Mike Yaconelli Quotes

If you criticise something then you have to have an alternative, but we do have to try and improve things.

To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.

Don't just analyze a problem - solve it.

I find that quite enjoyable, trying to see the downsides of someone.

We should not seek to tune out the realists' whines or taunts, as they may provide good instruction.

I appreciate both good and bad - I don't want to sit in a bubble where everyone just tells me everything positive to keep my morale high.

Sometimes in order for change to be made in a positive fashion, we must force ourselves to look unblinkingly at painful realities and reevaluate.

People who blame things rarely change things. Blame is an unassailable change-avoidance strategy.

Cynics criticize and winners analyze.

Often in life, the most important question we can ask ourselves is: do we really have the problem we think we have?

Listen to the people who are talking about how to fix what's wrong, not the ones who just work people into a snit over the problems. Listen to the people who have ideas about how to fix things, not the ones who just blame others.

It is not enough just to identify a problem; there are plenty of people who were very skilled at pointing out what was wrong with the world, but they were not always so adept at working out how these things could be righted.

Unfortunately, our existing traditional thinking habits insist that you must attack something and show it to be bad before you can suggest a change. It is more difficult to acknowledge that something is excellent and then to ask for change because although it is excellent, it is not enough.

Valid criticism is something that we are open for, and we take it in the spirit in which it is given and try to improve ourselves.

If anyone says you are bad, this mean he wants you to be good, and I am here to be good, and I want to be good. If they say I have done bad, then they should also give me a chance to change myself for good.

I think whatever you have in your life, my opinion is that if you know that there's something wrong, you try to fix it.

I like to give myself time to deal with an issue. I get to the root of the matter and learn from it. I don't like to repeat mistakes.

When I get serious criticism - if I get serious criticism - it's about how I'm thinking and engaging in a topic. I can't think of an example of someone saying, 'You're too nice.'

If I can understand criticism, I take it very seriously. But it's a process; it doesn't happen overnight.

I see a problem and I invent some sort of solution to it.

You have to be critical of what you do every day, to analyze it and be willing to push it further.

I think it's a good idea to be - to fairly identify where things could have gone better once you get the facts, once you get the data and once you're able to review.

It's not enough to be against something.

Opportunities are where the complaints are.

If I don't like something that's going on in my life, I change it. And I don't sit and complain about it for a year.