Quotes About Praise

The artist is only visiting pain, imagining it. We praise the artist, not the apple, not the apple's shadow, which is murdered slowly. There must be some way of drawing a picture so that it doesn't become an elegy.

Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

Envying another's beauty will diminish your own. But when you praise beauty in others your own beauty deepens.

Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck.

But many of the bravest never are known, and get no praise. That does not lessen their beauty.

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.

We are here to bring to consciousness the beauty and power that are around us and to praise the people who are here with us.

Half-uttered praise is to the curious mind, as to the eye half-veiled beauty is, more precious than the whole.

Translators can be considered as busy matchmakers who praise as extremely desirable a half-veiled beauty. They arouse an irresistible yearning for the original.

The desire which urges us to deserve praise strengthens our good qualities, and praise given to wit, valour, and beauty, tends to increase them.

They're the second best team in the world, and there's no higher praise than that.

I hate tooting my own horn, but after Steven Spielberg saw Yentl, he said: "I wish I could tell you how to fix your picture, but I can't. It's the best film I've seen since Citizen Kane".

Well, I want you to know how much I appreciate this. Really.

If you have enough people sitting around telling you you're wonderful, then you start believing you're fabulous, then someone tells you you stink and you believe that too!

I would like you all to give me a round of applause as I have not crashed my car in over 15 months.

I have a car that I call Flattery because it gets me nowhere.

First, we like pleasure; we are attached to it. Conversely, we don't like pain. Second, we like and are attached to praise. We try to avoid criticism and blame. Third, we like and are attached to fame. We dislike and try to avoid disgrace. Finally, we are attached to gain, to getting what we want. We don't like losing what we have.

Did God mind that dreadful singing, he who made the nightingale and the lark? Probably not. Probably it was the soul of Mrs Crabtree he was listening to, the worshipping song of her heart, and that rang true as a bell.

When a writer tells you his novel has received mixed reviews, it means that after his book was trashed and his heart broken in every newspaper and magazine in America, the weekend critic at the Pekin Daily Times said it was a heart-pounding race to the finish.

It is the nature of humankind to idealize, to indulge in excessive praise as well as unjust condemnation.

In each case, the children who initially received the person-oriented praise, "You are a good drawer," responded less positively. The slightly different, but more process-oriented "You did a good job drawing" produced more positive responses in the children. The difference was particularly marked in the question regarding whether they felt happy or sad.

Because you happen to be a writer doesn't mean you have to deny yourself the ordinary human pleasure of being praised and applauded.

But no mention is made of the fact that it was God they were thanking. . . .

It's fairly simple. When can we pray? All the time. When should we praise God? Whenever we pray.