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A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.
Alec Waugh, On Doing What One Li
I have always said that if I were a rich man I would employ a profesional praiser.
Osbert Sitwell, Wisdom
He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.
Karl Kraus
Always when I see a man fond of praise I always think it is because he is an affectionate man craving for affection.
J. B. Yeats, Letters to His Son,
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes real good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games.
Paul William "Bear" Bryant
We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dream life.
David Mamet
Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
Gore Vidal
Usually we praise only to be praised.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Admiration; is our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
Ambrose Bierce
Hunger is never delicate; they who are seldom gorged to the full with praise may be safely fed with gross compliments, for the appetite must be satisfied before it is disgusted.
Samuel Johnson
O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?
William Cowper
It takes so little to make people happy. Just a touch, If we know how to give it, just a word fitly spoken, a slight readjustment of some bolt or pin or bearing in the delicate machinery of a soul.
Frank Crane
If you treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.
Johann von Goethe
Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.
Will Rogers
I like to hear a man talk about himself because then I never hear anything, but good.
The advantage of doing one's praising to oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
Samuel Butler
Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, Make me feel important. Never forget this message when working with people.
Mary Kay Ash
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.
Proverb
Applause is a receipt, not a bill.
Artur Schnabel
Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
Edmund Burke
