Busquets is a sitting midfield player who breaks up play, intercepts, passes it very quickly and is intelligent. That’s what he is. He’s not much more than that, but he gets a lot of praise for it. Whereas Eric Dier does a similar job, but sometimes gets loads of criticism for it.
It’s incredible, but I will sing the praises of therapy. I think everybody should be in therapy. It helps so much to have somebody educated you can talk to.
I love Jay-Z, I love Kanye, and I praise the way he’s been able to bring more business out of the jungle.
According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the work itself praises and criticizes the master, and therefore I leave to everyone his own value.
I’m not saying Gustafsson isn’t a champion. He’s not the champion that I am. He’s not a champion at all. I’ve won the belt seven times. He got tapped out by Phil Davis and lost to me fair and square. This guy gets so much praise. Having a close fight with me was the greatest thing he’s ever done.
You don’t expect opposition fans to praise the other players.
Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.
It is splendid to be supportive when you see those around you doing well, but blind praise is easier than harsh facts.
The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.
To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work… coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years.
You tend to feel very hurt when people attack you and feel indifferent when you get praise. You think, ‘Of course they like it. They should like it.’
Their silence is praise enough.
We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves.
If there was no Bill Bowerman, there would have been no me. He had about as much of an impact on my life as any one person could have. He taught me about competition and ingrained it in me. He taught me not to praise ordinary performances.
We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us.
Outside you get credit and praise and it makes you feel good, puts a spring in your step, but really the ceiling was the manager. If I was playing at Old Trafford and felt as though I was contributing and winning things, that was enough for me.
To say of a picture, as is often said in its praise, that it shows great and earnest labour, is to say that it is incomplete and unfit for view.
The Premier League is a competition that suits me, which is perhaps more praise to myself. It’s more direct, more rhythmic than Ligue 1.
Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
I like to think that I could praise the good book of someone I personally dislike. I try not to comment on the person, to be insulting, but I have no trouble being insulting to the work.
I’m not – I’m not a person looking for money. I have no political ambitions whatsoever. I don’t seek power. I don’t seek any kind of praise. I have no ego to fulfill.
I am not someone who can be fooled by praise at all. In fact, I quickly sniff out people who are being fake with me. It doesn’t go unnoticed with me.
We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.
Whether we’re happy with our circumstances or not, giving God praise is so important.
Individuals have the right to pick and choose which expressions to condemn, which to praise and which to say nothing about. Governments, however, must remain neutral as to the content of expression. And governments must protect the rights of all to express even the most despicable of views.
I was raised in a Christian household and heard a lot of praise music, so that’s what helps me get to an emotional place.
Write every day; never give up; it’s supposed to be difficult; try to find some pleasure and reward in the act of writing, because you can’t look for praise from editors, readers, or critics. In other words, tips that are much easier to give than to take.
I had many friends to help me to fall; but as to rising again, I was so much left to myself, that I wonder now I was not always on the ground. I praise God for His mercy; for it was He only Who stretched out His hand to me. May He be blessed for ever! Amen.
I don’t get carried away by any praise; I know I have miles to go.
I know that there are people in the industry who praise me in person and then stab me in the back.
When someone praises me, I get wary. If someone has something negative to say, I invite them over for a long chat. They are important for my growth as an actor.
People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
You can only be the great artist for so long – come out with effort after effort that garners all this praise.
The wrong kind of praise creates self-defeating behavior. The right kind motivates students to learn.
Everyone loves to praise me on my character, which I’m so thankful for. But that’s a true testament speaking to my parents, how they raised me.
I never put a lot of praise on myself because of my relationship with Ike. I was just happy when I started to like myself – when I divorced and took control of my life.
I’ve been around long enough to know that a good deal of the praise heaped on me I had nothing to do with. The only thing I did object to was the fact that where the criticism was actually wrong. Did it bother me? Of course it bothered me. But I’ve been around long enough to have ups and downs. So you get over it.
Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.
I have worked really hard to get to where I am, and I like it when I read praise, and I get upset when I read bad messages. It’s all part of being human.
Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith.
Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them.
I make sure I always give Him all the glory and praise, because I know that in one second, one game, one play, it could be all over.
The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.
All the praise I received couldn’t substitute for the praise I had never received from my mother at home. I longed for some wonderful man to come and save me from my life – but there didn’t seem to be any, at least not for me.
These days, those who criticize the Union government are being labelled as anti-BJP and those praise it as BJP supporters. Isn’t there any middle path?
He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.
We should learn to take genuine pride in a job well done and not expect praise for one simply carried out.
Wonder is involuntary praise.
Being manager means living in the middle of the media attention, through praise and critics. This is something I live with. It’s intense and very demanding.
I don’t judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.
It feels wonderful to get praise from other authors who I admire, but with each new book, my confidence is always the thing I struggle with the most until I start getting positive feedback from readers.
God made man merely to hear some praise of what he’d done on those Five Days.
I have nothing but praise for J. K. Rowling. Her contribution – apart from the books themselves, obviously – is showing writers how to interact with the 21st Century.
In my song ‘First Class’ from the film ‘Kalank’, I was okay with the shorter part in the duet because it was to praise the man.
I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so.
Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.
She only praises me if I have done something worthy of praise. I am really happy to have a mum like that, who really cares. She always tells me the truth, and her sincerity helps me a lot.
He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
A person might see that I’ve blurbed a certain book and decide they want nothing to do with it! Like, ‘If that reprobate Toews likes it, forget it!’ So, it’s a crapshoot. But it feels good to be able to praise a book that I love or that has been written by a new writer.
I don’t look for praise.
Trusting in Christ, we may boldly join in the combat, and enlist ourselves among that disinterested band, who fight not for human ambition, or human praise, but for the honour of our Saviour, and the salvation of men.
It would not be possible to praise nurses too highly.
If you do your fair day’s work, you are certain to get your fair day’s wage – in praise or pudding, whichever happens to suit your taste.
