It's my theory that if you hear enough applause and laughter at a young enough age, you're doomed — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys. — Golda Meir Copy Share Image
Instead of always asking how to get others to approve of you... learn to ask: What do I really want, the applause… — Guy Finley Copy Share Image
Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause. He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The melancholy ghosts of dead renown, Whispering faint echoes of the world's applause. — Edward Young Copy Share Image
Seek not to grow in knowledge chiefly for the sake of applause, and to enable you to dispute with others; but seek… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
In many ways we were drugged when we were young. We were brought up to need people. For what? For acceptance, approval,… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
If you really want a prize, or if you really want applause, you should try to write as many books as humanly… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I have found so much joy and so much pride in contributing and being a team member, and then stepping back and… — Sara Bareilles Copy Share Image
Temp'rate in every place--abroad, at home, Thence will applause, and hence will profit come; And health from either--he in time prepares For… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
Cyriack, whose Grandsire on the Royal Bench Of British Themis, with no mean applause Pronounced and in his volumes taught our Laws,… — John Milton Copy Share Image
There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I… — George Matthew Adams Copy Share Image
From then on, I realized this is what I want to do, what I'm supposed to do: Giving energy and receiving it… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
I think some people who go into public life, if they go in needing the applause of thousands, they're never going to… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
I know that applause is food for the arts, but it ceases to be wholesome if administered indiscriminately; and the nutrition is… — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share Image
We waited for Congress to act. They couldn't act on the issue. So I just went ahead and signed an executive order… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The teacher always used me as an example to the class of good English and good storytelling because we all had to… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
Apologizing for our past sins may reveal character and for a time lessen anti-Americanism abroad, but if it is done without acknowledging… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
A wise man's kingdom is his own breast: or, if he ever looks farther, it will only be to the judgment of… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The truly great consider, first, how they may gain the approbation of God, and, secondly, that of their own conscience. Having done… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The absence of romance from my history will, I fear, detract somewhat from its interest; but if it be judged useful by… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote,… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
All of us have a responsibility to work for the day when the mothers of Israelis and Palestinians can see their children… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The eternal task of song can never be finished in a single lifetime. That is the beauty and fascination of the art.… — Nellie Melba Copy Share Image
There is always a certain noise in applause: even in the applause we give ourselves. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Neither human applause nor human censure is to be taken as the best of truth; but either should set us upon testing… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
We are full of rhythms . . . our pulse, our gestures, our digestive tracts, the lunar and seasonal cycles. — Yehudi Menuhin Copy Share Image
There is nothing like the high of being on stage and reaping applause, especially for emotionally needy people like me! — Douglas Wood Copy Share Image
Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess, and to gain applause… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
That's the greatest applause that any person will ever receive in their life when it comes from their peers — Andre Agassi Copy Share Image
Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers. Christian Bovee A little praise Goes a great ways. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent… — Alec Waugh Copy Share Image
“It matters not if the world has heard or approves or understands...the only applause we're meant to seek is that of nail-scarred… — B.J. Hoff Copy Share Image
There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one's work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers… — Moliere Copy Share Image
“Ah yes, a great victory, this 'sport'. I am sure El Toro appreciates the applause Jumping in the Puddles of Life” — Loretta Livingstone Copy Share Image
“A magician reveals himself not only by the magic he presents but also by the respect and entertainment he gives to his… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Nothing guarantees more applause and more support than the call to abolish the IRS. — Frank Luntz Copy Share Image
We cannot at once catch the applauses of the vulgar and expect the approbation of the wise. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Many shining actions owe their success to chance, though the general or statesman receive the applause. — Homer Copy Share Image
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