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.
Great power constitutes its own argument, and it never has much trouble drumming up friends, applause, sympathetic exegesis, and a band.
All of us love applause, and so we should - it means that the listener likes us!
Applause is the beginning of abuse
Washington society has always demanded less and given more than any society in this country--demanded less of applause, deference,etiquette, and has accepted as current coin quick wit, appreciative tact, and a talent for talking.
Applause is a receipt, not a note of demand.
Nobody kicks on being interrupted if it's by applause.
We should welcome applause whenever it comes.
When you can be your own best audience and when your applause is the best applause you know of, youre in good shape.
When you hear bacon cooking. . . . that sizzling sound isn't the fat cooking. . . . that's applause.
An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.
Happiness is within. It has nothing to do with how much applause you get or how many people praise you. Happiness comes when you believe that you have done something truly meaningful.
If you don't compromise your gift, if you write each day as well as you can, and then submit your work and not worry about it and go on to the next piece, you suddenly find oddly enough that you're no more interested in the applause than the silence. You don't hear either one of them. You can never listen to the naysayers. If you do you won't survive.
The hoopla, the applause, the praises have never excited me.
If anyone ever boos you off stage, that is simply applause from ghosts.
A universal applause is seldom less than two thirds of a scandal
Personal sympathy has helped me on very much. My husband from first to last has watched every picture with delight, and it is my daily habit to run to him with every glass upon which a fresh glory is newly stamped, and to listen to his enthusiastic applause. This habit of running into the dining-room with my wet pictures has stained such an immense quantity of table linen with nitrate of silver, indelible stains, that I should have been banished from any less indulgent household.
Nothing would turn the nation back to God so surely and so quickly as a Church that prayed and prevailed. The world will never believe in a religion in which there is no supernatural power. A rationalized faith, a socialized Church and a moralized gospel may gain applause, but they awaken no conviction and win no converts.
Silence,--the applause of real and durable impressions.
Bacon's the best, even the frying of bacon sounds like an applause.