A Quote by Don Meyer

Shout praise and whisper criticism.

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Criticism Praise Shout Whisper

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Don Meyer
American - Coach
December 16, 1944 - May 18, 2014

The way we respond to criticism pretty much depends on the way we respond to praise. If praise humbles us, then criticism will build us up. But if praise inflates us, then criticism will crush us; and both responses lead to our defeat.

Warren W. Wiersbe

My words are a whisper, your deafness a shout.

Jethro Tull

The novel is more of a whisper, whereas the stage is a shout.

Robert Holman

Criticism? An artist wants praise. Praise.

Virginia Woolf

It is the secret life that sustains me now, and as I reach the top of that bridge I say it in a whisper, I say it as a prayer, as regret, and as praise. I can't tell you why I do it or what it means, but each night when I drive toward my southern home and my southern life, I whisper these words: 'Lowenstein, Lowenstein.

Pat Conroy

Neither praise or blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe, and honestly to award. These are the true aims and duties of criticism.

William Gilmore Simms

Neither praise nor blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe and honestly to award - these are the true aims and duties of criticism.

William Gilmore Simms

I like to praise and reward in a loud voice and to scold in a whisper.

Catherine the Great

Those who cannot hear an angry shout may strain to hear a whisper.

Leonard Nimoy

In his head, his mother said, 'People shout when they don’t have the vocabulary to whisper'.

Maggie Stiefvater

I suspect that most authors don't really want criticism, not even constructive criticism. They want straight-out, unabashed, unashamed, fulsome, informed, naked praise, arriving by the shipload every fifteen minutes or so.

Neil Gaiman

I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me.

Billy Joel

Criticism sometimes is really praise, and praise sometimes slander.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

No one has ever touched me like you do. You’re like a whisper. Gentle, soft. Soothing. In my world, the people only shout and scream. But you… you’re my haven. “ … “God, you’re good

Sherrilyn Kenyon

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.

Dale Carnegie

If they want to criticize me, I don't care; I don't mind. But they must criticize me fairly. Usually, the criticism is not fair. Or the praise, even the praise sometimes is not fair.

Bhumibol Adulyadej

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