Quotes About Applause

It was just - I mean, 6,000 people giving you a standing ovation is quite an experience.

Old men need applause too.

To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.

To please great men is not the last degree of praise.

It is a brave man who is the first to sit down during a standing ovation.

O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?

Any man who makes a speech more than six times a year is bound to repeat himself, not because he has little to say, but because he wants applause and the old stuff gets it.

We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.

The audience begins to applaud in spite of itself. It's as if they can't stop themselves from applauding, from agreeing with something that they don't quite understand, but that makes too much sense to ignore.

The Renaissance… was based on a new idea of the importance of the individual. But this was a fragile foundation, because individuals depended on constant applause and admiration to sustain them. There is a shortage of applause in the world, and there is not enough respect to go around.

There is nothing like the high of being on stage and reaping applause, especially for emotionally needy people like me!

Once I'm on stage, the energy of the crowd wipes my nerves away.

I'm not going to lie to you, it's a lot nicer to have cheers rather than boos.

Some nights you walk off stage and go 'That was a good crowd.'

When I was in high school I asked myself at one point: Why do I care if my high school's team wins the football game? I don't know anybody on the team, they have nothing to do with me... why am I here and applaud? It does not make any sense. But the point is, it does make sense: It's a way of building up irrational attitudes of submission to authority and group cohesion behind leadership elements. In fact it's training in irrational jingoism. That's also a feature of competitive sports.

Unlike dream ideas, those of the artist are attuned both to the material and to society. They are a specific form of communication, intended to elicit applause, resonance of a positive or negative kind, to arouse jor or anger, clapping or booing, love or hate.

For official record, announce instructor, the state requires no epic hero. No strive achieve personal celebrity of spotlight and applause. Lectures instructor, the state desires best ideal perform as mediocre. No gain attention showboat. No buffoon. Best effort so occur average. Suppress climbing ego. Become ordinary. Invisible.

Here comes loneliness applauding itself all the way down the street.

Fragments of these speeches, in which the words 'translucence' and 'opacity' rose and burst like bubbles, now sounded in Cincinnatus's ears, and the rush of blood became applause

The people are applauding you because none of them understands you and applauding me because everybody understands me. [Charlie Chaplin to Albert Einstein]

A vida é um palco de teatro que não admite ensaios. Por isso, cante, chore, ria, antes que as cortinas se fechem e o espectáculo termine sem aplausos

The clerk in the Tank involuntarily applauded. Becoming immediately sensible of the impropriety, he poked the fire, and extinguished the last frail spark for ever.

What was the point of being selfless and brave if no one knew about it?

arte es en sí mismo y un gozo hacerlo. Los logros, los aplausos ayudan. Son la cereza en el pastel, no el pastel. El pastel es el trabajo diario.