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• Remember that unjust critisism is often a disquised compliment.

  Dale Carnegie

  Success, Giving Up, Fear

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• A quality person is someone with integrity. To be worthy of the highest trust is a noble attribute and compliment. You will need to maintain confidences. Certainly it is greater to be trusted than loved. Truly happy persons will always be totally honest in their dealings with their fellowman.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Integrity, Compliments You, Quality

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• There have been a few players described as the new George Best over the years, but this is the first time its been a compliment to me.

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Inspirational, Soccer, Sports

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• Art critic! Is that a profession? When I think we are stupid enough, we painters, to solicit those people's compliments and to put ourselves into their hands! What shame! Should we even accept that they talk about our work?

  Edgar Degas

  Art, Stupid, Thinking

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• The absolute heart of loyalty is to value those people who tell you the truth, not just those people who tell you what you want to hear. In fact, you should value them most. Because they have paid you the compliment of leveling with you and assuming you can handle it.

  Pat Summitt

  Inspirational, Loyalty, Truth

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.48, Crown Business

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• Accepting what others see as your strengths is crucial to your continued growth. Compliments are a gift. They are an opportunity for you and another person to connect in a powerful, positive way. How did you handle the last compliment directed at you? Did you accept it?

  Rhonda Britten

  Powerful, Opportunity, Growth

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• The greatest compliment that I know how to pay another photographer is to say, 'I never would have made that photograph myself. I'm sure glad you did.' You hope along the way that maybe, once in a while, you do that for someone else.

  John Sexton

  Photography, Pay, Way

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• I feel a huge gratification out of being right. To see my projects connect in a way in which the audience is passionate is a huge compliment. For me it's like, if a person is ambitious enough, they run in a tunnel that doesn't end...And I learn things about myself all the time.

  Curtis Jackson

  Running, Ambitious, Passionate

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I hope to see women thriving and happy, loving what they're doing, and being in control and powerful of what they create. I guess what I would say is, as much as we all love the fashion and the makeup and the glamour, this isn't a beauty pageant. It's about the heart and the drive and the work. Of course, it's lovely to dress up and compliment one another and feel good - but that shouldn't be the very first thing.

  Lady Gaga

  Fashion, Powerful, Heart

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• You can't rock the boat without being told you're off your rocker. Entrepreneurs' greatest asset is their contrarian way of thinking, their tendency to zig when others zag, to go in a new direction. But many people don't give themselves permission to get going for fear that they will be called crazy. I say not only is crazy a compliment, but if you're not called crazy when you start something new, then you're not thinking big enough!

  Linda Rottenberg

  Crazy, Thinking, People

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• In my experience, some of the biggest obstacles to becoming a successful entrepreneur aren't financial or structural - they are internal and psychological. It's important for dreamers to believe in themselves and their ideas, to fend off the skeptics and find others who will share in their dreams. Once you understand that being called "crazy" is a compliment, you realize that you can get beyond other people's opinions and zig when others zag.

  Linda Rottenberg

  Dream, Crazy, Believe

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I'm very aware of the influence I've had, and I'm very pleased with that, because it proves that my work was necessary, that people liked it, and that it was right for its time which is a big compliment. But of course, this means I now have to move on. If more people are doing what I'm doing, I have to evolve. I'm pushed toward a new direction, and I have to let myself be tempted, find out where I can go.

  Ann Demeulemeester

  Moving, Mean, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The West didn't see our real situation, and we were blinded by the compliments coming from the Europeans and Americans.

  Irakli Okruashvili

  Real, West, Situation

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I'm very introverted, so it requires a huge effort for me to put on a smile and extend a hand and accept compliments. I would much rather be insulted than complimented any day.

  Michael Ian Black

  Hands, Effort, Accepting

  "Michael Ian Black on Parenting, Pop Culture and His Worst Christmas Present Ever". Interview with Sarah Thyre, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 16, 2012.

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• When we want to be something other than the thing that God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, will not make us happy...whether we like it or not, God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want. Once more, we are embarrassed by the intolerable compliment, by too much love, not too little.

  C. S. Lewis

  Thinking, Giving, Needs

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• I'll always remember Jean Paul Gaultier, who did a project based on Madonnas, remarking on the images, "Yours are much better." Gaultier is really smart, so it's good getting a compliment from him!

  Miles Aldridge

  Smart, Remember, Really Smart

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm not very good at taking compliments. It's better than getting slapped in the face, I suppose.

  Jeremy Renner

  Faces, Very Good

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• You look so good it hurts sometimes.

  John Mayer

  Hurt, Looks, Sometimes

  Song: Your Body Is A Wonderland, 2001

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• When you touch me, good God.

  James Brown

  Good God, Touch Me

  Song: I Can't Stand Myself

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• The world is grown so full of dissimulation and compliment, that men's words are hardly any signification of their thoughts.

  Richard Steele

  Men, World, Flattery

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.62

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• I'm still spending my working life trying to mine people's souls and now they're complimenting me in reviews on the amount of time I spend in the gym. On the definition of my triceps.

  Jason Isaacs

  People, Soul, Trying

  "Jason Isaacs: 'I like being anonymous'". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. June 19, 2011.

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• I say at the very end of "Winter Journal" that I do dream about my father often. I think I have a tremendous compassion for him, which has grown over the years. A certain kind of pity for him also in that he was so unrealised as a human being, so dogged, and so shut-off from people in many ways. You know, I've been writing another book, and it's another non-fiction autobiographical work, kind of a compliment to "Winter Journal", and it's just finished.

  Paul Auster

  Dream, Father, Book

  Interview with Wayne Gooderham, www.timeout.com.

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• All we need to do is pay attention to ourselves and pay attention when somebody gives you a compliment based on something that you do naturally. Then that lets you know that that's your talent. I mean, talents come in so many different sizes, so many different colors, so many different ways.

  Gabourey Sidibe

  Mean, Color, Giving

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Some have paid me an undeserved compliment by supposing that my Letters were the ripe fruit of many years' study in moral and ascetic theology. They forgot that there is an equally reliable, though less creditable, way of learning how temptation works.

  C. S. Lewis

  Years, Supposing That, Temptation

  C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Screwtape Letters: Annotated Edition”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• I like having the two sports in my life. It is nice to have a change. They are both intense sports, but the balance I have is working for me at the moment and I find they compliment one another.

  Liz Halliday

  Sports, Nice, Two

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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