Stage performance is obviously a much grander sort of depiction. The audience isn't right in your face as close as a camera… — Amanda Schull Copy Share Image
We will not achieve high performance in education if we replace teachers with machines or turn teachers into machines. — Andy Hargreaves Copy Share Image
If we should tell ourselves the truth, all things being equal, President Jonathan will be re-elected with minimal stress, because of his… — Orji Uzor Kalu Copy Share Image
One of the biggest challenges in my job is letting go of the movie once you go home at night, and knowing… — Amber Heard Copy Share Image
The act of creation, as you very well know, is a lonely and private matter and has nothing to do with the… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
We should remember that it is quite as much a part of friendship to be delicate in its demands as to be… — John Frederick Boyes Copy Share Image
I was trying so hard. I would memorize the entire script, then I'd be lipping everybody's lines while they were talking. When… — Will Smith Copy Share Image
I still get really nervous, though, before each performance. It kind of hits about 15 minutes before we go onstage - sometimes… — Alison Lohman Copy Share Image
If all individuals were conditioned to machine efficiency in the performance of their duties there would have to be at least one… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Marriage was created not to be a background but to need one. Mine is going to be outstanding. It can't, shan't be… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I've been looking at some video clips on YouTube of President Obama, then candidate Obama, going through Iowa making promises. I think… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
I believe the time will come when the whole definition of pop music will change. It will get to the point where… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
Reggie Watts is a most unusual talent: a huge vocal range, a natural musicality, and a sidesplitting wit. Is he a comedian?… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Questions are far more effective than defensive statements. They do not imply agreement, but they do convey interest and a desire to… — Stephen Young Copy Share Image
All companies have a culture, some companies have discipline, but few companies have a culture of discipline. When you have disciplined people,… — James C. Collins Copy Share Image
There was a three hour differential in performances because the sponsor insisted it be done live for California. You would go on… — Dick York Copy Share Image
The .350 hitter expects, and also deserves, a big payoff for his performance - even if he plays for a cellar-dwelling team.… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Maybe it's a form of overcompensation, but whenever I've toured, I've always needed a huge performance component. — Moby Copy Share Image
Keep the boss aware. Bosses, after all, are held responsible by their own bosses for the performance of their subordinates. They must… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
I write a song to be recorded. And to some extent to be performed, but definitely more to be recorded than performed,… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
To understand is to experience harmony between what we aim at and what is given, between the intention and the performance -… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
The foreign players seem to be reveling in the European games and they've put in some massive performances for us. (on Liverpool) — Steven Gerrard Copy Share Image
I still do my comedy and my performance stuff and my acting so it's not all-consuming. But I do find myself drawing… — Billy Connolly Copy Share Image
Sometimes when I see a performance that really takes me, I struggle. How can I express this to this person, I want… — John Astin Copy Share Image
Talent is not enough. It's an important component in a successful performance, but it's really only a starting point. — Tony DiCicco Copy Share Image
I lose myself in my performances so I wouldn't say that I ever act on stage. I don't find it to be… — Christina Aguilera Copy Share Image
No performance is worth loss of geniality. 'Tis a cruel price we pay for certain fancy goods called fine arts and philosophy. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Excesses are essentially gestures. It is easy to be extremely cruel, magnanimous, humble or self-sacrificing when we see ourselves as actors in… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
We used to moralize; today we normalize, and performance anxiety is the secular version of our old religious guilt. — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
Every time you compete, try harder to improve on your last performance. Give nothing short of your very best effort. — Elgin Baylor Copy Share Image
I didn't want to feel like I was mimicking or copying someone else's performance, whether it's subconscious or not. — Aidan Turner Copy Share Image
Animal abusers are not the only culprits - the consumers are the biggest abusers! As long as buyers, users, attendees at animal… — Adela Popescu Copy Share Image
I hope my recordings of my own works won't inhibit other people's performances. The brutal fact is that one doesn't always get… — Aaron Copland Copy Share Image
If you take my performance or my understanding of the role and my appreciation for story and then dress it in CGI,… — Vin Diesel Copy Share Image
A mockingbird... was heard to blend the songs of 32 different kinds of birds into a 10 minute performance, a virtuoso display… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Misbeliefs in one's inefficacy may retard development of the very subskills upon which more complex performances depend — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
So I'm one of the few celebrities that got to do a repeat performance on 'The Simpsons,' which I'm very flattered by. — Al Yankovic Copy Share Image
Talking to actors is the same as talking to any other artists; it's getting into the moment for them, and making sure… — Jennifer Yuh Nelson Copy Share Image
Good engineering is characterized by gradual, stepwise refinement of products that yields increased performance under given constraints and with given resources. — Niklaus Wirth Copy Share Image
I wasn't one of those hideous children who make their parents sit through hour-long performances when you're seven. I didn't do anything… — Jo Brand Copy Share Image