Marvin J. Ashton Quotes

Reading nice stuff about you is lovely, but I know it's going to be soul-destroying when you do something that everyone is tearing apart.

Players like people saying good things about them and, of course, no one is ever wrong when they do that, but they always are when they say bad stuff.

Always praise 'em before you hit 'em.

As for myself, I met with as much success as I ever could have wanted. In other words, I was enthusiastically run-down by every critic of the period.

I'm not a natural criticizer - I prefer to like and praise and so on.

Criticism can never instruct or benefit you. Its chief effect is that of a telegram with dubious news. Praise leaves no glow behind, for it is a writer's habit to remember nothing good of himself. I have usually forgotten those who have admired my work, and seldom anyone who disliked it. Obviously, this is because praise is never enough and censure always too much.

Lavish praise on people and people will flourish; criticize people and they'll shrivel up.

Do not seek praise. Seek criticism.

Many people know how to criticize, but few know how to praise.

Spend more time smiling than frowning and more time praising than criticizing.

There is nothing else that so kills the ambitions of a person as criticisms from superiors. I never criticize anyone...If I like anything, I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise.

Often our self-esteem is bruised by criticism.

How little praise warms out of a man the good that is in him, as the sneer of contempt which he feels is unjust chill the ardor to excel.

Praise is more obtrusive than a reproach.

People who ask for your criticism want only praise.

Reproach is usually honest, which is more than can be said of praise.

Cut word lines — Cut music lines — Smash the control images — Smash the control machine — Burn the books — Kill the priests — Kill! Kill! Kill!

Criticism will plant FEAR in the human heart, or resentment, but it will not build love or affection.

Criticism is the forerunner of divorce, the cultivator of rebellion, sometimes an agent that leads to failure.

If you're criticized then you can use it as an experience. Compliments, you can't use.

Stupid criticism and still more stupid praise.

Be slow to criticize. And fast to APPRECIATE

The villain's censure is extorted praise.

There is a sad tendency in our world today for persons to cut one another down. Did you ever realize that it does not take very much in the way of brainpower to make remarks that may wound another? Try the opposite of that. Try handing out compliments.

You must not pay a person a compliment, and then straightway follow it with a criticism.