Performances Quotes · Page 26

Our little pebble of poor performance helps to start, or to sustain, an avalanche.

— Neal A. Maxwell

Operational effectiveness and strategy are both essential to superior performance.

— Michael Porter

When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance it becomes literature.

— Raymond Chandler

Praising children’s intelligence harms their motivation and it harms their performance.

— Carol S. Dweck

When the audience enjoys your performance, you feel like a magician who is doing magic. It's a great feeling!

— Kailash Kher

The conception, composition, practice, and performance of a piece of music can blossom in a single moment.

— Stephen Nachmanovitch

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

— Matt Bomer

Mutual fund manager performance does not persist and the return of stock picking is zero.

— William J. Bernstein

SIREN, n. One of several musical prodigies famous for a vain attempt to dissuade Odysseus from a life on the ocean wave.…

— Ambrose Bierce

The voters reward good performance. So, I'm going to go out and focus, if I become the governor, to do the very…

— Dave Heineman

In programming when you're making a change you have to know all the affected places, and you have to be able to…

— Bill Gates

I do not think that anybody should get paid for lousy performance. I've said that for a long time. If you work…

— Michael Bloomberg

I like the powerful story, the excellent performances the beautiful cinematography and the vision of the "The Piano".

— Mabel Cheung

The highest knowledge can be nothing more than the shortest and clearest road to truth; all the rest is pretension, not performance,…

— Charles Caleb Colton

People who focus on 'getting better' goals (also known as Personal Bests) as opposed to performance goals have a much better chance…

— Jill Konrath

Talking about performance is such a strange thing because it's so immaterial. We are talking about soft matter. We are talking about…

— Marina Abramovic

Sir: It gives me pleasure to report to you the fine bearing and soldierly conduct of Captain Wilson and his men whilst…

— John Taylor Wood

Whether you are a writer or an actor or a stage manager, you are trying to express the complications of life through…

— Lee Hall

Every performance is different. There are so many factors involved... the people I've met that day, the weather, the city I'm in,…

— Dia Frampton

It's interesting because the way J.J. cuts - we're very close with our editors as well, so it's kind of the first…

— Bryan Burk

The life of any musician really doesn't fall into a normal schedule at all. Every week there are different rehearsals, different days…

— Leonard Slatkin

Everything I write is personal, really. Even when I'm sarcastic, it's quite personal. And on this record, from the production to the…

— Ben Folds

The success of the stock connect program and the increased market volatility means investors are looking for more products to access China…

— Andrew Sullivan

I'm in the action, but I'm not in the action. A lot of the interpreting I do sometimes borders on performance. It…

— Jack Jason

I am thrilled yet overwhelmed. There are so many great women athletes, some incredible performances.

— Nancy Greene

Before every performance, I think I am about to keel over.

— Brenda Blethyn

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

— Philip Massinger

A total commitment is paramount to reaching the ultimate in performance.

— Tom Flores

Claude Rains was what we call an actor's actor. He was very involved with himself and his performance.

— Gloria Stuart

Inability is often the mother of restriction, and restriction is the great mother of inventive performance.

— Holger Czukay

There is always tension in women's gymnastics between athleticism, grace, performance, and eros.

— Meghan O'Rourke

My relationship with shoes has always been linked to shoes, women, women in their shoes and performance.

— Christian Louboutin

Once they call you a Latin Lover, you're in real trouble. Women expect an Oscar performance in bed.

— Anonymous

I'm a performance artist first; I'm a recording artist second.

— Erykah Badu

I'm not in competition with anybody but myself. My goal is to beat my last performance.

— Celine Dion

Perceived self-efficacy influences the types of causal attributions people make for their performances

— Albert Bandura

We are a global society, and one does not have to be from Germany to give a great performance of Beethoven.

— Leonard Slatkin

I'm one of these people who would rather show you than tell you through the performance.

— Jeremy Piven

He who is ever brooding over result often loses nerve in the performance of his duty.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The best performances, are those that can be performed once.

— Brandon Sanderson