Kurdish Proverb Quotes

When I show up to act in a movie for somebody else, I just want to be nice and helpful and do what they want because I know how difficult it is to make a movie. I don't want to cause any problems. So you show up and do your job, and I think if a director understands that, you don't make a lot of demands.

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.

They've participated extensively in this conference and they are doing their best to help.

I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.

Constructive complaint requires only two things: that what you are complaining about should be different, and that it can be different. It sounds simple, but too often our protests fail this test.

It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.

The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.

Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.

The views of several individuals are assuredly preferable to one man, even as the power of a number of men is of course greater than the power of one man.

Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.

Praise in public; rebuke in private.

The highest wisdom of a State is a wise and masterly inactivity …

I praise loudly; I blame softly.

Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club? Could the New Testament have been composed as a conference report? Creative ideas do not spring from groups.

In government, consensus is more important than command; persuasion not only works better than arrogance, it's vital to the democratic process.

Sure we make mistakes. But point them out and we will correct them. Let's not throw the baby out, though, with the dishes.

There should not be several departments independent of one another to superintend different parts of the same natural whole.

If you can't get along with the head of the government with which you are working, you won't get anything done—nothing!

Govern the state by being straightforward; wage war by being crafty; win the empire by not meddling.

Campaigns are partisan. Governing should not be partisan.

Getting rid of a problem in one area improves the situations in ten areas.

One man will carry two buckets of water for his own use, Two men will carry one for their joint use; Three men will carry none for anybody's use.

I would like government to do all it can to mitigate; then, in understanding, in mutuality of interest, in concern for the common good, our tasks will be solved

Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse. To discover little faults has been always the particularity of such brains that are a little or not at all above the average. The superior ones keep quiet or say something against the whole and the great minds transform without blaming.

People here were willing to assume minor roles for the sake of a common enterprise. This spirit of teamwork must have been characteristic of the 19th century and was what made great industrial empires possible.]