A Quote by Heinrich Heine

He only profits from praise who values criticism.

Heinrich Heine

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Criticism Only Praise Profits Values

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Heinrich Heine
German - Poet
December 13, 1797 - February 17, 1856

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

I find that when you lead with vision and values, engaging employees and showing them that values are just as important as profits, everyone comes on board. And not only do they come on board, but they connect to their own individual creativity.

Shari Arison

People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

People who ask for your criticism want only praise.

W. Somerset Maugham

If only people fought undeserved praise as much as they do unfair criticism.

Mardy Grothe

Criticism? An artist wants praise. Praise.

Virginia Woolf

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

Every man needs a blind eye and a deaf ear, so when people applaud, you'll only hear half of it, and when people salute, you'll only see part of it. Believe only half the praise and half the criticism.

Charles Spurgeon

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 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

Believe only half of the praise and half of the criticism.

Charles Spurgeon

People blush at praise--not only praise of their bodies, but praise of anything that is theirs.

C. S. Lewis

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.