"Compliment others on the virtues they have; and they're not half as pleased as being complimented for the ones they don't have."

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Malcolm Forbes

#Half Quotes #Compliment Quotes #Virtue Quotes

“Thus, if a composer wants to produce music that is relevant to his contemporaries, his chief problem is not really musical, though it may seem to him to be so; it is a problem of attitude to contemporary society and culture in relation to the basic human problem of learning to be human.”

Source : John Blacking (1974). “How Musical is Man?”, p.104, University of Washington Press
“Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming.”
“Writing well is at one and the same time good thinking, good feeling, and good expression; it is having wit, soul, and taste, all together.”
“Be happy. It really annoys negative people.”

Source : Twitter post from Jan 5, 2013
“You can't give up! If you give up, you're like everybody else.”

Source : "Tennis great Chris Evert finds new life on the court" by Liz Clarke, www.washingtonpost.com. January 18, 2012.
“The eye is pleased when nature stoops to art.”

Source : Richard Wilbur (2004). “Collected Poems, 1943-2004”, p.395, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“People - and I include myself - get fat because they choose pleasure over self-denial.”
“I think humans in general, make associations and feel the need to group things together to have a better understanding of them. Though I would say my music is more country in a lot of ways, than it is surfy.”

Source : Source: www.roomthirteen.com

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