Quotes About Reception

The inexorable box which keeps its mouth open to all comers receives its epistolary provender from all hands.

We were overwhelmed by how much the first album connected with people, but I wouldn't put us in the 'pop star' realm.

God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament.

To expect the world to receive a new truth, or even an old truth, without challenging it, is to look for one of those miracles which do not occur.

A work of art is one through which the consciousness of the artist is able to give its emotions to anyone who is prepared to receive them. There is no such thing as bad art.

I experience psychic phenomena, so people think I must be crazy. But you have to be accessible and intelligent to be a good actor. I might not have gotten the best grades in school, but I have a very high level of emotional intelligence. You have to be open to receive.

It was of the greatest moment, and consequence, that they should believe in him when he came, for they could receive no benefit from him without believing him to be their Messiah.

Any art communicates what you're in the mood to receive.

Modern-day cinema takes the form of a sermon. You don't get to think, you only get to receive information.

The comedian can put the punchline out there, but it's the audience that receives it - and has to get it.

Most writers of entertainment fiction tend to receive controversial reviews.

If I'm not nervous, I'm nervous. You never know how people are going to receive the work.

I don't have a problem with how people receive the music. I feel like it's for everybody.

Mike Judge usually receives underwhelming acclaim for his movies when they come out; it takes a while for people to catch up.

You just have to enjoy what you're doing. You just never know how people are going to receive it.

In a lot of ways, I feel like I'm just taking the music that comes to me and trying to make it as beautiful as I can. You can't really predict or control how people will receive that music.

The public is interested in the service it receives, not the mechanism that delivers it.

It's something powerful to receive all this love. In the street. In Congo, everywhere. But it's also hellish at the same time. When all that comes at you from one day to the next, it's really destabilizing.

You need to receive the ball and be assertive with it.

I don't let the fans rule my world and rule what I do, or how I do it, because as artists we give what we give and you receive how you want to receive.

I do not try to duplicate anyone's success; I am just really inspired by what they have done. I like the fact that The Roots can tour extensively, put out albums, and be so well received; that takes a lot of work. I really admire that, and it's something that I try to attain myself.

Careers are funny things. They begin mysteriously and, just as mysteriously, they can end; and I am at just the very beginning of what I hope will be a long and satisfying life in the theater. But, whatever happens, I am grateful to have had my novice work received so well, and so quickly.

I like to do things in my own way and have my own personal language, but I can't control how it's received.

Haiti is my country. The same way the Beatles are received in England - that's how Wyclef Jean is received in Haiti, do you know what I mean?