A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him
Praise without merit is more harmful than unearned criticism.
Stupid criticism and still more stupid praise.
Attributing to anything or anyone more good than God has attributed to them is not a positive move, nor does it mean that you have done them any good. A single grain of truth is preferable to a bumper harvest of false imaginings.
Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.
If they want to criticize me, I don't care; I don't mind. But they must criticize me fairly. Usually, the criticism is not fair. Or the praise, even the praise sometimes is not fair.
People are so quick to say someone is a fantastic player and deserves to win the Ballon d'Or after just one good year. I disagree with that.
A single overstatement, wherever or however it occurs, diminishes the whole, and a carefree superlative has the power to destroy, for the reader, the object of the writer's enthusiasm.
I'm just used to working harder than everybody and other people taking the credit.
The narrator of a documentary often comes in at the last minute and takes some of the glory they don't deserve.
Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid.
However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him.
We always expect tremendous criticism. It is my role to be the lightning rod ... to attract the attacks against the organization for our work, and that is a difficult role. On the other hand, I get undue credit.
Constant, indiscriminate approval devalues because it is so predictable.
People always go on about me being an inspiration, which is nice. But it's an unrealistic pedestal to be put on. There are other people out there who have had things happen to them, not just me.
I don't think actors need to go on pedestals. I don't buy it.
Blame-all and Praise-all are two blockheads.
I hate the hype. When 50 Cent came out, people were saying that he was the best rapper alive: "Oh, he got shot nine times, he's better than Tupac, he's better than Biggie." That was all hype.
Sometimes when you're praised about something, sometimes it's deserved, and sometimes it's not deserved. Same thing with criticism. Sometimes the criticism is deserved, and sometimes it's not deserved.
If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.
Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.
My friends and family have been so well trained that they know I really mean it when I say that I don't care if the review is good, because that can be as dangerous as when it's bad. It's less demoralizing, but it can be just as confusing.
