I always wanted praise, and I always wanted attention; I won’t lie to you. I was a jazz critic, and that wasn’t good enough for me. I wanted people to write about me, not me about them. So I thought, ‘What could I do? I can’t sing, I can’t dance, I can’t act or anything like that. OK, I can write.’
The horticultural industry is unimaginative and dominated by vast, supermarket-like outlets. But the small nurseries and growers remain – praise them with your wallets, not your memories.
It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.
I found ‘The Twin’ sitting on a coffee table at a writers’ colony in 2009. It carried praise from J.M. Coetzee. That seemed ample justification for using it to avoid my own writing. I finished it – weeping – a day later, and I’ve been puzzling over its powerful hold on me ever since.
Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.
I can imagine no sweeter way to end one’s life than in the quiet of the country, out of the mad race for money, place and power – far from the demands of business – out of the dusty highway where fools struggle and strive for the hollow praise of other fools.
Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird.
My dad was a tough man. I think that would be putting it mildly. Short on praise, short on communications. Long on leading by example. Lots of integrity, and lots of passion for things. But he was a tough guy.
I can love a person in this life only insofar as he tries to advance in the praise and service of God our Lord; for the man who loves anything for itself and not for the sake of God, does not love God with his whole heart.
It is out of love and not duress that I look after Dilip saab. I am not looking for praises to be called a devoted wife. Just to touch him and cuddle him is the world’s best thing that’s happening to me. I adore him and he is my breath itself.
When I get hate mail, I get really down on myself, and I read it to my mom, and my mom is like, ‘So what? Who cares? These people don’t know you, so you can’t take the praise or the hate to heart.’
Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once in a minute something generous dies for want of it.
It’s hard to enjoy the acclaim and savor the praise when the team isn’t winning.
However great may be the work for which we are responsible, we will always do well if we pause to spend time in sacred praise.
My father would tell me my defects but never praise me to my face. The good things about me he would only tell others when I wasn’t around.
I’ve never seen a film get away completely unscathed like I have ‘Animal Kingdom.’ There’s not a single bad review that I’ve read of it yet; all through Sundance, all it got was high praise.
Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough.
Ma is my biggest critic. When she cleans my cupboard she keeps nagging me as to why I have 20 shoes or why my accessories don’t match my dresses. I just keep hiding things from her. There are times when I wonder why she can’t praise me like other mommies. But, in a way she is right and I like it when she corrects me.
In my neighborhood if you had a nice car, you know what they said about it? You didn’t pay for it. If you wore your clothes a certain way, they questioned your sexuality. If you was smart in school they called you a nerd. If you had a disability, they highlighted it. There’s no praise. There’s only criticism.
One of my pet hates is people re-Tweeting praise, I loathe it more than anything else in the world.
When you’re doing good, everybody praises you. But when everything’s all gone, a lot of people are nowhere to be found. So you always just believe in yourself, do it yourself and you won’t be let down.
The journey that ‘In Praise of Slowness’ has made since publication shows how far this message resonates. The book has been translated into more than 30 languages. It appears on reading lists from business schools to yoga retreats. Rabbis, priests and imams have quoted from it in their sermons.
The best counsel for us to give young people is that they can arrive back to Heavenly Father only as they are guided and corrected by the Spirit of God. So if we are wise, we will encourage, praise, and exemplify everything which invites the companionship of the Holy Ghost.
You can’t let praise or criticism get to you. It’s a weakness to get caught up in either one.
My works on Lord Siva have been received well. But then, since it is in the praise of Siva, its acceptability is limited to those who believe in and pray to Lord Siva.
I never want to get caught up in praises. Never want to get caught up in people telling me how good I am.
Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence.
If you’re open for praise, you have to be open to criticism.
If someone praises me for my acting, all I say is thanks and in case of criticism, I do apologize.
I can’t sing the praises of the crock pot enough.
When you play for India and also start performing, your fan base increases, the media highlights your performances. You feel a sense of positivity with all the praise and adulation that comes your way.
I am proud that my collections have received such praise, and I am even more proud to share the stage with so many talented designers.
Celebrate your child’s achievement, then rotate it when the next mini-masterpiece comes along. Then chuck the old picture. Don’t worry that you’re throwing away a memory. Your children will remember your praise more than they will remember the picture with macaroni and glitter glued on it.
The one woman Trump does seem to totally respect is his daughter from his first marriage, Ivanka, on whom he heaps constant, effusive, at-times borderline creepy praise and physical affection.
I don’t know that praise is always a good thing.
In one’s relationship with dogs and with a newsroom, a generous amount of praise and encouragement goes much better than criticism.
I read about human psychology, practise balance, and accept that everything and everyone in our lives is transient. One day, people will criticise you, and the next day, they will praise you.
What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.
The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
The way to praise a poet is to write a poem.
There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.
Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.
I’ve always heard people’s criticisms twice as loudly as their praise.
Success was always critical to me. What it meant was winning enough praise and external admiration that I could feel myself to be a logical extension of my Uncle Alex, Uncle Zoli, and my father, in that order.
O God, we praise Thee for keeping us till this day, and for the full assurance that Thou wilt never let us go.
No amount of praise should go to your head. You should always remain humble.
Praise the Lord, but do me a favor, don’t ever say ‘Stephen Baldwin’ and ‘ministry’ in the same sentence.
Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame.
Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.
2015 was simultaneously the year in which I consumed the most popcorn of my life and the year in which I received the most praise from my dentist.
For some reason if we hear 100 praises and one criticism, we focus on that one hurtful thing.
I would like to praise all of my coaches, from Pep to the first I had as a kid, because all of them have helped make me who I am.
The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.
I take my teammate’s praises very well. It means I am doing my job well.
Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you’ve got a pretty neck.
‘Classic.’ A book which people praise and don’t read.
The British community is very active and very generous in many different areas. I can only have high praise for them.
I try hard to always question myself and wonder, ‘What could I have done better? What did I do wrong?’ The culture at our company is to be self-critical, but you have to balance that as a leader with praise for your team.
Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great prophets of the past.
A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.
But no one can praise Roosevelt for doing this and then insist that he restored our traditional political and economic systems to their former vitality.
An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
No sensible author wants anything but praise.
It’s somewhat disquieting that the same parents and educators who are horrified by the notion of child soldiers have bestowed upon ‘The Hunger Games’ a double mantle of critical praise and global bestsellerdom.
