Robert A. Cook Quotes

My grandmother always used to tell me, if I had a problem, I was only allowed to complain for one second. Then I had to take action.

Complaining doesn't make a difference; it's useless and it's wasted energy.

We make progress in society only if we stop cursing and complaining about its shortcomings and have the courage to do something about them.

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

I like to complain and do nothing to make things better.

It's always better to be for something than it is against something.

I'm looking for someone who will light candles, not just curse the darkness.

Negativity takes no imagination. It's far easier to criticize someone's decisions after they make them than to propose better ones beforehand.

Don't find fault, find a remedy.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

I can't fix the world. If you want to make a difference in life, you have to direct your energies in a focused way.

Focus 90% of your time on solutions and only 10% of your time on problems.

The greatest gift of all time is that you can make creation infectious because people spend less time being negative... If you log all the time with negativity in the while world, I wonder how much better the world would be if people sat down and did something positive. It spirals.

Wanting a more positive environment isn't enough. You need to do something, and it doesn't require a great deal of effort or some huge change in the way you approach things at work.

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

Don't wait for something big to occur. Start where you are, with what you have, and that will always lead you into something greater.

What interests me is seeing a problem and doing something about it, not all of the stuff around it.

In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.

When you're in a situation, you can complain about it, you can feel sorry for yourself, you can do a lot of things. But how are you gonna make the situation better?

I think the future also will not belong to those who are cynical or those who stand on the sidelines.

Whoever criticizes others must have something to replace them. Criticism without suggestion is like trying to stop flood with flood and put out fire with fire. It will surely be without worth.

We just can’t be the party of NO. We have to be the party of solutions.

You have to look to the future with optimism instead of negative ideas. Take the good and the bad and face it head on.

We're facing serious issues. We can either complain about it or try to step in and solve it.

There is always something we can be concerned about. The secret is to rise above it and do whatever we can to make the world a better place.