A Quote by Samuel Johnson

Applause abates diligence.

Samuel Johnson

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Applause Diligence

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Samuel Johnson
English - Writer
September 18, 1709 - December 13, 1784

You can tell by the applause: There's perfunctory applause, there's light applause, and then there's real applause. When it's right, applause sounds like vanilla ice cream with chocolate sauce.

Skitch Henderson

Comedy crowds - we always want to come out and ask you, 'How you feeling?' We always say that, 'By a round of applause, how do you feel?' Right? 'By a round of applause, how you feeling?' It's the only place in the world that you judge how you're feeling by a round of applause... There's never like a car accident, people all over the ground, people running over - 'Ma'am! Ma'am! By a round of applause, how do you feel? By a round of applause - she's not clapping!

Dane Cook

Diligence which, as it avails in all things, is also of the utmost moment in pleading causes. Diligence is to be particularly cultivated by us; it is to be constantly exerted; it is capable of effecting almost everything.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Awards are like applause, and every actor likes to hear applause.

Ralph Fiennes

There is always a certain noise in applause: even in the applause we give ourselves.

Friedrich Nietzsche

To the proud, the applause of the world rings in their ears; to the humble, the applause of heaven warms their hearts.

Ezra Taft Benson

I appreciate your applause, but I don't do it for applause. I do it for cash, it's much better.

Eddie Izzard

Applause, applause, life is our cause.

Joni Mitchell

Possession naturally abates the Vigour of Desire.

Eliza Haywood

Memory nourishes the heart, and grief abates.

Marcel Proust

Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward.

Carol Channing

You'll hear a lot of applause in your life, but none will mean more to you than that applause from your peers. I hope each of you hears that at the end.

Andre Agassi

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.

Theodore Zeldin

Applause is an instinctive, unconscious act expressing the sympathy between actors and audience. Just as our art demands more instinct than intellect in its exercise, so we demand of those who watch us an apppreciation of the simple unconscious kind which finds an outlet in clapping rather than the cold intellectual approval which would self-consciously think applause derogatory. I have yet to meet the actor who was sincere in saying that he disliked applause.