Quotes About Compliment

Children are accustomed to a continual stream of criticisms and praise, but adults can go weeks without a compliment while enduring criticism both at work and at home. Adults are starved for a kind word. When you understand the power of honest praise (as opposed to bullshitting, flattery, and sucking up), you realize that withholding it borders on immoral. If you see something that impresses you, a decent respect to humanity insists you voice your praise. "Wow.

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A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly, unless you want to hurt the giver.

I felt that there was no irony, it was a real compliment. Then she added with sudden harshness: "I don't want to read anything else that you write." "Why?" She thought about it. "Because it hurts me," and she struck her forehead with her hand and burst out laughing.

the elegant jump from malicious gossip to compliment, seemed to me so very successful that I thought of adult normality precisely as an art of that type.

That last phrase, the elegant jump from malicious gossip to compliment, seemed to me so very successful that I thought of adult normality precisely as an art of that type. I had something to learn.

When she gave me back the notebook, she said, 'You're very clever, of course they always give you ten.' I felt that there was no irony, it was a real compliment. Then she added with sudden harshness: 'I don't want to read anything else that you write.' 'Why?' She thought about it. 'Because it hurts me,' and she struck her forehead with her hand and burst out laughing.

Most people have such a selfish mind that they can't even find the kind heart enshrined in own soul, so obviously often take 'COMPLAINT' made against them by others in prank as own 'COMPLIMENT 'only.

It comes to a point where a lot of people don't know if I'm a man or a woman. I find it quite a compliment.

As a horn player, the greatest compliment one can get is when a person comes to you and says, 'I heard this saxophone on the radio the other day and I knew it was you. I don't know the song, but I know it was you on sax.'

There's a gap between what I want to do, what I do on camera, and what gets edited. Right? So the goal is to try and close the gaps. What's the biggest compliment is if I read a review and it's exactly what I wrote down in my diary before ever filming it. That's really cool. That's the biggest signifier of closing the gaps.

To call me gay is a compliment. Also, if I'd been macho, I'd just have had an audience full of men.

Geek? Sure, call me that. I take that as a compliment.

Children, like animals, and believe me, that's a compliment in my world, feel the difference. They know where the truth lies. They can feel it in a minute if someone is genuine.

I've been sampled so much and I'm glad it's happened, it's a great compliment.

I don't know Russell Brand but I like him a lot. I think he's a good guy.

I can't say enough good things about Bill Burr.

When Whistler was complimented on the portrait of his mother, he said, "You know how it is; one tries to make one's Mummy just as nice as he can.

When people say to me, 'You're like the Anna Kournikova who wins,' I definitely take it as a compliment, because she's quite gorgeous.

'Pretty Lady' is the conversation piece where you just need to compliment your lady. If you are in a club setting, and you just been eyeing a beautiful woman, this song came from me trying to compliment women and them turning their face up at me.

Definitely my sister Anusha, she has always had beautiful thick hair that grows really fast and always shines! No matter how much she colors or styles it always has this great healthy look and feel! Best hair in the biz for sure, but don't tell her I said that.

I refuse the compliment that I think like a man, thought has no sex, one either thinks or one does not.

Everyone thinks they went to high school with me. I take it as a compliment that I look different in every role.

whenever I achieve a little something and am complimented, shortly thereafter I am swiftly kicked in the ass by karma.