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Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - and we will make the goal.
Robert Collier
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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
Will Durant
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I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.


Noel Coward
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Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise.


Mary Kay Ash
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You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.


John Wooden
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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.
Billy Joel
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If leaders in the space program had at its beginning in the 1940s, pointed out the benefits to people on earth rather than emphasizing the search for proof of evolution in space, the program would have saved $100 billion in tax money and achieved greater results.
Walter Lang
Most philanthropists would still rather donate to elite schools, concert halls or religious groups than help the poor or sick.
Noreena Hertz
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Most of us really aren't horribly unique. There are 6 billion of us. Put 'em all in one room and very few would stand out as individuals. So maybe we ought to think of worth in terms of our ability to get along as a part of nature, rather than being the lords over nature.
Herbert Simon
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And how is clarity to be achieved? Mainly by taking trouble and by writing to serve people rather than to impress them.
F. L. Lucas
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Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.
William Penn
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Most of the films I've done were ruined in the postproduction, not during filming.


Chevy Chase
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According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the work itself praises and criticizes the master, and therefore I leave to everyone his own value.
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
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I'd rather experiment than follow the same formula. I'm a curious person. It's gotten me into trouble, but I say, 'Why not? Let's try it.'
Eve
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Vietnamese food has probably been saved from the mass market because most people never master the sauces and condiments that must be added to the food, at the table, for its glories to become apparent. It's too much trouble, and a lot of people don't like asking for help, especially if the interaction involves some linguistic awkwardness.
Tyler Cowen
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Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.


Charles Caleb Colton
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I would rather be right than President.


Henry Clay
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I suspect that even most conservatives would prefer to live in the kind of world conjured up in the liberals' imagination rather than in the kind of world we are in fact stuck with.
Thomas Sowell
I'm part of the mushball middle. I consider 'confused' the majority position because, thankfully, most people would rather be uncertain some of the time than 100% positive all the time - even when they're wrong.
Al Franken