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

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!

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 have to write three books a year to make a reasonable living out of writing - unless, of course, she gets a major American film deal. Phryne has been optioned since the very first book, but to make a historical TV movie, it costs $30,000 a day extra for the historical detail to be correct, so most people aren't doing it.

Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.

Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.

There is something to be said for people who have to work hard, be creative, produce what they have with little - or no - means. Those of us from poor homes have the advantage of thinking for ourselves and of knowing that when times get hard, things could always be worse.

There are two ways of avoiding the snare of woman; one is to shun all women and the other to love all beings.

Problems will disappear as darkness disappears with the onset of light.

To now is to love to see is a joy but to lose is hurtful.

I was born in Evanston, about three blocks away from the Chicago border. My mother, at the time, was finishing her Ph.D. in African History at Northwestern University. Soon after my birth, my parents split, and my father moved to Wicker Park, which is on the north side of the city.

The world seems so meaningless when I am engulfed in the bliss of love and you tracing the evolution of the restless soul of eternal belonging on my face.

You should not be carried away by the dictation of the mind, but the mind should be carried by your dictation.

'Dance India Dance' is family to me. I actually miss the madness whenever the season is not on air.

I'm the heir apparent to the heir presumptive.

In her bottled up is a woman peppery as curry a yam of a woman of butter and brass.

They managed to find time... to tell me that there was no chance of my being accepted for service and that really I should be surprised to still be alive.

A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.

I know. Im lazy. But I made myself a New Years resolution that I would write myself something really special. Which means I have til December right

If I want to go out and eat at a restaurant with amazing food, I'll do that, like, once a week where I'm not thinking about it. I want to indulge! I want to do things that are not necessarily healthy sometimes.

Look before you leap

Scientists announced today that they have discovered a cure for apathy. However, they claim no one has shown the slightest interest in it.

Jerry didn't know he wanted to get married until he was married.

I have my own strength.

When you play guard, you're not going to block a lot of shots. Inside, you're going to block shots.

If a picture is worth a thousand words then the imagination is worth a thousand pictures.

The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.