To be successful is to be helpful, caring and constructive, to make everything and everyone you touch a little bit better.
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.
The only permanent and constructive changes you can make in the world are the changes that you make in yourself.
Critics build nothing.
The best leaders lift people up versus tear people down.
Choose the positive. You have choice, you are master of your attitude, choose the positive, the constructive. Optimism is a faith that leads to success.
The right to criticize must be earned, even if the advice is constructive in nature.
Criticism is important for an actress, and it depends on how you take it. I take it positively and try to learn from it.
But what is criticism? Criticism is purely destructive; anyone can destroy, but not everyone can build up.
You cannot solve a problem by condemning it
I've learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.
Art finds a way to be constructive. It becomes heat in cold places; it becomes light in dark places.
Start edifying the flowers. Stop pointing out the weeds.
I do try to stay positive and maintain a positive environment for my team.
Whenever you can take something positive and make something good out of it, that's what I'm all about.
[On World War II:] The war, which destroyed so much of everything, was also constructive, in a way. It established clearly the cold, and finally unhypocritical fact that the most important thing on earth to men today is money.
Critics never build anything.
Those readiest to criticise are often least able to appreciate.
Some people use things; they destroy. You're a creator, a builder.
We love to receive praise, but usually we're not certain what message, precisely, we should take from it. On the other hand, when someone points out our flaws, we realize immediately that something needs to change.
We'll continue to speak out in a respectful way; never challenging somebody's love for America when you criticize their strategies or their point of view.
Be part of the solution, not part of the problem.
The power of nonviolent resistance can only come from honest working of the constructive programme.
A good leader has to at some point trust those around him; otherwise, nothing constructive is going to get done.
Trusting people to be creative and constructive when given more freedom does not imply an overly optimistic belief in the perfectibility of human nature. It is, rather, belief that the inevitable errors and sins of the human condition are far better overcome by individuals working together in an environment of trust and freedom and mutual respect than by individuals working under a multitude of rules, regulations, and restraints imposed upon them by another group of imperfect individuals.
