Performances Quotes · Page 30

Performances have a bit of a life and a time scale to themselves.

— Sue Tompkins

The passion that transforms life, and art, did not seem to be mine.

— Josephine Hart

Generally speaking, individual performances don't win basketball games

— John Wooden

The same dynamics that promote performance also support learning and behavioral change.

— John Katzenbach

The best way to show respect to your fellow athletes is to give the best performance you can.

— Cheng Fei

It's not about thinking only about your great performances.

— Trinity Rodman

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

— Joshua Bell

True material welfare is never inconsistent with performance of religious obligations.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The passion that transforms life, and art, did not seem to be mine. But in all essentials, my life was a good…

— Josephine Hart

Stanley Kubrick was very selective when he went into a close-up. Every director has his taste in a performance, but Stanley would…

— Tom Cruise

Don Knotts won five Emmy Awards for Outstanding Performance in a Supporting Role by an Actor or Actress in a Series [in…

— Betty Lynn

The performance on the stage has its reasons in the performance induced in thousands of separate minds and this second performance is…

— Domenico Gnoli

All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance.

— Samuel Johnson

I already love acting and I love actors, so being able to communicate with actors and to bring performances out of them,…

— Eric Balfour

Coaching is unlocking a person's potential to maximize their own performance. It is helping them to learn rather than teaching them.

— Timothy Gallwey

Unless an action is rightly thought out and its steps rightly planned, every stage of its performance will probably remain vague and…

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Children, I always think, are just putting on a performance of being naive and not understanding anything. I have worked with children…

— Wallace Shawn

Sex is not a mechanical act that fails for lack of technique, and it is not a performance by the male for…

— Garrison Keillor

I am so excited to perform; I am so ready to perform; I love live performances! I think it's something so different…

— Claudia Lee

Pop stardom is not very compelling. I'm much more interested in a relationship between performer and audience that is of equals. I…

— Ani DiFranco

Fire in your belly comes from pride and passion in wearing the red shirt. We don't need to motivate players because each…

— Bill Shankly

To me, there were comedies that should go up for Oscars. I think Eddie Murphy in 'The Nutty Professor' was one of…

— Terry Crews

Trying to imagine E. M. Forster, who found Ulysses indecorous, at a London performance of Lenny Bruce—to which in fact he was…

— David Markson

Attempts are found in domains of human performance, such as sports, games, artistic domains, professional domains like medicine and the law, and…

— Ernest Sosa

When performance exceeds ambition, the overlap is called success.

— Cullen Hightower

I started out as a very traditional actor. The first thing I ever did in terms of performance was singing.

— Billy Eichner

Leadership Is Performance. You Have To Be Conscious Of Your Behavior, Because Everyone Else Is.

— Carly Fiorina

I try to see interviewing as performance art, and just take it as it comes.

— Liz Phair

Performance is a vehicle for entering different worlds of experiencing.

— Robert Fripp

I'm very self-conscious as an actor, with performances and things, and I don't like watching my own stuff.

— Matthew Lewis

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

— Utah Phillips

Only my performances will be able to prove what I can bring.

— Reece James

I am a huge fan of Jessica Lange. I think her performance in Grey Gardens is amazing.

— Boti Bliss

Early practice is vital so that performances became totally ingrained and flow from the subconscious.

— Earl Woods

Al Gore's performances could be a case study in abnormal-psychology classes.

— Rich Lowry

It's a lot easier to say you're a comic than a performance artist.

— Paul Reubens

I played more performances of 'Chris' in 'Miss Saigon' than anyone else.

— Will Chase

Boxing is not about your feelings. It's about performance.

— Manny Pacquiao

The script and the performances and the style all clicked.

— Edgar Wright

As long as that spark of passion is missing there is no human significance in the performance.

— Henry Miller