“Beyond a narrow, elite audience, there is a pervasive sense from the side of the public that much contemporary art fails to connect - a failure not evident throughout centuries of earlier art.” ArtSidesAudienceFailingCenturyContemporaryElitesEvidentContemporary Art Author:John Walford
“Showing your movie to an audience... it's like your kid doing a piano recital. 'Just let it not fail. Please.” KidsAudienceFailingLike YouPleasePianoRecitals Author:Rian Johnson
“A lot of us grew up in public. That often means that you have to fail in public too.” MeanAudienceFailingGrewGrew Up Author:Robert Longo
“I genuinely have never been in an audience where most people want that person to fail. I've never been in an audience like that, and I've never seen it as a performer. Only in my dreams, in which case they are always throwing tomatoes and going, "This is the most boring thing I've ever seen."” PeopleWantPersonsDreamCasesAudienceFailingBoringPerformersThrowingTomatoesBoring Things Author:Laurie Anderson
“9/10 startups fail, which is a harsh reality in the world of entrepreneurship. However, I believe that such a high number of startups fail because they do not take the right steps necessary when building their business. The biggest challenge people have is building something that their target audience or niche really wants.” PeopleWorldWantBelieveRealityI BelieveChallengesNumbersStepsAudienceFailingBuildingEntrepreneurshipTargetHarshNicheTarget AudienceHarsh RealityBuilding Something Author:Jeet Banerjee
“The greatest success goes to the person who is not afraid to fail in front of even the largest audience.” PersonsAudienceFailingFrontsEntrepreneurNot AfraidGreatest SuccessAfraid To Fail Author:David Packard
“You gotta learn to love when you're failing.... The embracing of that, the discomfort of failing in front of an audience, leads you to penetrate through the fear that blinds you. Fear is the mind killer.” MindAudienceFailingFrontsKillersPenetrateDiscomfort Author:Stephen Colbert
“The thing I fail to do is fully comprehend what's given back to me by the audience. You would think you would be a performer partly so you could feel all the appreciation or adulation, but I haven't quite managed that yet.” ThinkingFeelsWould BeGivenAudienceFailingHavensAppreciationPerformersAdulation Author:Michelle Shocked
“I'm imagining there's a particular audience out there that's younger and older, too. It works on two levels. Do they exist? I don't know. I had to make it to find out if it does. When you do something this experimental, that's part of the process and part of the risk. I only spent my own money, so that I'm the only person that gets hurt, if it fails.” IfsKnowsPersonsDoeTwoProcessHurtMy OwnLevelsAudienceFailingRiskParticular Author:Joseph M. Kahn
“You can't expect everyone to laugh or applaud you for doing edgy things. Sometimes you'll miss. But I think comedians are artists and there's a value in failure. It kind of works both ways between comedians and audiences. The audience has to understand that comedians are going to sometimes tell a joke that doesn't work out with dark subjects, and the comedian has to understand that sometimes they 'll fail and it's not the audience's fault for not getting it or loving it.” ThinkingWayKindSometimesArtistValuesDarkAudienceLaughingFailingSubjectsMissingJokesFaultsWork OutComedianEdgy Author:Anthony Jeselnik
“Somewhat predictably, I'm much more comfortable in front of an audience - and a big audience is even better - than faced with one stranger. This always seems like a bit of a failing on my part, as a human. I think that's also why I put myself situations where I'm forced to engage in other ways.” ThinkingWayHumansBigsSeemsBitsSituationAudienceFailingFrontsComfortableStranger Author:Miranda July
“In the many times I have seen Hillary [Clinton] speak, she never fails to dazzle audiences by speaking in paragraphs, without notes.” SpeakAudienceFailingNotesClintonParagraphDazzle Author:Gail Sheehy