Chris Smalling Quotes

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

Ballplayers, like everyone else, like to get told they did something right.

By patting somebody on the back, a boy or a girl, a professional dancer, male, female, it really makes people feel good and I know it certainly made me feel good.

I'm not a player who needs telling every day in training 'you're brilliant, you're this, you're that'... but it's always nice to hear comments from the manager and people around that you're doing well.

I compliment people when I see something I really like and tell them, 'That was good. Keep doing what you're doing.' That's as much as advice as you will get out of me.

It's nice to have a lot of people supportive of what I'm doing.

It's always nice to get good feedback, and a bit of encouragement can go a long way.

Randy said I could call him for anything, Paula said that she loved me and said how much of a star I was. Simon was like, keep up the good work and I'll have nothing to worry about.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

For the most part, I meet people who are like 'I really like your work. I'm watching your career. I want to see you do well. Keep doing what you do.' I get that so much, and it's so reassuring. I often wish that so many people, who just work normal jobs, could get a pat on the back as much as I do, because it's very complimentary.

I like the big ups. I'm into the big ups.

I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.

The cost of praising someone is nil - but every psychological study shows the payoff is huge.

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job!

I think every human being in the world appreciates being encouraged and acknowledged.

It's always a pleasure to have a manager give you compliments.

There will always be people who think that money and benefits and even just having a job should be thanks enough. There are also those that think they do a great job without anyone having to thank them. But study after study has shown that no one is immune from the motivating effects of acknowledgement and thanks.

It's hard for some parents to give their children compliments.

I believe that you should praise people whenever you can; it causes them to respond as a thirsty plant responds to water.

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.

I think girls in general need to be more complimentary... It just makes people feel better.

You may be liberal in your praise where praise is due: it costs nothing; it encourages much.

A little praise goes a great ways.

I am not always happy with the compliments Estonia has received.