Quotes 441 till 460 of 822.
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Praise and criticism seem to me to operate exactly on the same level. If you get a great review, it's really thrilling for about ten minutes. If you get a bad review, it's really crushing for ten minutes. Either way, you go on.
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Praise does wonders for our sense of hearing.
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Praise from an enemy is the most pleasing of all commendations.
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Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain that the virtuous.
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Praise God even when you don't understand what He is doing.
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Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
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Praise the sea; on shore remain.
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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
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Propaganda has a bad name, but its root meaning is simply to disseminate through a medium, and all writing therefore is propaganda for something. It's a seeding of the self in the consciousness of others.
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Psychoanalysis is an attempt to examine a person's self-justifications. Hence it can be undertaken only with the patient's cooperation and can succeed only when the patient has something to gain by abandoning or modifying his system of self-justification.
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Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.
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Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect.
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Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all the consequences, including the vitiating of his temper and loss of self control. Yield larger things to which you can show no more than equal right; and yield lesser ones, though clearly your own. Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite.
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Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.
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Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image.
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Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.
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Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.
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