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Criticize in private, praise in public.

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praise publicly, but criticize privately.

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Criticize by category — praise by name.

To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.

What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.

You're in the public eye. You sometimes will get criticism, and it can be tough to swallow.

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I praise loudly. I blame softly.

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

I like to praise and reward in a loud voice and to scold in a whisper.

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