Saturday, 27 May 2017

Criticism Sayings and Quotes



A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still.    

Laurence J. Peter





Don't call the alligator, big mouth until you have crossed the river.    

Belizean (on criticism)





Don't judge anyone unless you've walked in their moccasins one moon.    

Native American Proverb





Don't judge of men's wealth or piety by their Sunday appearances.    

Ben Franklin (1706-1790)





It is easier to criticize than to do better.    

Swiss (on criticism)





Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names can never hurt me.    

unknown





The bad plowman quarrels with his ox.    

Korean (on criticism)





The human tongue is more poisonous than a bee's sting.    

Vietnamese (on criticism)





The pen is mightier than the sword.    

unknown





The rattan basket criticizes the palm    

ed bag, yet both are full of holes. - Filipino (on criticism)





The worst enemy you have is right in your head.    

unknown





When strict with oneself, one rarely fails.    

Confucious ()





Worthless people blame their karma.    

Burmese (on criticism)





You'll never do anything behind you that won't come up in front of you.    

unknown, thanks to "riverrat"





Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

Winston Churchill





Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.

Frank A. Clark





There is no defense against criticism except obscurity.    

Joseph Addison





I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.

Johannes Kepler





The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.    

Elbert Hubbard





The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.    

Norman Vincent Peale





Don't criticize what you can't understand.    

Bob Dylan





To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

Aristotle





He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.    

Abraham Lincoln





Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.    

Ralph Waldo Emerson





People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise.

W. Somerset Maugham





Before you go and criticize the younger generation, just remember who raised them.    

Unknown Author





When we judge or criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says something about our own need to be critical.

Unknown Author





Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.    

Emmet Fox





Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.    

Dale Carnegie





How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

Benjamin Disraeli




Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.

Christopher Hampton





Criticism is the disapproval of people, not for having faults, but having faults different from your own.    

Unknown Author





Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.

Eleanor Roosevelt





Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.

Franklin P. Jones





If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.

Alice Miller





Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it.    

Howard Mumford Jones





Nothing is complete and thus nothing is exempt from criticism.    

James Luther Adams







A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.    

David Brinkley





The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.

Jean De La Bruyere





If criticism had any power to harm, the skunk would be extinct by now.    

Fred Allen





The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth.    

James Allen





Do not seek praise. Seek criticism.    

Paul Arden





Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise.

Mary Kay Ash





Criticism should be a casual conversation.    

W.H Auden





Remember that all is opinion.

Marcus Aurelius





The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

Oscar Wilde





A sneer is the weapon of the weak.

James Russell Lowell





Any jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build it.    

Sam Rayburn





Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead.

Unknown Author





The dread of criticism is the death of genius.

William Gilmore Simms

Creativity Sayings and Quotes



A good book praises itself.    

German (on books and writers)





A good spectator also creates.    

Swiss (on art and creativity)





A goose quill is more dangerous than a lion's claw.    

English (on books and writers)





A library is a repository of medicine for the mind.    

Greek (on books and writers)





A picture is a poem without words.    

Latin (on art and creativity)





A picture's worth a thousand words.    

unknown





A thousand artisans, a thousand plans.    

Chinese (on art and creativity)





All the world's a stage.    

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)





Even the best song becomes tiresome if heard too often.    

Korean (on art and creativity)





Even the best writer has to erase.    

Spanish (on books and writers)





Every age has its book.    

Arabic (on books and writers)





Every picture tells a story.    

unknown





Great ideas are the fuel of progress.    

unknown





Great minds think alike.    

"Punch" (c.1922)





If you believe everything you read, better not read.    

Japanese (on books and writers)





Imagination is more important than knowledge.    

Albert Einstein





Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Charles Caleb Colton (c.1780-1832)





Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself but talent instantly recognizes genius.    

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)





Men willingly believe what they wish.    

Julius Caesar (c.102-44 BC))





Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.    

unknown





Our deeds determine us as much as we determine our deeds.    

George Eliot (1819-1880)





Quality, not quantity.    

unknown





The sight of books removes sorrows from the heart.    

