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Tag Name "Praising" (74)

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Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear
William Shakespeare
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Praising people behind their back is monstrously unfair, because the one thing you can't defend yourself against is the good that people say about you.
Gregory David Roberts
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Praising all alike, is praising none.
John Gay
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Praising children’s intelligence harms their motivation and it harms their performance.
Carol S. Dweck
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Praising an honest person who doesn't deserve it, always wounds them.
Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
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Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.
Sydney Smith
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It's disgusting that a Broadway show can't try out anymore, that no matter where they are in the world, there is this massive dialogue going on between people damning or praising it.
Victor Garber
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I had much more fun criticizing than praising.
William F. Buckley, Jr.
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The English certainly and fiercely pride themselves in never praising themselves.
Wyndham Lewis
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Thou movest us to delight in praising Thee for Thou hast formed us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless till they find rest in Thee.
Saint Augustine
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I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
Seneca the Younger
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Teachers started recognizing me and praising me for being smart in science and that made me want to be even smarter in science!
Steve Wozniak
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Never let a day pass without looking for the good, feeling the good within you, praising, appreciating, blessing, and being grateful. Make it your life commitment, and you will stand in utter awe of what happens in your life.
Rhonda Byrne
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It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.
George Orwell
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Please be polite. Nothing in life should erode the habit of saying thank you to people or praising them.
Richard Branson
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It is the custom when praising a Russian writer to do so at the expense of all other Russian writers.
Robert Wilson Lynd
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The cost of praising someone is nil - but every psychological study shows the payoff is huge.
Harvey Mackay
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A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man's pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul.
Russell Baker
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A story - with a message about praising what have rather than criticizing what haven't: There are some people who knock the pyramids because they don't have elevators!!!
Jim Ferree
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When you're a young writer and you look at people praising a big hefty anthology that has uncovered a long lost genre, it can be disorienting to look inside it and think, But what it's uncovered still isn't me. What does this mean? Do I not belong in this genre, or is there more of the genre yet to find?
John D'Agata
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Man has an almost infinite capacity for taking things and people for granted and thereby missing out on the pleasure of being grateful that things aren't worse and of praising and thereby lifting the spirits of others.
Aldous Huxley
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Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
Billy Sunday
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The general nature of the speech act fallacy can be stated as follows, using good as our example. Calling something good is characteristically praising or commending or recommending it, etc. But it is a fallacy to infer from this that the meaning of good is explained by saying it is used to perform the act of commendation.
John Searle
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Give recognition where it is due. Compliments stimulate more effort and desire to improve. Be generous with honest praising.
Bruce Lee
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