A Quote by Zig Ziglar

If you're sincere, praise is effective. If you're insincere, it's manipulative.

Zig Ziglar

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Effective Insincere Manipulative Praise Sincere

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Zig Ziglar
American - Author
November 6, 1926 - November 28, 2012

Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise.

Bill Walsh

Everyone says he's sincere, but everyone isn't sincere. If everyone was sincere who says he's sincere there wouldn't be half so many insincere ones in the world and there would be lots, lots, lots more really sincere ones!

Tennessee Williams

I try to ONLY ridicule people who's efforts are sincere. Very little trouble has been caused in the world by insincere efforts. An occasional seduction maybe. There were very few insincere Stalinists or Nazis.

P. J. O'Rourke

An insincere critic of a sincere person never wins.

Criss Jami

I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism.

Plautus

Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutter compliment.

Bill F. Walsh

Sincerity doesn't mean anything. A person can be sincere and be more destructive than a person who is insincere.

Edward Albee

Sincerity is all that counts. It's a widespread modern heresy. Think again. Bolsheviks are sincere. Fascists are sincere. Lunatics are sincere. People who believe the earth is flat are sincere. They can't all be right. Better make certain that you've got something to be sincere about and with.

Tom Driberg

I appreciate a book intended to be judged by its cover. The insincere readers are often weeded out while the sincere readers remain curious.

Criss Jami

A sincere friend conceals all your deformities, deceives and convince others that you are extremely perfect, the insincere will tell the truth of destruction, leave you open for others to glare and laugh.

Michael Bassey

It is my drawback that I am not manipulative and this trait doesn't work in the industry. People in the industry are very manipulative. For me, I will say it if I don't like, and I don't know how to butter people. Even Salman Khan is like that, he is very straightforward and not manipulative at all.

Daisy Shah

To be an effective leader, you have to have a manipulative streak - you have to figure out the people working for you and give each tasks that will take advantage of his strength.

Norman Schwarzkopf

People are very sincere in their praise, and you can't take it lightly.

Joan Jett

We love a good, hyped sound, but when it starts to sound insincere, that's when I lose interest. I hope that our music, even if it sounds polished, doesn't sound insincere.