Asghar Farhadi Quotes

Praise your children more than you correct them. Praise them for even their smallest achievement.

There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause.

To say, 'well done' to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge.

By patting somebody on the back, a boy or a girl, a professional dancer, male, female, it really makes people feel good and I know it certainly made me feel good.

Praise is like sunlight to the warm human spirit; we cannot flower and grow without it. And yet, while most of us are only too ready to apply to others the cold wind of criticism, we are somehow reluctant to give our fellow the warm sunshine of praise.

I suppose if it has a practical purpose, I appreciate a pat on the back. I suppose it's rewarding, ultimately.

Ballplayers, like everyone else, like to get told they did something right.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

One should use praise to recognize what one is not.

I like the big ups. I'm into the big ups.

I enjoy being recognized whatever environment I'm in.

People often say, 'I don't need recognition,' and the truth is they are right. We don't need it. But like healthy food and exercise, life is a whole lot better with it.

I compliment people when I see something I really like and tell them, 'That was good. Keep doing what you're doing.' That's as much as advice as you will get out of me.

I am really thankful towards those who appreciate my work and who encourage me.

It's hard for some parents to give their children compliments.

It's nice to have a lot of people supportive of what I'm doing.

I believe that you should praise people whenever you can; it causes them to respond as a thirsty plant responds to water.

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.

Don't forget, a person's greatest emotional need is to feel appreciated.

Being snubbed is not always a bad thing at awards shows because you end up getting a lot of people coming up to you and telling you how great you are.

You may be liberal in your praise where praise is due: it costs nothing; it encourages much.

A little praise goes a great ways.

We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.

Mass appreciation doesn't always equate to something good.

I guess other people's compliments motivate you.