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Praise doesn't mean anything to me. I don't judge myself.

I thought acknowledging praise meant you were arrogant, but I've learned that knowing your strengths enables you to make use of them.

The important thing to me is that I'm not driven by people's praise and I'm not slowed down by people's criticism. I'm just trying to work at the highest level I can.

Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.

It's always embarrassing when somebody does something praiseworthy of you.

It's flattering to people who stop you and say that you've helped them and all. But, again, you know, you've got to stay humble because as quick as you came up, you can come down.

I've been enormously fortunate. People say, 'How do you feel about your reputation?' My real belief is that I have exactly the reputation I deserve... on the whole, I feel comfortable with myself.

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.