Kritik hilft nur, wenn sie konstruktiv ist. Das Selbstwertgefühl eines anderen durch Kritik zu schwächen, ist die größte Schwäche, die man selbst besitzen kann.

Subtile Kritik kann durch das Hervorheben positiver Handlungen des Gegenüber, in Form von Belohnung, mit positiver Konsequenz ausgeübt werden.

Kritik sollte positive Impulse auslösen und nicht aufhalten oder verletzen.

Schweigen ist manchmal Gold.

Lernen Sie Ihren Gegenüber einzuschätzen und handeln Sie mit Empathie!

Wenn sich eine Kritik positiv auf Ihren Gegenüber auswirkt, sprechen wir von einer win-win-Situation.

Der ein oder andere sollte sich eventuell die Weisheitssprüche Salomos zu Gemüte führen und wird schon bald merken: der Ton spielt die Musik!

Wie schön wäre ein Arbeitsverhältnis, das einen mit positiven Energien versorgt, anstatt das eigene Selbstwertgefühl zu schmälern.

Aus Fehlern lernt man ja bekanntlich. Aber ist es nicht viel effektiver, wenn man die positiven Aspekte aufzählt, die das Vermeiden dieses Fehlers mit sich bringt, um jemanden zu motivieren als ihm die negativen Konsequenzen einzutrichtern?

When you look at where the Democratic field is going relative to foreign policy, they are increasingly moving away from a policy of pre-emptive self-defense that the president has adopted since September 11.

No misfortune is so bad that whining about it won't make it worse.

I love working in the theater.

No one likes to be criticized, of course, but if the things we successfully strive for do not make our future selves happy, or if the things we unsuccessfully avoid do, then it seems reasonable (if somewhat ungracious) for them to cast a disparaging glance backward and wonder what the hell we were thinking.

Perhaps you should say there should be mandatory retirement even of members of the court, members of the federal judiciary. I'm sure there can be questions about whether one does as good work when you get into your - you know, I'm 67.

Anything worth doing good takes a little chaos.

I wish I could be behind the wheel for every stunt.

The only way to escape the corruptible effect of praise is to go on working.

I'd do entire music videos in my bedroom, where I used to stand in front of my television memorizing the moves to Michael Jackson's 'Beat It.'

Every relationship should eventually become a long-term relationship. Any director that I meet now isn't just a director. He's potentially a friend, and someone I can call to do a project that I want or that I have.

I have nothing against people having work done, it is when I hear tale of girls of 16 queuing up to get bigger breasts, that is when I despair.

In the blues, it just takes so long for us to get recognized.

If I'm not going to bet on myself, why would anyone else bet on me.

I love poetry; it's my primary literary interest, and I suppose the kind of reading you do when you are reading poems - close reading - can carry over into how you read other things.

Look at growth, look at how much time people spend on the Net and look at the variety of things that they are doing. It's all really good, so I am actually encouraged by the fundamentals that underlie usage growth on the Net.

I love all Helmut Lang. I love Alexander Wang and Alice+Olivia. And there's this brand called Hengst that makes a killer jumpsuit. I'm a sucker for those.

The best thing you can do for yourself is live a life that's fulfilling and do all the things that make you happy.

I couldn't care less about sex unless I meet someone who I think is wonderful.

You can change any status quo, stand out, walk by faith and not by sight and things will definitely go well with you.

I feel very comfortable shooting music, and I think you can see that.

I almost never go to the theatre without seeing someone I've taught or known at Juilliard.

Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?

Asian food is very easy to like because it hits your mouth very differently than European food does. In European food, there may be two things to hit - maybe sweet and salty, maybe salty-savory, but Asian kind of works around, plus you have that distinct flavor that's usually working in Asian food.

One of the first things I did on arriving at school was to break my left arm falling into a bomb crater.