Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs.

My first book, 'In Praise of Slowness,' examines how the world got stuck in fast-forward and chronicles a global trend towards putting on the brakes. That trend is called the Slow movement. 'Slow' in this context does not mean doing everything at a snail's pace. It means doing everything at the right speed.

Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.

No sensible author wants anything but praise.

Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all thanks!

When a book of mine comes out, I instantly go hunting the net, not for praise, but for criticism, because that's how you learn, from people who don't have to be polite to you.

I don't get carried away by any praise; I know I have miles to go.

I was raised with Eddie Fisher as a father and Connie Stevens as a mother.

I was raised on Bruce Lee.

We actors have a big problem. We have a lot of insecurity and we are fragile. We surround ourselves with people who praise our ego and lie to us... till that moment you realise that these people are not helping you get ahead.

I will only praise someone who can't take anything away from me.

You tend to feel very hurt when people attack you and feel indifferent when you get praise. You think, 'Of course they like it. They should like it.'

Receiving praise from Cristiano Ronaldo is a joy.

But no one can praise Roosevelt for doing this and then insist that he restored our traditional political and economic systems to their former vitality.

I was raised that emotion was a good thing.

I do not raise brats!

The crowds, the praise, and the power are neither just nor unjust in themselves. As they are typically used in the schools, they represent the values of social order and of individual competitive achievement.

I feel like you have to use the platform you're given to voice concerns and also to praise things when they need to be praised.

Libraries raised me.

Praise and criticism seem to me to operate exactly on the same level. If you get a great review, it's really thrilling for about ten minutes. If you get a bad review, it's really crushing for ten minutes. Either way, you go on.