A Quote by Mason Cooley

We are prepared for insults, but compliments leave us baffled.

Mason Cooley

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Baffled Compliments Insults Leave Prepared Us

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Mason Cooley
American - Writer
1927 - 2002

Remember compliments you receive. Forget the insults. If you succeed in doing this, tell me how.

Mary Schmich

Even death after a long illness is without warning. The moment you had prepared for so carefully took you by storm. The troops broke through the window and snatched the body and the body is gone. ... Death reduces us to the baffled logic of a small child. If yesterday why not today?

Jeanette Winterson

Don't waste your time on jealousy; sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long, and in the end, it's only with yourself. Remember compliments you receive, forget the insults; if you succeed in doing this, tell me how.

Mary Schmich

Is is difficult to be angry with a gentleman who pays you compliments, even impertinent compliments. Especially impertinent compliments.

Barbara Mertz

As an adult I generally feel this pressure to be thin, not from men, but from other women. As a silent or not-so-silent competition, a constant monitoring of who's thinner, comments about it - either compliments or veiled insults doesn't matter - it always drives me nuts.

Kate Christensen

You don't take insults. You leave them with the insulter.

Milton H. Erickson

I'll leave you with one that I have hanging on my office wall, compliments of Nike: Impossible is nothing.

Muhammad Ali

It's a lifelong failing: she has never been prepared. But how can you have a sense of wonder if you're prepared for everything? Prepared for the sunset. Prepared for the moonrise. Prepared for the ice storm. What a flat existence that would be.

Margaret Atwood

Give me the compliments. I love compliments. I was born modest, but it wore off.

Val Kilmer

I'm a Libra. If someone compliments me, I'll say something nice to them. I like to give out compliments.

Amber Rose

Whatever insults my State insults me.

Preston Brooks

Most people don't know how to take compliments. That's the biggest problem in America - we're hesitant to give compliments and embarrassed at getting them.

Letitia Baldrige

God allows and at times causes us to go through the kinds of circumstances that strip away all falsehood and leave us with our real selves. God's ultimate intent is not to leave us faithless, but to leave us faith-full. There are few things as exhilarating as going through the fire and finding that you had the resilience to make it through. All of us wonder at times whether we have what it takes. God wants to bring us to a place where we have no doubt of the work He has done within us.

Erwin McManus

The only thing I would advise young actors to do is prepare for the amount of adversity that you're going to come in contact with by choosing to be an actor because before you actually "made it" or get the skills, people are all not going to take you seriously, and many people will try to discourage you from it. Don't take any of their advice. Do it, and do it and do it. Remember the compliments. Forget the insults.