acknowledgment of effort Quotes

There is nothing else that so kills the ambitions of a person as criticisms from superiors. I never criticize anyone. I believe in giving a person incentive to work. So I am anxious to praise but loath to find fault. . . . I have yet to find a person, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism.

I would like to say thank you on behalf of the group and ourselves and I hope we’ve passed the audition.

Anyone who does anything useful will not go unpaid.

I often saw weary little women coming to the table after most exhausting labors, and large, bumptious husbands spreading out their hands and thanking the Lord for the meals that the dear women had prepared, as if the whole came down like manna from heaven. So I preached a sermon in the blessing I gave. You will notice that it has three heresies in it: Heavenly Father and Mother, make us thankful for all the blessings of this life, and make us ever mindful of the patient hands that oft in weariness spread our tables and prepare our daily food. For humanity's sake, Amen.

I'm incredibly proud to have been nominated in the past and it really means a lot to me because I do work very hard when I'm making a film and I do really do absolutely give my all. To get that kind of pat on the back, it's really amazing and also never something that I anticipated would possibly happen to me, ever. So I am very, very proud to have been there before. And, you know, the nice thing about nominations is that, same as awards, no one can actually take them away from you and I'm proud of that.

Praise is a powerful people-builder. Catch individuals doing something right.

Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive.

You do good work for a long-enough time, I believed, and you'd get noticed.

I've always found credit isn't just something you take - it's something people give you when they see how hard you're working.

The bad news is that ignoring the performance of people is almost as bad as shredding their effort in front of their eyes. Ignoring gets you a whole way out there. The good news is that by simply looking at something that somebody has done, scanning it and saying "Uh huh," that seems to be quite sufficient to dramatically improve people's motivations.

I really appreciate what the writers are doing and respect everything that they do. So, I was satisfied, for sure.

Never let an opportunity pass to give a well-deserved compliment.

You always got to be happy when somebody likes what you do. It's stupid not to be happy.

I think it's always important to give immediate positive reinforcement.

Give me some credit for the hell I've paid.