Expressions of disapproval are on a level of vulgarity that cannot be tolerated. The way to express disapproval is to do without applause.
We don't laugh because we're happy - we're happy because we laugh.
What you applaud you encourage, but beware what you celebrate.
When you're succeeding, and you're doing something right... As I've got haters, I know I'm doing something right.
When a director can give you a word that allows you to feel less tense about yourself, to make you feel like you indeed are good enough before you even get to the work, you can't ask for anything more than that.
I read the script for Wonder Boys, and I said that was almost perfect, it was so classy, cool and funny. It's a really specific thing. We stuck to it, it turned out good and a lot of people liked it.
A lot of vets like 'Good Morning Vietnam' - I get great letters from guys.
It's nice to have a lot of people supportive of what I'm doing.
Once I did bad and that I heard ever. Twice I did good, but that I heard never.
You did good Roza. Very good. Now sleep.
Kindness comes back like a boomerang to those who are kind. Perhaps, its return takes years. Perhaps, the kindness returns from a different direction than that which we sent out kindness. But it will return. It is never lost.
A good, sympathetic review is always a wonderful surprise.
I've just got to keep doing what I'm doing, because from all the compliments I've received so far, it sounds like I'm on the right track.
When I go out and I see the genuine appreciation from the people, that's a big thing for me.
Every action generates a force of energy that returns to us in kind.
Working with a good artiste is always a pleasure. If you get a reaction from your co-star, then you get the space to perform well.
Pain shared is pain lessened; joy shared is joy increased. Thus do we refute entropy.
So many people have been so supportive of my music, my music videos, everything all around.
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.
Who really benefits from discouragement? More often than not, encouragement is exactly what is needed.
I have so many people out there that celebrate with me when they know that I'm happy. And they hate it when they know that I'm suffering because someone has hurt me.
I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among men the greatest asset I possess. The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement.
In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own successes - a virtuous cycle of change.
I think you need to love giving compliments as much as you love receiving them.
I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.
