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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The trouble with our ideals is that if we live up to all of them, we become impossible to live with.
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I would so like to be Lenny Kravitz.
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Just as real events are forgotten, some that never were can be in our memories as if they happened.
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Just as established products and brands need updating to stay alive and vibrant, you periodically need to refresh or reinvent yourself.
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The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
