Zitat des Tages über Loben / Praise:
All praise to the masters indeed, but we too could produce a Kant or a Hugo.
Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough.
We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves.
It is more difficult to praise rightly than to blame.
Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck.
Selling public property is the true Chicago way. Had Mr. Obama not been elected president, the nation's business journals would be falling over one another to praise his city for its daring, market-friendly innovations.
These are the kinds of names that Zimbabweans like: names that have positive qualities. Like, Praise is a very popular name; Loveness is a very popular name.
Their silence is praise enough.
The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.
Apple continues to make ever-thinner devices with a superlative build and a luxurious feel. What the company has achieved beneath the surface is worth even more praise.
Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
Taking an interest in what others are thinking and doing is often a much more powerful form of encouragement than praise.
Tim Berners-Lee, the 44-year-old English physicist who created the World Wide Web, is precisely the kind of hero that a relatively simple invention with profound social and economic consequences should lay claim to. He is not just creative but democratic, diplomatic, polite and generous with credit and praise.
My mother, she didn't believe in praise. She'd never say anything was great. I think that's quite Northern, to not make people feel too good. I didn't mind if she was proud of me or not, it didn't bother me. I was never trying to please her.
Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.
When I review Xerxes' achievements, I praise him, not for having yoked the Hellespont, but for having crossed it. But I can see that Nero will neither sail through the Isthmus nor complete his digging.
The highest praise is when a kid says, 'This book feels so real; this could have happened at my school.'
The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
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.'
Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.
I'm told we movie critics praise movies that are long and boring.
An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
I will praise any man that will praise me.
Wonder is involuntary praise.
Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.
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.
I teach students that what people say about failure in politics is mostly wrong. People always told me, 'They'll praise you on your way up and kick you on your way down.' That wasn't my experience. I can't walk down the street in Toronto without someone coming up and saying hello.
Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.
Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
Instead of yelling and spanking, which don't work anyway, I believe in finding creative ways to keep their attention - turning things into a game, for instance. And, when they do something good, positive reinforcement and praise.
Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn't feel right to me - ever.
'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.
He only profits from praise who values criticism.
You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.
Praise God, from whom all blessings flow! Praise Him, all creatures here below! Praise Him above, ye heavenly host! Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost!