Treat people as if they were what they should be, and you help them become what they are capable of becoming. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. German writer and polymath (1749–1832)
Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.
Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but is sure to repent of every ill-judged outlay.