It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It is wonderful to have someone praise you, to be desired.
We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves.
When you're blessed, you've got to be sensitive to people that don't have and need to depend on somebody else to eat.
You cannot have adoration without being criticized.
Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat.
According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the work itself praises and criticizes the master, and therefore I leave to everyone his own value.
I thought acknowledging praise meant you were arrogant, but I've learned that knowing your strengths enables you to make use of them.
The instinct to worship is hardly less strong than the instinct to eat.
I will only praise someone who can't take anything away from me.
For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another!