Constructive Thinking Quotes

We really do prefer to build things rather than destroy things, believe it or not.

Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.

If ever there was a slamming of the door in the face of constructive investigation, it is the word miracle. To a medieval peasant, a radio would have seemed like a miracle.

I'm often characterized as an optimistic writer, and certainly my 'Neanderthal Parallax' and 'WWW' trilogies shade toward the utopian. I like to think that's not simple naivete, but rather a reasonable approach.

Whatever the problem, be part of the solution. Don’t just sit around raising questions and pointing out obstacles.

Creativity is how we cope with creation. While creation sometimes seems a bit un-graspable, or even pointless, creativity is always meaningful.

Whereas in the past optimism had been regarded as rather shallow - because 'oh well, it's just your temperament, you happen to be just a cheerful sort of person' - what I wanted to do was to establish that in fact it is the pessimists who are allowing all kinds of errors to creep into their work.

Imagination tends to be truly useful if accompanied by the power of mental control - if the worlds in one's head can be purposefully manipulated and distinguished from the real one outside it.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

Delete the negative; accentuate the positive!

You must not under any pretense allow your mind to dwell on any thought that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind.

Avoid cynical and negative people like the plague. They are killers of potential.

Creativity is the antidote to destruction.

I view myself as someone who is always trying to make life better in practical ways and putting the pieces together to do that.

Because we build the worlds we wouldn't mind living in. They contain scary things, problems, but also a sense of rightness that makes them alive and makes us want to live there.

To me, ideas are like annoying salespeople that only go away once I've built them.

I see myself as someone who makes things. Definitions have never done anything but constrain.

I take a lot of enjoyment out of imagining myself as... I dunno... a wall. I keep adding bricks to my wall or little house.

I think the most important thing for your life is the way you interpret things. Having an optimistic point of view is so important - your life will be so bright.

Art is about building a new foundation, not just laying something on top of what's already there.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

The thing that I've learned is that there really is no joy, and nothing ever good is going to come from negativity. Those are thoughts that, even if you were presenting an honest version of yourself, there's just no point in sharing.

I've always been good at realising what went wrong and stuff, and I was always being able to look at the positives from it.

Criticizing to destroy is easy, thinking in order to build is much more difficult to achieve

There is a difference between constructive criticism and criticism that is hateful. I can criticize America, but in a way that shows that I want to improve America and its democracy.