Constructive criticism is about finding something good and positive to soften the blow to the real critique of what really went on. – Paula Abdul
Everyone is your best friend when you are successful. Make sure that the people that you surround yourself with are also the people that you are not afraid of failing with. – Paula Abdul
Your talent is your art. It is not to be taken for granted. – Paula Abdul
The nature of catastrophe is, after all, reasonably unvarying in the way it ruins, destroys, wounds and devastates. But if something can be learned from the event – not least something as profound as the theory of plate tectonics – then it somehow puts the ruination into a much more positive light. – Simon Winchester