In those places of doubt and even darkness I've realized that who I am has nothing to do with wins or losses, applause, or negative criticism. It has to do with whose I am.
One learns to ignore criticism by first learning to ignore applause.
The applause and the favour of our fellow-men Fan even a spark of genius to a flame.
Only in the theatre was it possible to see the performers and to be warmed by their personal charm, to respond to their efforts and to feel their response to the applause and appreciative laughter of the audience. It had an intimate quality; audience and actors conspired to make a little oasis of happiness and mirth within the walls of the theatre. Try as we will, we cannot be intimate with a shadow on a screen, nor a voice from a box.
I always get more applause than votes.
Appreciation, applause, approval, respect - we all love it!
Applause, applause, life is our cause.
An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.
A stand-up comic is judged by every line. Singers get applause at the end of their song no matter how bad they are.
We protest against unjust criticism but we accept unarmed applause.
Those who play for applause. . . . Tha t’s all they get.
Too liberal self-accusations are generally but so many traps for acquittal with applause.
I appeal to the contemptible speech made lately by Sir Robert Peel to an applauding House of Commons. 'Orders of merit,' said he, 'were the proper rewards of the military' (the desolators of the world in all ages). 'Men of science are better left to the applause of their own hearts. ' Most learned Legislator! Most liberal cotton-spinner! Was your title the proper reward of military prowess? Pity you hold not the dungeon-keys of an English Inquisition! Perhaps Science, like creeds, would flourish best under a little persecution.
Applause is interesting, but I'm a monster with or without it. Something is either well written or it isn't. 'White Rabbit' is not well written, and no amount of applause or royalties can convince me it is. I could have done a better job with those lyrics. They didn't say what I wanted.
Temp'rate in every place--abroad, at home, Thence will applause, and hence will profit come; And health from either--he in time prepares For sickness, age, and their attendant cares.
The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten.
All of us love applause, and so we should - it means that the listener likes us!
Occasionally if you do something extraordinary, the crew responds with spontaneous applause, but that's very rare.
Try to exist even under hardest conditions! That is the effort which deserves the applauses most!
If anyone ever boos you off stage, that is simply applause from ghosts.