When I played, I received racial abuse but I was just one of a few black players and we weren't backed up by the authorities.
It's hard to make music knowing that it's not going to be received by the listener in the way that it should be.
From a pound of iron, that costs little, a thousand watch-springs can be made, whose value becomes prodigious. The pound you have received from the Lord,--use it faithfully.
We sometimes received - and I would read - 200 manuscripts a week. Some of them were wonderful, some were terrible; most were mediocre. It was like the gifts of the good and bad fairies.
I approach my work with a passionate intensity, acting as if its success depends entirely on me. "But once I've done my best, I try to let go as much as possible and have no expectations about how my work will be received by the world. "
As with many other folk beliefs, 'feng-shui' undoubtedly incorporates some scientifically correct observation or received wisdom based on direct experience of natural phenomena; but it needs to be dealt with skeptically as a credible system of thought. Some feng-shui prescriptions can certainly lead to desirable results.
Teaching unsupported by grace may enter our ears, but it never reaches the heart. When God's grace does touch our innermost minds to bring understanding, then his word, which is received by the ear, can sink deep into the heart.
There is nothing so fleeting as the memory of benefits received.
My films seem to be better understood and better received by the monthly publications. On television the first reactions are usually unfavorable.
I received the best advice for running I ever heard: 'You're not going to win, so just relax. If it feels like work, you're running too hard.
God's delight is received upon surrender, not awarded upon conquest.
My mom had me when she was 16, and I was an only child, which is probably why I received a lot of love and didn't miss that my father wasn't around.
For instance, The Sixth Sense had mediocre to bad reviews. Slowly, the audience pushed it and it received critical attention.
I am opposed, naturally, to regurgitating anecdote or any other form of received wisdom, unless it is characterized as such.
Postal will be so politically incorrect and harsh, it's like a mirror to American society, and I don't think the movie will be well received by everybody. For example, Osama Bin Laden will be one of the lead characters - I think that shows the mood of the movie.
The best advice on writing I've ever received is to take it seriously, because to do it well is all-consuming.
When a woman has not received much flattery in her life, she will be seduced.
What is the best advice, business or otherwise, you've had and from whom? The best advice I've received came many years ago from my father. He told me that you should love whatever work you do, you should try to find something you truly enjoy. And I've been lucky through the years that the work I've been involved with has been challenging and for the most part, fun.
No man tells his opinion so freely as when he imagines it received with implicit veneration.
I still believe in the resilience of the human heart and the essential validity of love;I still believe that connections between people can be made and that the spirits which inhabit us sometimes touch. I still believe that the cost of these connections is horribly, outrageously high. . . and I still believe that the value received far outweighs the price which must be paid. (From introductory notes. )