Moroccan (on books and writers)





Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.

Steve Jobs





Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.    

Edward de Bono





Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam





Creative thinking - in terms of idea creativity - is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.

Edward de Bono





Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity    

Charles Mingus





Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas    

Donatella Versace





Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things    

Ray Bradbury




When we engage in what we are naturally suited to do, our work takes on the quality of play and it is play that stimulates creativity.    

Linda Naiman





The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.

Alan Alda





The truly creative person is one who can think crazy; such a person knows full well that many of his great ideas will prove to be worthless. The creative person is flexible; he is able to change as the situation changes, to break habits, to face indecision and changes in conditions without undue stress. He is not threatened by the unexpected as rigid, inflexible people are.    

Frank Goble





The creative person wants to be a know-it-all. He wants to know about all kinds of things-ancient history, nineteenth century mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, hog futures. Because he never knows when these ideas might come together to form a new idea. It may happen six minutes later, or six months, or six years. But he has faith that it will happen.    

Carl Ally





Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.    

Mary Lou Cook





Creativity is seeing something that doesn't exist already. You need to find out how you can bring it into being and that way be a playmate with God.    

Michele Shea





The creative person is willing to live with ambiguity. He doesn't need problems solved immediately and can afford to wait for the right ideas    

Abe Tannenbaum





Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self.    

Erich Fromm





It seems to be one of the paradoxes of creativity that in order to think originally, we must familiarize ourselves with the ideas of others.    

George Kneller





You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.    

Maya Angelou





To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.    

Joseph Chilton Pierce





Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.    

Arthur Koestler





The things we fear most in organizations - fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances - are the primary sources of creativity.    

Margaret J. Wheatley





The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.    

Anthony Jay





Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.    

Rita Mae Brown





Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.    

Gail Sheehy





Human life is inherently creative. It's why we all have different resumes. It's why human culture is so interesting and diverse and dynamic.    

Ken Robinson





For creativity to flourish [requires] the embrace of loss, the oldest and most constant of human experiences.    

Julie Burstein





Creative works may indeed be kind of like property, but it's property that we're all building on.    

Kirby Ferguson





The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.    

Pablo Picasso





The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.    

Albert Einstein

Crazy People Sayings and Quotes



What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?

Ursula K. Leguin





Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.    

Gordon R. Dickson





I never set out to be weird. It was always the other people who called me weird.

Frank Zappa





We are all born mad. Some remain so.

Samuel Beckett





Great wits are sure to madness near allied; And thin partitions do their bonds divide.

John Dryden





Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of the week.

William Dement





A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?

Albert Einstein





Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time.

Haruki Murakami





Sane is boring.

R.A. Salvatore





Crazy people don't sit around wondering if they're nuts.

Jake Gyllenhaal






I like crazy people, especially those who don't see the risk.    

John Lydon





Maybe women get to a certain age and they no longer have a filter; they're considered crazy people or something.    

Michaela Watkins





If you want plenty of experience in dealing with difficult people, then have kids.    

Bo Bennett





The problem with some people is that when they aren't drunk, they're sober.

William Butler Yeats





Don't expect to see positive changes in your life if you surround yourself with negative people.

Zahid Abas





Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.    

Steve Jobs





Dogbert: Reality is always controlled by the people who are most insane.

Scott Adams





The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

Marcus Aurelius





All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.    

Ambrose Bierce





Some may never live, but the crazy never die

Hunter S. Thompson





If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up.    

Hunter S. Thompson





Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong.

Robert Anton Wilson





Religion makes themcrazy. Not a woman I ever met wasn't crazy with religion.

Orson Scott





Never argue with a fool; onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.    

Mark Twain





People that have had genuine abduction experiences that I've met that seem very genuine to me, but they're just confused about why it happened. I've met a lot of people like which I regard as being very genuine... but there's a lot of crazy people out there    

Dave Davies





The country makes me more paranoid, you know? I think the crazy people out there are little crazier.

Jean-Michel Basquiat





Everybody is pathological to a certain degree... the more so the elevated his standing... only myth and cliche have that a person must be either sane or crazy.    

