Overpraise Quotes

For the good, when praised, feel something of disgust, if to excess commended.

Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.

If everyone is special, then no one is. If everyone gets a trophy, trophies become meaningless.

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

American capitalism has been both overpraised and overindicted. It is neither the Plumed Knight nor the monstrous Robber Baron.

I do what I do because I like doing it. I'm well paid for it. I get far too much adulation compared with what it's worth.

Am I the only person in the world who is shocked and amazed at the ongoing flattery of uebergeek Mark Zuckerberg?

You know when someone's over-flattering you in a way. You smile but you can't believe it.

Too much praise makes you feel you must be doing something terribly wrong.

Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.

I drive [Susan Sarandon] nuts. I'm always talking about her being my hero. I'm sure she's probably sick of it.

I'm sick of it when people start to say it: 'Aren't you amazing?' If they start to say it, I hit them.

Hollywood is one place in the world where you can die of encouragement.

It's nice to be recognized, but it's not great to have it too conspicuously recognized, if you see what I mean. Gold records on the wall, or titles after your name, it's just not something... I don't feel that great about it.

I don't have any terrific self-esteem issues but I do sometimes realise I've been too lucky and that I'm over-praised. It makes me nervous. I have this sense of being overrated.

Don't be taken in by the guff that critics are killing the theater. Commonly they sin on the side of enthusiasm. Too often they give their blessing to trash.

Of course, sweetie," his mom said. "We'll be here all day. You just come down whenever you want and we love you and you're so so special, Colin, and you can't possibly let this girl make you think otherwise because you are the most magnificent, brilliant boy-" And right then, the most special, magnificent, brilliant boy bolted into his bathroom and puked his guts out. An explosion, sort of.

Everybody worships me, it's nauseating.

Whenever I have found that I have blundered, or that my work has been imperfected, and when I have been contemptuously criticised, and even when I have been overpraised, so that I have felt mortified, it has been my greatest comfort to say hundreds of times to myself that 'I have worked as hard as I could, and no man can do more than this.'

Calling a young artist 'great' these days can give one the heebie-jeebies: The word has been denatured in the past decade.

Praise is like ambergrease: a little whiff of it, and by snatches, is very agreeable; but when a man holds a whole lump of it to your nose, it is a stink, and strikes you down.

Most children are given far too much praise for their early drawings, so much so that they rarely learn the ability to refine their first crude efforts the way their early attempts at language are corrected.

If you are well known at something else, you get points for doing stuff which lots of other people do, and much more, and they don't get any points at all. You get over-praised, over-credited.

I don't think you can look at my history and say they love me to death in Silicon Valley.

It's embarrassing sometimes, the way actors or musicians sometimes get made untouchable.