Quotes About Praise

Attention is a strange sort of being, anyway, the idea of attention if someone appreciates your work. It's always nice that someone appreciates your work.

As artists, we do the work that we do. Receiving an award or not receiving an award in no way diminishes one's talent or value.

No work deserves to be criticized that has not much in it that deserves to be applauded.

If you were to write down all the possible ways to motivate people to do better work, friendly praise would have to come near the head of your list.

I like people talking about me, about my defense or what I'm doing. I like to see that, and that makes me work hard.

We need to make sure our students are exerting themselves. We need to praise them when they deserve it and to tell them honestly when they have it in them to work harder.

No research will answer all queries that the future may raise. It is wiser to praise the work for what it has accomplished and then to formulate the problems still to be solved.

The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working. One is tempted to stop and listen to it. The only thing is to turn away and go on working. Work. There is nothing else.

Work is the only thing I do to escape the corruption of praise.

If the playwright is strong enough to hold on to reasonable objectivity in the face of either hostility or praise, he'll do his work the way he was going to anyway.

Beware of the man who praises women's liberation; he is about to quit his job.

Of all the excellent copyedits I've received over the years, Marie-Lynn Hammond's was by far the best. Her work on Half Blood Blues was incredibly sensitive and astute.

I think every player enjoys praise and I have to work extremely hard on the training ground to bring my game together.

Thank you for all your good and beautiful work.

It's always nice when your work is recognized.

I've been lucky. The critics never went out of their way to single me out for doing bad work.

I've received a lot of compliments. People come right up to me on the street. They recognize me.

Being acknowledged for your work is always a great accomplishment, whether it's people in my city, kids in the street, all the way up to the Grammys.

I thought acknowledging praise meant you were arrogant, but I've learned that knowing your strengths enables you to make use of them.

The movie - any sports movie - becomes a praise song to life here on earth, to physical existence itself, beyond striving, beyond economic necessity.

The names of Dingane and Bambata, Hintsa and Makana, Squngthi and Dalasile, Moshoeshoe and Sekhukhuni, were praised as the glory of the entire African nation. I hoped then that life might offer me the opportunity to serve my people and make my own humble contribution to their freedom struggle.

Anything nice that's said about me is diametrically opposed to who I am.

My general approach to opposition is where the government is getting something right, we should say so. And where we disagree with them, we should say so, too.

I'll tell you this about the Oscars - they're real.