Frank Gore Quotes

I don't want people kissing my butt. If I had a bad show and I know it, don't tell me I had a good show. I hate that. I guess because I'm 17, people think I don't see stuff like that.

According to fathers, their kids are always good.

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

You can get through your whole day only around people who will tell you that you're wonderful. But pretty soon they're going to have to be lying about that.

There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering.

You can stroke people with words.

The more people say nice things about me, the more I feel it's false.

If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.

Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor.

Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutter compliment.

Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.

More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice.

I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.

As for singing, my parents say I have a good voice, but then again, they have to say that.

Comparing oneself with one's fellow writers is a bad idea. I would not review a fellow writer unless I had something terribly positive to say.

When you see a woman who can go nowhere without a staff of admirers, it is not so much because they think she is beautiful, it is because she has told them they are handsome.

All flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.

Praise makes good men better and bad men worse.

People ask ... for criticism, but they only want praise.

By bringing shame to a person, how could one expect to make him a better man?

It is a grand thing to get advice and criticism of people who really want to make more useful such things as any of us poor scribes write for the general public. There is just one bit of cheer, however, no matter how much we improve, everyone will never be pleased and therefore we may hope that everyone will never be displeased either.

It's nice to compliment people on what they're wearing, but don't make insincere compliments.

To pay attention to flattery or criticism is a waste of time for artists.

If you want to influence people, you want them to accept your suggestions, you don't say, 'You don't know how to use the English language,' or 'How could you make that argument?' It will be welcomed much more if you have a gentle touch than if you are aggressive.

I'm as proud as the next guy, but I've always been a little skeptical of the daddies who walk around talking about what great athletes their kids are.