Paul Julius M_bius





When you are pursuing your dreams, they will call you crazy because they are lazy.

Israelmore Ayivor





Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning.    

Gabriel Garcia Marquez





I think 'crazy' is a compliment. I think you make money with people who are crazy.    

Fred Wilson

Friday, 26 May 2017

Crazy Friends Sayings and Quotes



My friends and I are crazy. That's the only thing that keeps us sane.

Matt Schucker





You'll look a lot less crazy if you can get your friend to do it with you.

Unkown





If you have crazy friends, you have everything.    

Unkown





Most of us don't need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with.    

Robert Brault





Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one!    

C. S. Lewis





You don't have to be crazy to be my friend but it sure helps!

Unkown





The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.    

Rita Mae Brown





A large proportion of my best friends are a little bit crazy. ... I try to be cautious with my friends who are too sane. Depression is itself destructive, and it breeds destructive impulses: I am easily disappointed in people who don't get it    

Andrew Solomon





Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.    

Charles Lamb





A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Bernard Meltzer





Best friends...they know how crazy you are and still choose to be seen with you in public.    

unknown





A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad.    

Arnold H. Glasgow





An old friend will help you move. A good friend will help you move a dead body.

Jim Hayes





Behind every successful woman is a best friend giving her crazy ideas.

unknown





You will never realize how wired your friends are until you start to describe them to someone else.

unknown





We are best friends. Always remember that when you fall, I'll pick you up, after I finish laughing.

unknown

Crazy Family Sayings and Quotes



I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.

Erma Bombeck





My family is really boring. They have a coffee table book called 'Pictures We Took Just to Use Up the Rest of the Film.'

Penelope Lombard





If minutes were kept of a family gathering, they would show that "Members not Present"and "Subjects Discussed" were one and the same.    

Robert Brault





Families are like fudge... mostly sweet with a few nuts.

unknown





If you don't believe in ghosts, you've never been to a family reunion.

Ashleigh Brilliant





If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.    

Jeff Foxworthy





Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements    

Elizabeth II





My uncle's dying wish - he wanted me on his lap. He was in the electric chair.

Rodney Dangerfield





Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.

Douglas Adams





Being crazy isn't enough.

Dr. Seuss





Where to look if you've lost your mind?

Bernard Malamud





Some are born mad, some achieve madness, and some have madness thrust upon 'em.

Emilie Autumn





Crazy is a relative term in my family!

unknown





It's hard to give up the self-esteem connected to being codependent and appearing 'right,' which is probably survival behavior learned from growing up in a crazy family. It feels like you will actually disappear.    

Melody Beattie





Ask anyone and they'll most likely say their family is crazy, and if they don't say their family is crazy, their friends are crazy. That's because everyone is crazy after taking the mask off. People are most themselves when not really trying to fit in, when either alone or around those already closest to them, and that is crazy.

Criss Jami





No one wants to rattle the cage of a "crazy" person whose family tends to snap.

Nicole Gulla





Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.

Cary Grant





Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.

R. D. Laing





Insanity is knowing that what you're doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can't stop it.    

Elizabeth Wurtzel





I grew up with six brothers. That's how I learned to dance -waiting for the bathroom.

Bob Hope





I wish to thank my parents for making it all possible...and I wish to thank my children for making it necessary.    

Victor Borge





The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended- and not to take a hint when a hint is not intended.

Robert Frost





Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space.

Evan Esar





In some families, 'please' is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was 'sorry'.

Margaret Laurence





Some family trees bear an enormous crop of nuts.

Wayne H.





Insanity does not run in my family. Rather, it strolls through, taking its time, getting to know everyone personally.    

unknown





We are all born crazy. Some of us remain that way.

Samuel Beckett





Every family has that one crazy person in it. If you're missing one I seem to have a few extras.

unknown





A crazy person has the ability to make a sane person crazy.    

unknown





Never judge someone by their relatives.    

Charles Martin

Coworkers Sayings and Quotes



Take time to appreciate employees and they will reciprocate in a thousand ways    

Bob Nelson





Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Fred Allen





The employees who share innovative ideas may also be the folks who have some hidden talents that would help incorporate their suggestions.    

