#praising

To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years. ↗

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

#amount #coincides #content #entire #exactly

Teachers started recognizing me and praising me for being smart in science and that made me want to be even smarter in science! ↗

— Steve Wozniak

#being smart #even #made #me #praising

Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever. ↗

— George Orwell

#books #constantly #exceptionally #exhausting #feeling

Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due. ↗

— Sydney Smith

#any #due #duties #hardly #i

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

— Billy Sunday

#even #first #frighten #her #praising

Even if God never did another good thing in our lives, we could spend the rest of this life praising Him for what He has already done. ↗

— Dillon Burroughs

#faith

Praising the Lord and passing the ammunition are mutually exclusive ideas. ↗

— Phil Donahue

#exclusive #ideas #lord #mutually #mutually exclusive

To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say. ↗

— Will Durant

#always #clever #dishonest #good #good thing

Baseball is a tongue-tied kid from Georgia growing up to be an announcer and praising the Lord for showing him the way to Cooperstown. This is a game for America. Still a game for America, this baseball! ↗

— Ernie Harwell

#announcer #baseball #game #georgia #growing

Political pandering comes in all shapes and sizes, but every four years the presidential primary bring us in contact with its purest form - praising ethanol subsidies amid the corn fields of Iowa. ↗

— John Sununu

#bring #comes #contact #corn #ethanol