“I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.”

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Unsourced in Musician's Little Book of Wisdom‎ (1996) by Scott E. Power, Quote 416.
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Austrian Romantic composer 1756–1791

Lalleshwari (1320–1392) Indian writer, mystic and saint

Naked Songs, p. 18
Poetry, From Kashmiri Poetry

“I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.”

Susan Sontag (1933–2004) American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist

Source: "Susan Sontag Finds Romance," interview by Leslie Garis, The New York Times (2 August 1992)

“I listen with attention to the judgment of all men;
but so far as I can remember,
I have followed none but my own.”

Michel De Montaigne (1533–1592) (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman

“Men are quick to praise and quick to blame; so pay no heed to what others speak of you.”

Ramakrishna (1836–1886) Indian mystic and religious preacher

1023
Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna (1960)

“Thus neither the praise nor the blame is our own.”

William Cowper (1731–1800) (1731–1800) English poet and hymnodist

"From a Letter to the Rev. Mr. Newton", line 21. (1782).

“I have been asked who caused the riots and the killing in L. A. My answer has been direct and simple. Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame. Yes, I can understand how people were shocked and outraged by the verdict in the Rodney King trial. But there is simply no excuse for the mayhem that followed.”

Dan Quayle (1947) American politician, lawyer

Commonwealth Club speech

“Here’s the thing about constant surveillance—the question you must ask yourself is not “Am I being overheard?” but “Is anybody paying attention to me?””

Sarah Zettel (1966) American writer

Source: Bitter Angels (2009), Chapter 2 (p. 18)

“I begin to get a little acquainted with my own strength and weakness. Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.”

John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet

Letter to James Hessey (October 9, 1818)
Letters (1817–1820)

“I like to praise and reward loudly, to blame quietly.”

Catherine the Great (1729–1796) Empress of Russia

As quoted in The Historians' History of the World (1904) by Henry Smith Williams, p. 423
As quoted in The Affairs of Women: A Modern Miscellany (2006) by Colin Bingham, p. 367
Variant: I praise loudly. I blame softly.

“You did late review my lays,
Crusty Christopher;
You did mingle blame and praise,
Rusty Christopher.
When I learnt from whom it came,
I forgave you all the blame,
Musty Christopher;
I could _not_ forgive the praise,
Fusty Christopher.”

John Wilson (1785–1854) Scottish advocate, literary critic and author (1785-1854)

To Christopher North http://www.fullbooks.com/The-Early-Poems-of-Alfred-Lord-Tennyson10.html by Alfred Tennyson.
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