Donna Tartt Quotes

I like when people talk negative.

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

Criticism is futile because it puts a person on the defensive and usually makes them strive to justify themselves. Criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person's precious pride, hurts their sense of importance, and arouses resentment.

Wanted: More Praise I cannot help believing that the world will be a better and a happier place when people are praised more and blamed less; when we utter in their hearing the good we think and also gently intimate the criticisms we hope may be of service. For the world grows smaller every day. It will be but a family circle after a while.

Praise is sunshine; it warms, it inspires, it promotes growth; blame and rebuke are rain and hail; they beat down and bedraggle, even though they may at times be necessary.

Sir, there is no end of negative criticism.

There is rampant among us a spirit of criticism. Men and women who carry heavy responsibility do not need criticism, they need encouragement.

What sells more, criticism or compliments? What do people like more? They enjoy blood.

All players want nice things to be said and written about them and you have to take the reverse in equal measure.

There are always going to be your supporters, and then there are going to be haters. I kind of laugh at them.

I am not an actor who enjoys negative comments on other heroes.

If anyone says you are bad, this mean he wants you to be good, and I am here to be good, and I want to be good. If they say I have done bad, then they should also give me a chance to change myself for good.

When you receive criticism, you should take it in your side, but I've received love more than anything else, and that's what motivates me and keeps me going.

You don't need to be criticised to play well or things like that.

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.

I was surrounded by a bunch of friends who made music, and at the time, I thought they were good. They used to tell me I was really bad, but it ended being up the opposite.

I want to hear good things. I don't want to hear any negative things about me. It makes me look bad. It makes me feel bad. It makes my family look bad.

A child who can't read isn't going to get better because you told him he was bad.

Praise little, dispraise less.

Always praise 'em before you hit 'em.

Your criticism may be worse than the conduct you are trying to correct.

Coach Graham rode you pretty hard, didn't he?" he said. I could barely muster a "yeah." That's a good thing," the assistant told me. When you're screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore, it means they've given up on you.

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

I don't want to be the one to tell somebody, You will not make it, even though I know that the majority of those who come to me with their manuscripts are not really good enough.

Most of the criticism I get is that I am too positive and too hopeful... in my words, I don't beat people down enough.