inspiration, Mean

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• Wise people prefer to benefit from constructive criticism rather than be ruined by false praise

  Shiv Khera

  Wise, People, Criticism

  FaceBook post by Shiv Khera from Jun 14, 2016

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• I believe passionately that games are an art form, and that the power of our medium flows from our audience, who are deeply involved in how the story unfolds, and who have the uncontested right to provide constructive criticism. At the same time, I also believe in and support the artistic choices made by the development team.

  Ray Muzyka

  Art, Team, Believe

  "Why Bioware Needs Gamers To Make True Art" by Michael Venbles, www.wired.com. March 27, 2012.

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• We suffer more often in imagination than in reality. [We must learn to control and focus the force of our imagination on the good, bright side so it is positive and constructive helping ourselves and others, rather than let its force focus on the bad, dark side so it is negative and destructive hurting ourselves and others!]

  Seneca the Younger

  Hurt, Dark, Reality

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• To take an unequivocal stand, it seems to me, is of greater heuristic value and far more likely to stimulate constructive criticism than to evade the issue.

  Ernst Mayr

  Issues, Criticism, Heuristics

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• I am not talking about rebelliousness, but giving people time for constructive internal reflection and even daydreaming. A lot of research is suggesting that the more that you demand people's external attention, the less chance you are allowing them to dip into the default mode where daydreams and reflection happen - and lot of great ideas are not going to come from the brute force of work but from personal life experience. Mind-wandering seems to be essential to the creative process, and I don't think a lot of businesses are aware of that fact.

  Scott Barry Kaufman

  Reflection, Thinking, Talking

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

  H. G. Wells

  Cheer, Self, Patriotism

  "The Future in America: A Search After Realities". Book by H. G. Wells, 1906.

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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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• It's too bad for us "literary" enthusiasts, but it's the truth nevertheless -- pictures tell any story more effectively than words . . . If children will read comics . . . why isn't it advisable to give them some constructive comics to read?.

  William Moulton Marston

  Children, Giving, Stories

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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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• Our minds work like a garden. It is fertile ground that accepts any and everything we plant. Good or evil, constructive or destructive, our lives will bear the fruit of the seeds we plant in our minds.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Garden, Thinking, Evil

  Iyanla Vanzant (2012). “Acts Of Faith: Daily Meditations for People of Colour”, Simon and Schuster

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• While people are often content to criticize and blame others for what goes wrong, surely we should at least attempt to put forward constructive ideas. One thing is for certain: given human beings' love of truth, justice, peace, and freedom, creating a better, more compassionate world is a genuine possibility. The potential is there.

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Inspirational, Wisdom

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• We Jews are accused of being destroyers: whatever you put up, we tear down. It is true only in a relative sense. We are not iconoclasts deliberately: we are not enemies of your institutions simply because of the dislike between us. We are a homeless mass seeking satisfaction for our constructive instincts. And in your institutions we cannot find satisfaction.

  Maurice Samuel

  Enemy, Tears, Satisfaction

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• Military power serves the cause of security by making prohibitive the cost of any aggressive attack. It serves the cause of peace by holding up a shield behind which the patient constructive work of peace can go on.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, Military, Cost

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• 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.

  Howard Zinn

  Mean, Thinking, Long

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

  Cassandra Clare

  Way, Cowardice, Said

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.545, Simon and Schuster

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• We're talking about should we increase taxes? Why not put a tax on carbon emissions. It would raise a lot of money, it would reduce the environmental damages in the future, it would solve so many problems, and it would be a much more constructive thing to do than to think about raising the income tax.

  Robert F. Engle

  Thinking, Talking, Carbon Emissions

  Source: bigthink.com

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• He who helps destroy the boll-weevil has done as constructive work as he who plants the seed.

  Rupert Hughes

  Done, Helping, Plant

  Rupert Hughes (1940). “Why I Quit Going to Church: With Answers to Critics and Correspondents”

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• Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous.... 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.

  Brené Brown

  Feelings, Weakness, Connections

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• 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.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Hard Work, Play, People

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• 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.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Voting, Liberty, Males

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• 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.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Mean, Finals, Analysis

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2010). “The Trumpet of Conscience”, p.59, Beacon Press

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• Anything that you are achieving that undermines and threatens systems of power will meet with oppression. Systems of power don't say 'thank you.' What's important is not to focus all your efforts on the oppression, but to continue the constructive work.

  Noam Chomsky

  Focus, Effort, Important

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• We have reason not to be afraid of the machine, for there is always constructive change, the enemy of machines, making them change to fit new conditions.

  Charles Kettering

  Enemy, Machines, Daily Life

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• When you write an article about anything, trolls use the comments to attack. They feel frustrated - but haters are losers. It's not good to feed this aspect. It's more intelligent to be constructive.

  Paulo Coelho

  Writing, Intelligent, Frustrated

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