“ There is a sort of love whose very excessiveness prevents the lover's being jealous. Francois De La Rochefoucauld Author
“ Praise and criticism seem to me to operate exactly on the same level. If you get a great review, it's really thrilling for about ten minutes. If you get a bad review, it's really crushing for ten minutes. Either way, you go on. Ann Patchett Author
“ Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale. Baron De Montesquieu Author
“ Praise works best at the start, before the miracle, before the breakthrough, before the restoration. Brian Houston Pastor
“ The human mind is generally far more eager to praise or dispraise than it is to describe and define. C. S. Lewis Novelist
“ Praising children’s intelligence harms their motivation and it harms their performance. Carol S. Dweck Professor