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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
I take praise as not just a reward and a result but also as the beginning of a new process.
Taking an interest in what others are thinking and doing is often a much more powerful form of encouragement than praise.
I thought acknowledging praise meant you were arrogant, but I've learned that knowing your strengths enables you to make use of them.
Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child.
So, to praise others for their virtues can but encourage one's own efforts.
I don't know that praise is always a good thing.
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!
Praise is nothing that accumulates. Praise is a sequence, especially if you've toiled for a long time. Praise does not pile up. So in a way, you can't get too much. I don't consider it to be a quantity that you can measure by volume.
Praise doesn't mean anything to me. I don't judge myself.