Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale
Quotes to Explore
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The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.
W. Somerset Maugham
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My films do have characters who have trouble escaping the world around them.
Lasse Hallstrom
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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.
J. R. Smith
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Honest criticism, I suppose, has its place. But honest writing is infinitely more valuable.
Rachel Cusk
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The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
Xenophon
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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.
Barbara Kruger
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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.
Sam Hunt
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Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.
Larry McMurtry
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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.
Edmonia Lewis
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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.
Padma Lakshmi
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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.
Samantha Bee
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If a thing seems to you worth working for at all, if it appears to you of moment enough to challenge any effort, then put into what you do all the enthusiasm of which you are capable, regardless of criticism.
Orison Swett Marden
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I'm a confident woman with thick skin, and as a model in the public eye, I'm conditioned to accept criticism.
Ashley Graham
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I am determined that we're going to get the economy really moving again, building on the progress, but never going back to what got us in trouble in the first place.
Hillary Clinton
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The stuff that I got in trouble for, the casting for The Godfather or the flag scene in Patton, was the stuff that was remembered, and was considered the good work.
Francis Ford Coppola
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What is perceived is dictated by the instrument. If you had other eyes, or another mind, you would see all things otherwise.
Gene Wolfe
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The builders of the British Indian Empire have patiently built its four pillars-the European interests, the army, the Indian princes and the communal divisions.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale
