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

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

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?

I'm particularly fond of boned chicken breasts with a little garlic under the flesh and cooked in a casserole for 40 minutes with a jar of olives, some cherry tomatoes and a spoonful of olive oil.

I was not raised a Zionist, but a socialist, as were most Jews before the Holocaust.

I believe we have to nip Ebola in the bud before it spreads through Africa and to other countries.

Paranoia is just another word for longevity.

Cisco never had a red quarter. Never. Took us three years to get funding, and in those three years, we were never in the red, and that was because we had two products to sell. They were not sexy or cool, but we had enough of a market that we could generate enough of a cash stream to grow the company.

A longbow takes a massive draw for the arrow to go anywhere.

I'm mostly a keep-to-myself kind of guy, but you slowly find yourself getting folded into the musical tapestry.

We both have a great loyalty to it, and I think that it's important to give it our best shot.

Music is a lot more like solving an intricate puzzle with moments of pure, random creative bliss... whereas painting is much more purely random creative bliss with moments of problem solving.

You seldom get that in film where you're lucky if you get any say at all in the final cut.

If the tenth of the population that is gay became visible tomorrow, the panic of the majority of people would inspire repressive legislation of a sort that would shock even the pessimists among us.

The NSA is not listening to anyone's phone calls. They're not reading any Americans' e-mails. They're collecting simply the data that your phone company already has, and which you don't have a reasonable expectation of privacy, so they can search that data quickly in the event of a terrorist plot.

I never thought I could win the French Open.

Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks.

I've always considered myself, at the end of the day, to be kind of a storyteller.

Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

The heritage of a British actor revolves around the challenges of playing the classic roles to meet certain levels of success as an actor. In America, the heritage of an actor is based on cinema mainly.

Barack Obama is a radical, and we should not be afraid to say that.

If you go to a movie and it's a great experience, the experience at the end of it is always like this sadness that it's over, that your time with these characters is finished. There's almost like an achy feeling that I have when I go to a movie that I love and it ends.

There are countless fantastic actors out there who are being denied the opportunity to play Broadway because they're not a name, and I think that's kind of wrong.

How fugitive and brief is mortal life between the budding and the falling leaf.

I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war.

I think we always move from imitation to assimilation to innovation, but I can't name you 20 people outside those we've already recognized who ever got to point three: innovation.

If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions.