Kit Reed Quotes

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy.

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.

The shame that arises from praise which we do not deserve often makes us do things we should otherwise never have attempted.

Praise without merit is more harmful than unearned criticism.

False praise is worse than no praise.

Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.

If I were the blushing kind, I would blush to be called a hero.

I don't deal well with admiration if it's for something I haven't done. Other than exist.

I think some parents fall into a trap, teaching their kids that everything is always perfect and everyone is always a winner.

I hate it when people tell you you're good when you know that you're not.

There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.

We are deeply conditioned against unconditionality because we've been told in a thousand different ways that accomplishment always precedes acceptance, that achievement always precedes approval.

I don't like being a celebrity, really... Some people get greater praise than they deserve because they have had exposure in the media. I don't think I agree with that at all.

… a pygmy who should not be set on a pedestal

It is an honor that I have neither earned nor deserved

A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him

I was not necessarily the best student. I was not necessarily the favourite kid. I wasn't necessarily the most responsible or the most ambitious, and suddenly, when you get given celebrity, you get anointed with all these lovely qualities that you don't have, necessarily, but everyone assumes you must because you're successful.

Attributing to anything or anyone more good than God has attributed to them is not a positive move, nor does it mean that you have done them any good. A single grain of truth is preferable to a bumper harvest of false imaginings.

Most people to whom a statue has been erected are undeserving.

Do me a favor and don't make me out to be no hero.

Pretty good. Pretttttttty, pretttttttttty, pretttttty good.

I get a lot of credit I don't deserve.

I'd swear to God, if I were a piano player or an actor or something and all those dopes thought I was terrific, I'd hate it. I wouldn't even want them to clap for me. People always clap for the wrong things. If I were a piano player, I'd play it in the goddam closet.