"When I was praised I lost my..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A man must be in sympathy with society around him, or else, not wish to be in sympathy with it. If neither of these two, he must be wretched.”

“A man is reputed to have thought and eloquence; he cannot, for all that, say a word to his cousin or his uncle. They accuse his silence with as much reason as they would blame the insignificance of a dial in the shade. In the sun it will mark the hour. Among those who enjoy his thought, he will regain his tongue.”

“We are not free to use today, or to promise tomorrow, because we are already mortgaged to yesterday.”

“I listened for the echo, and I heard only praise —”

“Wise people prefer to benefit from constructive criticism rather than be ruined by false praise”

“Blame-all and Praise-all are two blockheads.”

“All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.”

“The two terrors that discourage creativity and creative living are fear of public opinion and undue reverence for one's own consistency.”

“A truly good book is something as wildly natural and primitive, mysterious and marvelous, ambrosial and fertile as a fungus or a lichen.”