Constructive Quotes - Page 5

• The idea of a wanton woman is something I have inserted into almost all of my books. An outlaw figure who is disallowed in the community because of her imagination or activity or status - that kind of anarchic figure has always fascinated me. And the benefits they bring with them, in spite of the fact that they are either dismissed or upbraided - something about their presence is constructive in the long run.

  Toni Morrison

  Running, Book, Ideas

  O, The Oprah Magazine, November 2003.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Constitution remains brilliant in its overall design and sound with respect to the Bill of Rights and the separation of powers. But there are numerous archaic provisions that inhibit constructive change and adaptation. These constitutional bits affect the daily life of the republic and every citizen in it.

  Larry Sabato

  Rights, Design, Republic

  7 Copy quote

• Finally, let's keep well in mind the most important lesson of the auto rescue: While government should stay away from the private sector as much as possible, markets do occasionally fail, and when they do government can play a constructive role, as it did in the case of the auto rescue.

  Steven Rattner

  Government, Play, Mind

  4 Copy quote

• American power confers benefits on most inhabitants of the planet, even on many who dislike it and some who actively oppose it, because the United States plays a major, constructive, and historically unprecedented role in the world.

  Michael Mandelbaum

  Play, United States, Roles

  Michael Mandelbaum (2010). “The Frugal Superpower: America's Global Leadership in a Cash-Strapped Era”, p.53, PublicAffairs

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The truth is that the more responsible the media outlet, the more responsive they are to constructive criticism.

  David Brock

  Media, Criticism, Truth Is

  7 Copy quote

• 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.

  Evalyn Walsh McLean

  Money, New York, Children

  Evalyn Walsh McLean (2015). “Father Struck It Rich”, p.454, Pickle Partners Publishing

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Genius is intellect constructive.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Genius, Intellect

  7 Copy quote

• 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.

  Ringo Starr

  Notebook, Years, Ideas

  Source: alltheseletters.com

  25 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  Zoltan Istvan

  Simple, Odds, Long

  7 Copy quote

• 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.

  Sheila Cassidy

  Waste, Wasting Time, Spend Time

  9 Copy quote

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

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Creative, Use, Rage

  16 Copy quote

• A spiritual partnership is between people who promise themselves to use all of their experiences to grow spiritually. They use their emotions to show them how to create constructive and healthy and joyful consequences instead of destructive and unhealthy and painful consequences.

  Gary Zukav

  Spiritual, People, Healthy

  "Spiritual Partnerships" by Gary Zukav, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 10, 2012.

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• If there's one thing that makes me cynical, it's optimists. They are just far too cynical about cynicism. If only they could see that cynics can be happy, constructive, even fun to hang out with, they might learn a thing or two.

  Julian Baggini

  Fun, Two, Cynical

  "In praise of cynicism" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2013.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is important that the decorum and dignity of the House is upheld at all times. The image of Parliament in the public mind should be one where proceedings, debates and discussions take place with a view to resolve issues through a constructive and co-operative approach.

  Pratibha Patil

  Views, Issues, House

  6 Copy quote

• Often, we are quick to find blame with others but yet are unable to give constructive responses. There seems to be a tendency to doubt almost everything. Do we not have faith in our own people's strengths and in our institutions? Can we afford distrust amongst ourselves?

  Pratibha Patil

  Giving, People, Doubt

  9 Copy quote

• I'm pretty good at gardening. It consumes my time, and it feels like I'm doing something constructive.

  Simon Baker

  Gardening, Feels, My Time

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't judge people. I don't even judge people on 'The Voice.' I'm a coach. I'm there for constructive criticism and to aid and abet and discover new talent.

  Cee Lo Green

  Voice, Judging, People

  "Cee Lo Green Is Fking Outrageous". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. February 5, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• ... men as a rule are more preoccupied with the dangers that threaten their life than interested in the biological forces on which they depend for a constructive existence.

  Rene Dubos

  Men, Risk, Danger

  4 Copy quote

• I definitely managed to do different kinds of things. My focus is usually who the director is, because at the end of the day the director is the storyteller, what the movie is all about. I don't want to participate in something that I don't think is constructive storytelling.

  Bryce Dallas Howard

  Thinking, Focus, The End Of The Day

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Integrating in the society is a fundamental scriptural Christian trait. This integration is a must - moderate constructive integration. All of us, as Egyptians, have to participate.

  Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria

  Christian, Fundamentals, Integrating

  9 Copy quote

• (1) irreversible processes are as real as reversible ones. (2) irreversible processes play a fundamental constructive role in the physical world. (3) irreversibility is deeply rooted in dynamics.

  Ilya Prigogine

  Real, Play, Fundamentals

  20 Copy quote

• If you want to have a good life you have to have some constructive outlet for your feelings.

  William J. Clinton

  Good Life, Feelings, Want

  Clinton, William J. (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1999”, p.599, Best Books on

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• Afghanistan is going to be here a long time, and what's critical is that Afghanistan's relationship with its neighbors are, to the maximum extent they can be, constructive and operationally useful.

  John R. Allen

  Long, Neighbor, Afghanistan

  8 Copy quote

• History shows that great economic and social forces flow like a tide over communities only half conscious of that which is befalling them. Wise statesmen foresee what time is thus bringing, and try to shape institutions and mold men's thoughts and purposes in accordance with the change that is silently coming on. The unwise are those who bring nothing constructive to the process, and who greatly imperil the future of mankind by leaving great questions to be fought out between ignorant change on one hand and ignorant opposition to change on the other.

  John Stuart Mill

  Wise, Men, Hands

  16 Copy quote

• I found it instructive and highly constructive as a writer to go to a point of disaster and come out with a feel for it and then some sort of a lesson based on feeling.

  Fred D'Aguiar

  Feelings, Lessons, Disaster

  Source: therumpus.net

  4 Copy quote

  Show source