Quotes About Reception

'Housewives' opened the door for me for people to listen.

Audiences I speak to are often openly hostile, and I know my arguments might fall on deaf ears with 99% of the audience.

You always worry before your movie opens that no one is going to come out.

A lot of people hated every moment of my 'Ring.' And a lot of people who had never been to an opera bought subscriptions to the next season.

You can get an audience no matter what your opinion is.

The crowd are entitled to their opinion, and as players, we have to go out there and play well.

LADY BRACKNELL: It is my last reception, and one wants something that will encourage conversation, particularly at the end of the season when every one has practically said whatever they had to say, which, in most cases, was probably not much.

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn.

Communication appears to be deceptively easy. However, most of us carry a major misconception about the process: that communication is primarily message sending. Communication does not take place until someone receives the message and understands it as the sender intended. The most eloquent speech or the most beautifully composed letter isn't a successful communication if it misses the mark.

Comprendamos que las críticas son como palomas mensajeras. Siempre vuelven al nido.

Satyr," he says, "is a sort of Glass, wherein Beholders do generally discover every body's Face but their Own; which is the chief Reason for that kind Reception it meets in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.

It was that his words, his telling, just did not synchronize with what his hearers believed would (and must) be the scope of a single individual.

The Germans heard vaguely in their censored press and broadcasts of the revulsion abroad but they noticed that it did not prevent foreigners from flocking to the Third Reich and seemingly enjoying its hospitality.

What is told into the ear of a man is often heard a hundred miles away.

Southern towns had simply not welcomed the iron road with the same warm embrace as their northern counterparts.

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.

first choice had been to rent a cabin in the woods, but that is too much nature. I don't do cabins in the woods because I have seen too many movies about cabins in the woods. If someone wants to murder me, they are going to have to get past reception.

Responding to myth often means wearing blinkers. Myth is a complex game of production and reception that involves selecting some parts of a narrative and suppressing others. As we shall see later on, this process of communication is not always easily controlled.

Flattery is never so agreeable as to our blind side; commend a fool for his wit, or a knave for his honesty, and they will receive you into their bosoms

Bells rang, the stewards rushed forward, and—like rye shaken together in a shovel—the guests who had been scattered about in different rooms came together and crowded in the large drawing-room by the door of the ballroom.

We did no train ourselves to receive, because we believed there wasn't anything to receive and we could not endure with this belief.

I take it for what it is, and sometimes the criticism is actually useful and constructive and actually informs what I do, but most of the time, it's sort of mindless, or they're receiving something on a different frequency than I was sending it.

I don't think it's useful for somebody to argue with reviews.

It is utterly asinine that people continually go to comedy shows without bothering to see if their sensibilities line up with the comedians.