Performances Quotes

How much we like ourselves governs our performance.

— Brian Tracy

The White House is now essentially a TV performance.

— Edmund Snow Carpenter

Your thinking today determines your performance today.

— Zig Ziglar

The real secret of magic lies in the performance.

— David Copperfield

It's not easy to speak about your own performances.

— Joshua Kimmich

Audiences tend to get the performances they deserve...

— Gene Lees

Improve your performance by improving your attitude.

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr

...writing is not a performance but a generosity.

— Brenda Ueland

Robin Williams understands sonic performances. He understands what it's like to change your voice up.

— Billy West

Does the real thing ever have the perfection of a stage performance?

— Agatha Christie

I come from the performance world, but the idea of a worship song is different. It's useful music.

— John Tesh

Once I learned how to be a healthy vegan by eating the right foods my performance improved dramatically.

— Brendan Brazier

The magic behind every outstanding performance is always found in the smallest of details.

— Gary Ryan

Faith is the realization that God's pleasure in you will never be based upon your performance for him.

— David Platt

When you lack interest in the case the job will very likely lack skill and diligence in the performance.

— Abraham Lincoln

I am amazed and thrilled and unbelievably proud about my team's performance.

— Dick Latvala

Girded with faith and the performance of good works, let us follow in his [Jesus] paths by the guidance of the Gospel.

— Benedict of Nursia

I do love old horror, everytime I watch Rosemary's Baby the performances just get richer and richer and more multi-layered, and I…

— Robert Englund

As an actress, I'm constantly watching different shows and films and am always gathering information and inspiration for characters and techniques to…

— Rachel G. Fox

Kind are her answers, But her performance keeps no day; Breaks time, as dancers. From their own Music when they stray.

— Thomas Campion

My guess is many top athletes, distance runners included, use performance-enhancing drugs, enough so that the problem must be tackled.

— Bill Rodgers

I have never taken performance-enhancing drugs in my life and I never will. Over the course of my career I have taken…

— Mohamed Farah

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

— Peter Drucker

I've never used performance-enhancing drugs of any kind, and I never will. I've never met or spoken with Tony Bosch or used…

— Gio Gonzalez

My wife was an opera singer, you know. She bellowed her way through Wagner as a Valkyrie. I married her and made…

— Jean Anouilh

The Tonys are the once-a-year shot for all of these shows and artists who work so diligently every single performance but only…

— Neil Patrick Harris

Gypsy [Rose Lee], who was called Louise as a kid, gave her first performances here with her sister [June Hovac], playing for…

— Karen Abbott

If he be really and seriously seeking to live a good life, the first thing from which he will abstain will always…

— Leo Tolstoy

You can sit behind your computer and listen to music via a program or from the Internet and also watch performances on…

— Steve Mahoney

Reading is performance. The reader--the child under the blanket with a flashlight, the woman at the kitchen table, the man at the…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I try to stay out of the spotlight as much as humanly possible, because I think that when actors, whether or not…

— Anne Hathaway

The reason everybody is so amazed and enamored with me right now is because I have worked every angle, I have worked…

— Leslie Jones

Level 5 leaders are differentiated from other levels of leaders in that they have a wonderful blend of personal humility combined with…

— James C. Collins

Prayer brings to us blessings which we need, and which only God can give, and which prayer can alone convey to us…

— Gerhard Tersteegen

I'd like to drill in a little more detail into one aspect of cutting which is particularly close to me and that's…

— Lee Unkrich

In the current environment, attributing low student performance to teacher tenure is one of the great unproven causal links out there. The…

— Nicholas Lemann

He believed that life, true life, was something that was stored in music. True life was kept safe in the lines of…

— Ann Patchett

When you’re working with Army and Marine Corps units, you immediately notice a difference. The Army is pretty tough, but their performance…

— Chris Kyle

The Rising was mainly a piece of streat theatre designed by poets for dramatic effect. For better or worse, it became part…

— Maurice Hayes

As an actor, if you step to the side and you look at [Thornton's performance] technically, and you try to imagine doing…

— Edward Norton