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.
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 best leaders lift people up versus tear people down.
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.
I've learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.
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
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.
[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.
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.
Those readiest to criticise are often least able to appreciate.
Some people use things; they destroy. You're a creator, a builder.
A good leader has to at some point trust those around him; otherwise, nothing constructive is going to get done.
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.
I don't focus on criticism. I prefer to praise people and the world, rather than criticize them and it.
