William Arthur Ward

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.

American Writer

Joel Osteen

It's flattering to people who stop you and say that you've helped them and all. But, again, you know, you've got to stay humble because as quick as you came up, you can come down.

American Clergyman

Toni Morrison

The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book.

American Novelist

Marilyn Monroe

Naturally, there are times when every woman likes to be flattered... to feel she is the most important thing in someone's world. Only a man can paint this picture.

American Actress

Jhumpa Lahiri

My responsibility isn't to paint a flattering portrait; my responsibility is to paint a real portrait, a true portrait.

American Author

Charlotte Bronte

I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter me.

British Novelist

David Bowie

I guess it's flattering that everyone believed I was those characters, but it also is dehumanizing.

English Musician

Tony Dungy

I guess I'm flattered that people think I can help get things done.

American Coach

Radhika Pandit

It's very flattering to be praised for each of your efforts.

Indian Actress

Wendell Phillips

Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.

American Activist

Recognize 'flatter' can imply someone has a hidden reason for giving praise.

Hidden Motive

Be aware, sometimes 'flatter' suggests compliments are not genuine.

Not Always Sincere

Use 'flatter' to describe a large amount of praise, not just a single compliment.

Intensity Matters

When talking about looks, 'flatter' refers to making the best traits stand out.

Appearance Enhancement

Flatter emphasizes positive aspects while downplaying the negatives.

Selective Focus

What flatters one person's appearance might not work for another.

Subjective Perception

'Flatter yourself' can imply overestimation of one's own importance or abilities.

Caution with Pride

Understanding 'don't flatter yourself' helps distinguish politeness from genuine interest.

Politeness vs. Interest

Remind that 'flatter yourself' might be seen as self-commendation.

Self-Praise Limit

 Those deeply ingrained habits are deeply inconsistent with where her organization is heading. The command-and-control behavior that she was once rewarded for just isn't going to work in a faster-moving, flatter, more digitally interconnected organization. What got her here won't get her there.

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 was at the center of the universe. This radically new idea was hard for a lot of people to accept. After all, Aristotle's ideas made sense with what they could see, and they were pretty flattering to humans. But a series of subsequent discoveries made the sun-centric model hard to ignore.

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 Sea turtles have flatter, lighter shells for streamlined gliding through the water. Land-dwelling tortoises, meanwhile, have domed shells that can slip free of predators’ jaws and help them turn right-side up if they fall on their backs. Leatherback and softshell turtles

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 not just virtual environments it's conferences like this rich seedbeds of serendipity and it's in the cities we live in here's a real interesting paradox in the world that's becoming flatter and flatter we are accelerating our movement into large urban

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 is by asking other people for advice. When we ask others for advice, they like us because we flatter them, and we're expressing humility. And this really works to solve another double bind. And that's the self-promotion double bind.

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 the power of it so i think they respect that but perhaps the unflattering explanation is that almost that you're letting them off the hook because you go with you know this is almost inevitable and our

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 The difficulty is it can be challenging for people with narcissistic personality disorder to keep working at self-betterment. For a narcissist, self-reflection is hard from an unflattering angle.

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 we've got to make sure that we don't seem like we're a couple of middle-aged boring men. I said, I'm flattered by that -- because I'm a bit older,