#applause

Nobody kicks on being interrupted if it's by applause. ↗

— Kin Hubbard

#being #interrupted #kicks #nobody

To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#applause #demand #hinders #means #our

The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

#depressed #failure #go #guiding #life

And I tell my audience, you know, give the real stars a round of applause. Because without them I'm nobody. So I learned so much from people like that. ↗

— Little Milton

#audience #because #give #i #know

I always get more applause than votes. ↗

— Norman Thomas

#applause #get #i #i always #more

Concerto soloists need applause. Though virtue is said to be its own reward, no one ever said that about virtuosity. ↗

— Joseph Kerman

#music

Sometimes I wish that applause would come just a bit later, when it is so beautifully hushed that I feel like holding my breath in the silence of the end. ↗

— Emanuel Ax

#beautifully #bit #breath #come #end

What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#breakfast #eat #fans #good #sleep

Popular applause veers with the wind. ↗

— John Bright

#popular #wind

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. ↗

— William Feather

#applause #because #bound #gets #himself