Adulation Quotations

I'm always shy in front of an audience, so I'm always at the back, in the shadows, just doing it. I don't like the front, the adulation.

I am living on the razor's edge between success and failure, adulation and humiliation - between justifying my existence and revealing my unworthiness to be alive.

Where the work goes, I go. Wherever adulation occurs, that's where you'll find me.

Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.

Looking back, yes, I made too many comebacks. But each comeback I was 100 percent sure that I would win. I never came back for the money, because I didn't need it. The adulation I was getting anyway in other spheres. But I'm a guy who likes to see how close he can get to the edge of the mountain - that's what makes me tick.

The enthusiasm, the adulation for us as jazz artists, in Kiev and Odessa was really heartwarming.

Ever since Pele's extraordinary talents blessed the world of football, black footballers have been accepted in the pantheon of the greats. But to achieve commercial recognition is somewhat different: it requires a form of adulation that also spells identification and role model.

I go for a couple of parties; you won't find me at every film party and never at award ceremonies. I tried attending for the first three to four years, and I've performed at award shows. I sat in them, and I've also exited pretty fast from them. It's just not my place. I'd rather get their adulation in a cinema hall.

I get enough adulation from my family. I get enough phone calls and asking for tickets that I need. They're a little more happy this year, I think.

Stand on your strength. Be unmoved, either by adulation or denigration. Follow My lead. I am unaffected by either; I march on alone, undeterred and of My own accord. I am My own Guide and Witness; have full faith in this.

Robert Downey Jr. doesn't work out like us regular folks. Adulation bathes him from the moment he arrives at his Los Angeles martial arts studio.

All that is good is ours not by right but by the sheer bounty of a gracious God

the public adulation for Saturday was worrying because here was a 9/11 book that everyone was praising to the sky, making into a bestseller, and it was not a good book for McEwan, who is a very, very good writer. But maybe I shouldn't have been so pompous.

When you start to have success in athletics and get the adulation and praise that follows, that becomes quite an addiction. It gets you feeling better about yourself -- 'Maybe I am worthy.' That's why it may fuel that passion and drive to be great.

Performers only go wacko when they fall from grace if they like the adulation more than the work.

Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

I'm not sure that it matters as much to women as to our male colleagues to have the public adulation and be on the public mind.

If you are lucky enough to be a success, by all means enjoy the applause and adulation of the public. But never, never believe it.

In whatever adulation you get, there's truth and there's not truth. And wherever they dog you, and they say it was horrible - there's truth and there's not truth. It's human nature to like to read the adulation more.

I felt very much appreciated on the field today, ... There were a lot of people with Saints jerseys that were very nice to me in welcoming me back. I don't want to minimize the fact there was some personal adulation based on the reception I received.