Performances Quotations | Page 2

I like not to know, unless it's something that I need to know, specifically, for how I color a performance.

performance is an act of faith.

You have your structure, but within it, it gets fuller and you can highlight other parts of the performance.

When you try hard to do your best, the effect on your performance is often to jinx it.

I performed stand-up because I didn't have to ask anyone's permission. My set was never joke-centric. It was a performance.

Buildings are forms of performances.

Shutting people down creatively often doesn't get the best performance out of them.

Music gets recorded usually in one format, and when you have to take it out and perform it there are other applications and things like that that are better for the live performance.

The core of the concept of a bribe is an inducement improperly influencing the performance of a public function meant to be gratuitously exercised.

I am pure performance, and Robert Wilson is pure theater.

The sign of a great player is how much he elevates his colleagues' performance.

I have never had a single positive doping test, and I do not take performance-enhancing drugs.

Whenever I have a bad performance, I look at it as a learning experience.

I owe one thing to my public - the best performance I can give.

I always find that 90% of the performance, for me, is about what comes from inside.

Drugs won't enhance your performance.

I don't want to talk about the specifics of other people's performances compared with my own. I'd never do that.

The audience, the place youre in, has everything to do with how your performance goes.

I do like to collaborate, and I like hearing other people, and I like how somebody's performance will affect my own.

The one aspect I do love about digital is I love to push performance and I love to roll and roll and keep doing takes in a single performance.

Somehow writing has always seemed to me to have an element of performance.

You can prematurely optimize maintainability, flexibility, security, and robustness just like you can performance.

Oysters are supposed to enhance your sexual performance, but they don't work for me. Maybe I put them on too soon.

How you measure the performance of your managers directly affects the way they act.

Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.

Nothing beats a live performance. Nothing.

No one tells you what to do if you completely flop at the beginning of a performance.

My job is to create a film, where we are capturing truth in performances.

I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.

Oh that thou hadst like others been all words, And no performance.

To be overcome with the ultimate goal often interferes with performance.

The Kobe 8 is about enhanced performance. It's the most comfortable shoe I have worn. It's simplistic but has an edge to it.

I can assure you, nothing in my performance will be deflated

I've seen how much effort has to go into a tour, the performance and also how to look after yourself, not just physically, but mentally too.

I became fascinated by the fact that you could translate written material into performance.

I don't think anyone could ever be wholly satisfied with their performance.

The best way to improve mental performance, is to improve physical performance

Sometimes colleagues in performance are absolutely astonishing.

Every time I've had a bad performance at an event, I've come back more determined and focused.

Music is about the performance.

Chris Chandler is the best performance poet I have ever seen.

no work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps.

The only excuse for not coming to a class or a performance is death.

You can't, or you shouldn't, be nominated for an Oscar unless you've turned in a performance that's special.

I do everything in the third person. Performance is about being someone else.

To some Christianity is an argument. To many it is a performance. To a few, it is experience.

I heard some interesting things about your performance up here." "I hear interesting things about your 'performance' all the time Doug, but you don't hear me making jokes about it.

We all perform. It's what we do for each other all the time, deliberately or unintionally. It's a way of telling about ourselves in the hope of being recognized as what we'd like to be.--PERFORMANCE

For decades, the journalistic norm had been that the private lives of public officials remained private unless that life impinged on public performance.

I like the energy of live performance.

When we ... devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty, ihen happiness comes of itself.

It's true, spectacular preparation always precedes spectacular performance.

The way you see yourself today will affect your performance today.

What you picture in your mind, your mind will go to work to accomplish. When you change your pictures you automatically change your performance

When your image improves, your performance improves.

If I am ever put to death on the hook, expect a very human performance.

The highest knowledge can be nothing more than the shortest and clearest road to truth; all the rest is pretension, not performance, mere verbiage and grandiloquence, from which we can learn nothing.

Winners believe in their worth in advance of their performance.

Effective performance is preceded by painstaking preparation

Your self-image controls your performance; see yourself as confident and in complete control

How much we like ourselves governs our performance.

Peak performance begins with your taking complete responsibility for your life and everything that happens to you.

There are no prizes for average performance.

An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment.

I have absolutely no objection to performance and success as long as they don't become false idols and threaten to rule our lives.

The really historical performance would talk to ghosts.

Mastery has been achieved when one neither makes a mistake nor hesitates in the performance.

Improve your performance by improving your attitude.

You mustn't judge a politician by talk. You have to judge them by performance.

The supreme misfortune is when theory outstrips performance

A person can perform only from strength. One cannot build performance on weakness, let alone on something one cannot do at all.

You cannot build performance on weaknesses. You can build only on strengths.

What can I contribute that will significantly affect the performance and the results of the institution I serve?

God is more concerned about your heart than your performance. If your heart is right, your performance will eventually catch up.

We do what we can, and then make a theory to prove our performance the best.

All promise outruns performance.

I make 50 cents for showing up... and the other 50 cents is based on my performance.

Computers double their performance every month.

Distinguish between the person and the behavior or performance.

Trust is the one thing that affects everything else you're doing. It's a performance multiplier which takes your trajectory upwards, for every activity you engage in, from strategy to execution.