The nature of how we are as human beings is that we're much more interested in being critical rather than praising something.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
Being critical is not something I like to do. I like to appreciate and inspire.
Taking an interest in what others are thinking and doing is often a much more powerful form of encouragement than praise.
We think of ourselves as our titles or our jobs or our position in a family. We depend on being praised by others. But something happens when that praise is undermined.
Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.
Usually we praise only to be praised.
I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me.
Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose.
People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
I prefer to praise people and the world rather than criticize them and it.