The whole world is a scab. The point is to pick it constructively.
The most effective way to ensure the value of the future is to confront the present courageously and constructively.
These problems have been here so long that the only way I’ve been able to function at all is by learning to ignore them. Else I would be in a constant state of panic, unable to think or act constructively.
Mostly, I avoid worrying since the time spent doing it could be spent more constructively.
The leisure time of children must be constructively directed to wholesome, positive pursuits. Too much time viewing television can be destructive. . . It is estimated that growing children today watch television over twenty-five hours per week.
Being constructively critical is good, as long as your purpose is to improve your methods for future endeavors. Lying in bed and replaying failures and telling yourself you're stupid is a tremendous disservice to your efforts and what you can offer the world.
I seldom get self-righteous, and even when I am being impolite (almost always on purpose - there's an art to insulting people, too), I tend to try to not be too serious about it. And most of the time it means that I can take criticism constructively, and sometimes just change my opinion on the fly and laugh at myself over having turned on a dime.
Don't criticize in the sack. Discuss constructively later.
We're not really taught how to recreate constructively. We need to do more than find diversions; we need to restore and expand ourselves. Our idea of relaxing is all too often to plop down in front of the television set and let its pandering idiocy liquefy our brains. Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery - it recharges by running.
There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.
Time has been used destructively by people of ill will much more than it has been used constructively by those of good will.
Live constructively and live optimistically.
