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Constructive criticism is about finding something good and positive to soften the blow to the real critique of what really went on.

Quote by Paula Abdul about criticism, real estate, good, good luck

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

Quote by Charles Dickens about creation, things

I construct timelines for each story and a master timeline for sequencing the stories in the volume.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about love

Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.

Quote by Kevin Bacon about judges

I believe if a private citizen is able to affect public opinion in a constructive way he doesn't have to be an elected public servant to perform a public service.

Quote by Warren Beatty about public, opinion, faith

Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.

Quote by Augustin de Hipona about humility, wish, being, contentment

I see stardom very clearly as a construct that's been created in order to sell things.

Quote by Julie Christie about celebrity, commerce, order, things

Annie Roth is one our best, most inspired costume designers. And she's a full collaborator in constructing a character.

Quote by Glenn Close about character

My own work dealt with the construction of high sensitivity radio frequency preamplifiers and in particular high sensitivity probe assemblies, initially for a 25 MHz, later for a 75 MHz proton resonance spectrometer.

Quote by Richard Ernst about work

I have always conceived of the construction of Europe as a movement which permits slowly and surely an upwards social and economic harmonisation.

Quote by Laurent Fabius

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

Quote by Henry Ford about imagination, use, man

The short cuts are always under construction by the post engineers.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about truth

Whenever the construction process is going well, the bobbin thread runs out.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy

Many of the Iroquois and Huron houses were of similar construction, the partitions being at the sides only, leaving a wide passage down the middle of the house.

Quote by Francis Parkman about country, home, house, being

When President Jiang Zemin visited India in 1996, the two sides decided that they would jointly build a constructive partnership of cooperation oriented towards the 21st century.

Quote by Li Peng about politics

Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality.

Quote by Jean Piaget about reality

Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Quote by Evelyn Waugh about art, symbol, destruction, magic, human imperfections

I don't think I would have been a writer if I hadn't been a mother. I wanted to construct something that contained some of these feelings that I had, some of these discoveries or revelations.

Quote by Carol Shields about writing, revelation, feelings, writers, mother

The construction of a poem equals the carving in marble of a statue, or just only a statuettes. The composition of a statuary group sends you to prose.

Quote by Barbu Cioculescu about literature, contentment

No one is innocent of how we construct reality in which we live.

Quote by Marius Torok about innocence, reality