A Quote by Jean Paul

It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.

Jean Paul

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Jean Paul
German - Author
March 21, 1763 - November 14, 1825

It is easier and handier for men to flatter than to praise.

Jean Paul

It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.

William Osler

You must ingratiate yourself with those who can help you. Flatter them to their faces. Praise them to others who will carry your words back to them.

Chin-Ning Chu

Bureaucracies temporarily suspend the Second Law of Thermodynamics. In a bureaucracy, it's easier to make a process more complex than to make it simpler, and easier to create a new burden than kill an old one.

Clay Shirky

The more people you run into, the greater your exposure, the easier it is to understand and empathize with other people. So if you are living in a much smaller ecosystem, it's probably easier to have simpler feelings.

James Scott

I don't like writing for myself to sing. I prefer to have other people's voices to dispose of in some way that they'll like or not like or flatter them or not flatter them. It's fun.

Matthew Friedberger

We all pine for a time in life when things were simpler. Even when they weren't necessarily simpler, hindsight makes them look a lot simpler. The reality of it was that it wasn't.

Ben Gibbard

Taxes should be lower, flatter, and simpler, in that order.

David Boaz

Let me tell you how the French seduce you. They are the most bloody seductive people on Earth. They are charming, they are well-mannered and they praise and flatter you.

Anita Roddick

Praise your children more than you correct them. Praise them for even their smallest achievement.

Ezra Taft Benson

It is easy to flatter; it is harder to praise.

Jean Paul

Be quick to praise people. People like to praise those who praise them.

Bernard Baruch

Having a lower tax, simpler, fairer, flatter tax system is something that can drive growth.

Rishi Sunak

The poet sees better than other mortals. I do not see things as they are, but according to my own subjective impression, and this makes life easier and simpler.

Robert Schumann

Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.

William Arthur Ward

To drown a river beneath its own impounded water, by damming, is to kill what it was and to settle for something else. When the damming happens without good reason . . . then it's a tragedy of diminishment for the whole planet, a loss of one more wild thing, leaving Earth just a little flatter and tamer and simpler and uglier than before.

David Quammen

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