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I don't know that praise is always a good thing.

Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child.

We increase whatever we praise. The whole creation responds to praise, and is glad.

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.

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

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.

The work must be its own reward. I got that early on. And I'm blessed by meeting my own standards of excellence.

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.