"If you don't compromise your gift, if you……" — James Lee Burke

"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."

— James Lee Burke

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There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone… — George Matthew Adams
To the proud, the applause of the world rings in their ears; to the humble, the applause of heaven warms… — Ezra Taft Benson
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones. — Edmund Burke
The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping . — Dale Carnegie
Applause is a receipt, not a bill. — Dale Carnegie
Cooking for people is an enormously significant expression of generosity and soulfulness, and entertaining is a way to be both… — Ted Allen
To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism. — Franz Grillparzer
As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst… — Edward Gibbon
The applause of a single human being is of great consequence. — Samuel Johnson
To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Just about the only interruption we don't object to is applause. — Sydney J. Harris
My advice to you concerning applause is this: enjoy it but never quite believe it — Robert Montgomery

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