Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Quotes to Explore
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I think I'm somebody who takes praise with a very big - probably too big - pinch of salt.
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The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.
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My films do have characters who have trouble escaping the world around them.
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My iron game. I get into trouble a lot with my driver, so I tend to hit 3-wood off the tee.
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Honest criticism, I suppose, has its place. But honest writing is infinitely more valuable.
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The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
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I always say that I'm an artist who works with pictures and words, so I think that the different aspects of my activity, whether it's writing criticism, or doing visual work that incorporates writing, or teaching, or curating, is all of a single cloth, and I don't make any separation in terms of those practices.
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But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism.
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Perhaps there is no greater evidence that the teachers' union has swung too far out of the mainstream that they both have been a target of near-constant criticism from Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.
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Criticism is valuable... and self-congratulatory experiences are not.
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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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I feel like trouble has followed me from the day I was born.
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He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.
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I experimented and explored ways to find my own niche in Nashville, and I was having trouble with it for a while because stylistically, I didn't feel like I necessarily fit in.
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Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.
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Some praise me because I am a colored girl, and I don't want that kind of praise. I had rather you would point out my defects, for that will teach me something.
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Part of my job as a food writer is to describe food. So my work on 'Top Chef,' I feel, is an extension of that. When we give a criticism to the contestant, we want to make sure we tell them why it's not working and why it would work if they did it a different way.
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I'm shy, but I'm not clinically shy. I don't have social anxiety disorder or anything like that. I more have a gentle shyness. Like, I have a little trouble mingling at parties.
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How often have we ourselves said or have heard others exclaim in times of crisis or trouble, 'I just don't know where to turn'? If we will just use it, there is a gift available to all of us-the gift of looking to God for direction. Here is an avenue of strength, comfort, and guidance.
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If we continually try to force a child to do what he is afraid to do, he will become more timid, and will use his brains and energy, not to explore the unknown, but to find ways to avoid the pressures we put on him.
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I cannot conceive a rank more honorable, than that which flows from the uncorrupted choice of a brave and free people, the purest source and original fountain of all power.
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I go out in the streets, and I go to shows, and I see my fans turn from "I like your last rap" to "I feel your movement; you're keeping it all the way real." One thing I've always said is that's never been my story, and I'm not going to go back on my word.
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The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
