We cannot at once catch the applauses of the vulgar and expect the approbation of the wise.
I have found so much joy and so much pride in contributing and being a team member, and then stepping back and watching someone else get the applause. That has been really satisfying in a way that I wouldn't have probably imagined.
There are some whom the applause of the multitude has deluded into the belief that they are really statesmen.
The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
People go into politics because they want the affirmation, and they want the applause.
My mother used to tell this corny story about how the doctor smacked me on the behind when I was born and I thought it was applause, and I have been looking for it ever since.
Chandresh relishes reactions. Genuine reactions, not mere polite applause. He often values the reactions over the show itself. A show without an audience is nothing, after all. In the response of the audience, that is where the power of performance lives.
My advice to you concerning applause is this: enjoy it but never quite believe it
I try to be good at it, whatever part I'm playing - even in my daily life or when the spotlight hits me on the stage to perform - I gotta be alive every second in this world. With or without the applause!
The applause of silence. is the only kind that counts.
In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
If you don't compromise your gift, if you write each day as well as you can, and then submit your work and not worry about it and go on to the next piece, you suddenly find oddly enough that you're no more interested in the applause than the silence. You don't hear either one of them. You can never listen to the naysayers. If you do you won't survive.
Still, I also know that most people, including me, tend to applaud the wrong things: the showy, dramatic record-setting sprint rather than the years of dogged preparation or the unwavering grace displayed during a string of losses. Applause, then, never bore much relation to the reality of my life as an astronaut, which was not all about, or even mostly about, flying around in space.
. . . and people are to march around the church to commemorate the event, Palm Sunday, when Jesus rode into Jerusalem and was greeted with applause and with palms. People thought he had come to overthrow the Romans, but. . . no. . . he had come to change THEM. . . and that led to things turning bad.
You don't go to a town to present the play and have applause at the end of it, but that's benign conquest. It's a glorious way of exploring other landscapes and other cultures in a very life-affirming way.
All this is a dream to me. Everything, the applause, the fans asking for autographs, the trips, all that is a dream.
That's the greatest applause that any person will ever receive in their life when it comes from their peers
The hoopla, the applause, the praises have never excited me.
Silence,--the applause of real and durable impressions.
What exactly is success? For me it is to be found not in applause, but in the satisfaction of feeling that one is realizing one's ideal.