Constructively Critical Quotes

#1. Being constructively critical is good, as long as your purpose is to improve your methods for future endeavors. Lying in bed and replaying failures and telling yourself you're stupid is a tremendous disservice to your efforts and what you can offer the world.

Chris Hardwick

#2. A lot of people have said that I'm super-snarky and mean. But honesty is the only way to get people to change. It's very important to be constructively critical - give people alternatives and you're giving them a new way to see themselves.

Stacy London

#3. I am able to ride the bike and think clearly about strategy and tyres. I also have positive thinking. I am very constructively critical.

Valentino Rossi

#4. The real purpose of welfare is to get rid of poor people entirely. Everybody knows welfare has bad effects; that's the point.

P. J. O'Rourke

#5. The key to success is dedication to life-long learning.

Stephen Covey

#6. Our debates, for the most part, are examples unworthy of a playground: name-calling, verbal slaps, gossip, giggles, all while the swings and slides of governance remain empty.

Toni Morrison

#7. The whole idea of a democratic application of skepticism is that everyone should have the essential tools to effectively and constructively evaluate claims to knowledge.

Carl Sagan

#8. I've never conspired to overthrow the government; all I did was report on the Arab Spring and suggest that something similar might happen in Ethiopia if the authoritarian regime didn't reform.

Eskinder Nega

#9. The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget.

John Berger

#10. One of the benefits of being you is: You know that the people who love you, love you for you. They don't love you for who they think you are or who you're pretending to be.

Jenna Marbles

#11. The Klingons are not calling to the warriors within us to seek out death. They are calling us to live every moment of every day as our best selves, so that should death arrive unbidden, we may face it without regret.

Kirsten Beyer

#12. Shift from modern nuclear family to the postmodern permeable family.

David Elkind

#13. He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#14. A True friend is one who sees a fault, gives you advice and who defends you in your absence.

Ali Ibn Abi Talib

#15. I don't want to lose the boy with the bread.

Suzanne Collins

#16. Incompetence, in my books, is the failure of the critical faculties to interfere constructively with the natural flow.

Robert Genn