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Actors are greedy. They can never be satisfied. I want praise as well as box office returns.
I think I started out because I was desperate for approval and acceptance and praise. Some actors never break away from that. They're after that validation their whole life.
The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.
All praise to the masters indeed, but we too could produce a Kant or a Hugo.
You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.
But no one can praise Roosevelt for doing this and then insist that he restored our traditional political and economic systems to their former vitality.
Trusting in Christ, we may boldly join in the combat, and enlist ourselves among that disinterested band, who fight not for human ambition, or human praise, but for the honour of our Saviour, and the salvation of men.
Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.
In football you can take the praise when it comes, but you've got to be ready to take the criticism as well.
Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once in a minute something generous dies for want of it.
Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.
It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their confusions.
I've never seen a film get away completely unscathed like I have 'Animal Kingdom.' There's not a single bad review that I've read of it yet; all through Sundance, all it got was high praise.
We completely support Commissioner Silver's decision today regarding Clippers owner Donald Sterling, and praise him for his prompt investigation and action.
I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.
To say of a picture, as is often said in its praise, that it shows great and earnest labour, is to say that it is incomplete and unfit for view.
In every age and every man there is something to praise as well as to blame.
When a book of mine comes out, I instantly go hunting the net, not for praise, but for criticism, because that's how you learn, from people who don't have to be polite to you.
Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'
The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.
I have never made a film to praise or to criticize something. That kind of filmmaking is nothing but propaganda.
Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land.
Being taken for granted is an unpleasant but sincere form of praise. Ironically, the more reliable you are, and the less you complain, the more likely you are to be taken for granted.
We should learn to take genuine pride in a job well done and not expect praise for one simply carried out.
I don't see many people as heroes and, though I love sport, I believe athletes rarely deserve that praise.
The pat on the back, the arm around the shoulder, the praise for what was done right and the sympathetic nod for what wasn't are as much a part of golf as life itself.
To the house of a friend if you're pleased to retire, You must all things admit, you must all things admire; You must pay with observance the price of your treat, You must eat what is praised, and must praise what you eat.
You don't want to be too proud, to get carried away, but if people give you praise, you don't want to throw it back.
Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self-esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge.
We sing inspirational songs, songs of praise and worship, and about how good and how big God is. We are magnifying the Lord.
Praise your children more than you correct them. Praise them for even their smallest achievement.
People who make the choice to study, work hard or do whatever they endeavor is to give it the max on themselves to reach to the top level. And you have the people who get envy and jealous, yet are not willing to put that work in, and they want to get the same praise.
Anybody who instantly goes from being a poet and a graduate student to being a public figure has to be in a state of shock. First people want to praise you, and then they want to attack you. No one can prepare you for it.
Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck.
Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
I am basically a citizen of the modern world, as we all are, praise the Lord and damn us all to hell.
Going to the Combine, I had a lot of eyes on me, high praise on me, so I had to perform well at the Combine, or everything would have just went downhill.
Of my English friends, I should find language too poor to speak the just praise and the excellence which shines in their characters and lives.
I thought acknowledging praise meant you were arrogant, but I've learned that knowing your strengths enables you to make use of them.
I would like to praise all of my coaches, from Pep to the first I had as a kid, because all of them have helped make me who I am.
It's an honour for any player that a club of the prestige of Manchester United should follow them, and that, in itself, is enormous praise.
There were songs that we cut out after we chose the name, because 'Praise Break' turned out to be an underlying concept that I didn’t know was there.
Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose.
An actor remembers his first piece of published praise. It is written on his heart.
God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.
I take praise as not just a reward and a result but also as the beginning of a new process.
Fans will praise you, scold you, and offer helpful advice. Fans will also defend you.
I tell you the groans of the damned in hell are the deep bass of the universal anthem of praise that shall ascend to the throne of my God for ever and ever.
O God, we praise Thee for keeping us till this day, and for the full assurance that Thou wilt never let us go.
All our actions, as well as our thoughts and words, should praise Him who always blesses us.
We increase whatever we praise. The whole creation responds to praise, and is glad.
We love to receive praise, but usually we're not certain what message, precisely, we should take from it. On the other hand, when someone points out our flaws, we realize immediately that something needs to change.
I have to give all praise to the Man above, because I never gave up on Him, and He never gave up on me.
What we found was that the greater proportion of process praise, the more likely the child was to have a mindset five years later that welcomed challenges and that represented traits as malleable, not a label you were stuck with.
The wrong kind of praise creates self-defeating behavior. The right kind motivates students to learn.
We found that process praise predicted the child's mindset and desire for challenge five years later.
The spark for 'In Praise of Slowness' came when I began reading to my children. Every parent knows that kids like their bedtime stories read at a gentle, meandering pace. But I used to be too fast to slow down with the Brothers Grimm. I would zoom through the classic fairy tales, skipping lines, paragraphs, whole pages.
'In Praise of Slowness' chronicles the global trend towards deceleration that has come to be known as the Slow Movement. Don't worry, though: it is not a Luddite rant. I love speed. Going fast can be fun, liberating and productive. The problem is that our hunger for speed, for cramming more and more into less and less time, has gone too far.
The journey that 'In Praise of Slowness' has made since publication shows how far this message resonates. The book has been translated into more than 30 languages. It appears on reading lists from business schools to yoga retreats. Rabbis, priests and imams have quoted from it in their sermons.
My first book, 'In Praise of Slowness,' examines how the world got stuck in fast-forward and chronicles a global trend towards putting on the brakes. That trend is called the Slow movement. 'Slow' in this context does not mean doing everything at a snail's pace. It means doing everything at the right speed.
Chick flick is not a term used to praise a movie. Nobody says 'it's a great chick flick.' It's a way of being derisive. I'm not clear why it's ok to do it.
The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.
I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me.
Many of Bush's defenders have praised him for keeping the country safe since Sept. 11, 2001. He deserves that praise, and I'm perfectly happy to defend most of his surveillance, interrogation and counterterrorism policies against his critics.
Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutter compliment.
If they want to criticize me, I don't care; I don't mind. But they must criticize me fairly. Usually, the criticism is not fair. Or the praise, even the praise sometimes is not fair.
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
As a co-writer of the Mumford's songs, I'm always quite insecure about the music - I find it hard to accept any praise or feedback.
I can't think of much higher praise to give a player than to say, 'This point guard reminds me of Jason Kidd.'
While I acknowledge that it's not my whiteness that has given me my platform entirely... it's part of the reason I've garnered so much acceptance and praise for being out and nonbinary.
When I review Xerxes' achievements, I praise him, not for having yoked the Hellespont, but for having crossed it. But I can see that Nero will neither sail through the Isthmus nor complete his digging.
As a general rule, I do not think it appropriate for judges to heap either praise or censure upon a legislative measure that comes before them, lest it be thought that their validation, invalidation, or interpretation of it is driven by their desire to expand or constrict what they personally approve or disapprove as a matter of policy.
I'll never praise myself, because I think there's always improvement to be made.
The highest praise is when a kid says, 'This book feels so real; this could have happened at my school.'
Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.
I danced for a while, and I knew I could sing, so I just began singing in a praise band at church and doing musical theater and jazz vocal performance in school. One didn't really lead to another; I was just always interested in the performance arts.
In Europe, more than in the United States, worldly people, faced with my Indian skin, reflexively laud my 'ancient,' 'beautiful' origins, which is heartier praise than Cleveland usually gets from Europeans.
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