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Quotes About Reception

Every time I make a picture the critics' estimate of American public taste goes down ten percent.
~ Cecil B. DeMille
How we come into this world, how we are ushered in, met, and hopefully embraced upon arrival, impacts the whole of our time on earth.
~ Alice Walker
I do not at all understand the mystery of grace--only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us. I can be received gladly or grudgingly, in big gulps or in tiny tastes, like a deer at the salt.
~ Anne Lamott
I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us. It can be received gladly or grudgingly, in big gulps or in tiny tastes.
~ Anne Lamott
Killashandra steeled herself for yet another protocologically correct reception.
~ Anne McCaffrey
The writing that so thrills and exhilarates you, as if you were dancing right next to the band, is barely audible to anyone else.
~ Annie Dillard
If you bring your best self to the world, your best work, and the world doesn't receive it, it's entirely possible that your marketing sucked.
~ Seth Godin
When we do the work for the audience, we open the door to giving up our attachment to how the audience will receive the work. That's up to them. Our job is to be generous, as generous as we know how to be, with our work.
~ Seth Godin
Weird. I rang it three times." – Nekoda "There might be something with out condo." 'Other than the fact that it lived under a perpetual dismal cloud and was infested with roaches the size of his fist. It was probably over a hellmouth, too, that didn't allot for any kind of reception other than two cans joined by a length string.' – Nick
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
When a performer goes out on a stage, they may feel the audience is judging every aspect of them and their life. In fact, all that poor audience is doing is waiting to be entertained a little.
~ Suzanne Falter-Barns
It'll play in Peoria.
~ John Ehrlichman
I send my words to you over the ether net like a message in a bottle...
~ John Geddes
Protestants appeal to Scripture against the Church, "they forget that it is from this very Church, and on her authority, that Scripture is received.
~ John Joseph Laux
We live on just in the same way, having very few visitors, and receiving them in the quietest of hospitalities.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Christ was a religious prophet from an even earlier era, very popular on Terra for several thousand years. He preached all the usual things the better class of prophets preach, about respecting your fellow beings and treating them as one would like oneself to be treated. He got about the reception you'd expect, and his teachings were widely misinterpreted for millennians
~ Elizabeth Bear
Pray let us greet our host and the guest of honor, that I may receive my measure of scorn from each and we may be away.
~ Elizabeth Bear
The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
It's time to go and face them. To prepare them, as we say in the trade, a proper reception. Welcome to my island, assholes.
~ Austin Grossman
Lil Boat 2' people liked, but it was all rap. Some thought it was too much.
~ Lil Yachty
The people with mean things to say, say them. At the end of the day, the mean things and the good things only drive viewership. So what do you want? You want the ratings.
~ Craig Zadan
It's always good for people to like you, but as long as people react to you coming out, whether they are booing you or cheering you, it's great.
~ Sheamus
I believe in the fact that an audience has one heart. I can just tell you one thing: If I sing the 'Adagio,' and I pull it out with all the honesty I have - whether they're Japanese, Italian, American or Belgian or French - they will react in the same way.
~ Lara Fabian
I always feel like you never know: sometimes you can put out work that you feel is really strong, and other times, you can put out work you think is less strong, and people react to it, so it's kinda like in the eye of the beholder!
~ Beth Hart
It's the reaction I've gotten my whole life: that I learn something and try to tell people in conversation, but when I tell them, they are annoyed.
~ Adam Conover