Quotes About Reception

I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.

First impression is the best impression.

Gerade als er in einigen Bogenlinien auf die Portierloge zusteuerte, stieß die Drehtür ein merkwürdiges Individuum in die Vorhalle" (S.13)

Our attitude to people determines their attitude to us.

We do not want to merely "see" beauty. We want to be united with it, to receive it into ourselves, to become part of it.

It is not our business to make the message acceptable, but to make it available. We are not to see that they like it, but that they get it.

You're a musician and you live and die by people responding to your music. It's a business just like anything else and if people don't like your music, that's kind of your problem.

The atmosphere you create influence the reception the other person will give you.

Keith Moon, God rest his soul, once drove his car through the glass doors of a hotel, driving all the way up to the reception desk, got out and asked for the key to his room.

With stand-up you've just got that one chance. Audiences can be quite fickle.

When we pray, instead of trying to produce love in our souls toward God, we should be basking in God's love for us. How foolish to stay indoors in the cold, dark little room off the self, trying to turn on the light and turn up the heat, when we can just go outside into God's glorious Sonlight and receive his rays! How silly to fuss with artificial tanning salons and lotions and lights when the Son is out!

Sometimes when you hit send, you can imagine the message going straight into the person's heart. But other times, like this time, it feels like the words are merely falling into a well.

You are leaving me messages, but I haven't gotten the message yet.

Writers who complain most vociferously about the way their work has been pigeonholed because of a particular personal attribute—their race, say, or sexual orientation, or even their physical beauty—are always the writers whose work (the reception to whose work) has most directly benefited from this attribute.

Feedback) People become addicted to it. That's why journalism is so popular, because you want to hear, every day, what people think of what you just wrote. I think a little patience on that front can be good, too.

I am often criticised for being rather accessible.

I make films according to the taste of the audience.

Is an audience open to seeing a film that isn't what they expect when they see a film that's been adapted from a children's book?

People don't generally like advertising that takes a stand.

I think the fact is that World Coming Down was just a really hard album for people to deal with.

I feel that too much singing annoys people.

There's no way for me to anticipate what people will like or not like.

My advice wouldn't be good to anybody. I don't see it really being greeted with thunderous applause.

I prefer audiences away from London because they're more appreciative.