Harvey Mackay





Public employees should have the right to bargain for better wages and working conditions, just like all employees do.    

Robert Reich





In a lot of work places, you work at a lot of jobs and people work more with their colleagues than with their family.

Russell Hornsby





A lot of my colleagues have been people with broad interests in economics, not just narrowly focused interests.    

Lars Peter Hansen





Spending more time with my colleagues outside the Capitol helps build bipartisan relationships.    

Erik Paulsen





My dearest colleagues seem to become metamorphosed into snarling beasts if I as much as glance at them, even if my glance is a complimentary one.    

Harry Ellis Dickson





Sharing information with employees makes them feel invested.

Glen Mazzara





If you fulfill the wishes of your employees, the employees will fulfill your visions.

Amit Kalantri





Appreciate everything your associates do for the business.

Sam Walton





When you have that respect from your teammates, it makes it a lot more comfortable.    

LeBron James





Mature workers are less impulsive, less reactive, more creative and more centered.

Deepak Chopra





I don't see any of my colleagues as rivals. I don't think our generation needs to do that. We are a chilled out lot, and we should all be happy.

Shahid Kapoor





Colleagues will malign you if you're a moderately successful journalist.    

Robert Fisk





Younger workers should have more freedom to build their retirement nest egg.    

Gresham Barrett





Workers must participate in progress to enjoy their work and take pride in its product.

George W. Romney





It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.    

Warren Buffett





Share your profits with all your associates, and treat them as partners. In turn, they will treat you as a partner, and together you will all perform beyond your wildest expectations.    

Sam Walton





I've never had a teammate competing with me my whole life.

Shawn Johnson





We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.    

Denis Diderot





When employees are happy, they are your very best ambassadors.    

James Sinegal





Once employees feel challenged, invigorated and productive, their efforts will naturally translate into profit and growth for the organisation.    

Ricardo Semler





It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime.

Michael Eisner





The most important quality in a partner is a sense of humour.

Clare Balding





In choosing a partner, always pick the optimist.

Tony Lema





All workers want is a fair shake.

James P. Hoffa





An employee's motivation is a direct result of the sum of interactions with his or her manager.

Bob Nelson





A productive employee who is kept busy working at his or her job is far more likely to be happy at that job and less likely to look for employment elsewhere.    

Zig Ziglar





An employee who's one of hundreds, rather than one of a few, is unlikely to feel personally responsible for helping the organization adapt and change.    

Gary Hamel




A part-time worker is fully employed, half the time. In other words, they are part-time unemployees.    

Jarod Kintz





Most employees don't really want to be highly-paid; they just want to earn more than their peers, and, more importantly, more than their neighbours.    

Mokokoma Mokhonoana





I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.    

Franklin D. Roosevelt





At every stage of my career I have had interesting and cordial colleagues, some of whom are close friends.

Daniel Nathans





My peers and colleagues inspire me.    

Robin Chase





A trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still more so.    

Arthur Conan Doyle





If the workers see themselves faced with defeat through starvation, they will prefer to go down fighting rather than fainting and whether or not we leaders agree.    

Ernest Bevin





I'm an incredibly hard worker, I'm incredibly tenacious, and I'm incredibly detail-oriented.    

David Brock





If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

John Cleese





American workers are first rate.

Christopher Dodd





My co-workers expect me to be late and temperamental.    

Eva Gabor





None of us is as smart as all of us.

Kenneth H. Blanchard





The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

George Santayana





Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.    

Arthur Schopenhauer





I have a million acquaintances but just two or three true friends. I can't hide anything from them.    

Ian Somerhalder





We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.    

Logan Pearsall Smith





I have a lot of acquaintances, a few are buddies    

Toba Beta





An acquaintance is someone we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.    

Ambrose Bierce





When you invite people to share in your miracle, you create future allies during rough weather.

Shannon L. Alder





We may have many acquaintances, but we can have but few friends; this made Aristotle say that he that hath many friends hath none.    

Samuel Johnson

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