Live performance has always been my thing. It’s my purpose to master and capture the moment every time I have you connected. — Usher Copy Share Image
Trust is a powerful accelerator to performance and when trust goes up, speed also goes up while cost comes down - producing… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
We all perform. It's what we do for each other all the time, deliberately or unintionally. It's a way of telling about… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
If I can send one person home after a performance feeling better than when they arrived, then I've done my job, and… — Cyrus Chestnut Copy Share Image
To get greater than 100% return on a growth step, give up defensiveness. Defensiveness stifles performance, and destroys relationships. — Henry Cloud Copy Share Image
INTENTION, n. The mind's sense of the prevalence of one set of influences over another set; an effect whose cause is the… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
A great song can come from anybody. A great performance can come from anybody. It doesn't matter who you are, and that's… — G-Eazy Copy Share Image
Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
I think in running, to be honest, that even though athletes are very dedicated and are willing to train and do whatever… — Alberto Salazar Copy Share Image
The Musicians Union declared you couldn't mime on Top Of The Pops, which is obviously impossible, if you've got a studio-based record… — David Toop Copy Share Image
The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance”: “The differences between expert performers and normal adults are not immutable,… — K. Anders Ericsson Copy Share Image
A lot of festivals can be a jumble of electronic music and rock and roll, and everything's all mixed up - some… — Jenny O Copy Share Image
Historically, religious groups have been most effective when they have stood apart from government and critiqued the performance of government in light… — Edd Doerr Copy Share Image
Most people I meet are secretly convinced that they’re a little crazier than the average person. People understand the energy necessary to… — Keith Johnstone Copy Share Image
Emotional self-control is NOT the same as overcontrol, the stifling of all feeling and spontaneity…when such emotional suppression is chronic, it can… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
I believe in the city as a natural human environment, but we must humanize it. It's art that will re-define public space… — Antony Gormley Copy Share Image
Turkey wants to be treated by the same standards as other countries. If you compare us to some other newly accepted EU… — Recep Tayyip Erdogan Copy Share Image
It is not a virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue, when we are led to the performance of duty… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I imagined that it might be awkward to talk to your wife about her performance, so going into it I was a… — Lasse Hallstrom Copy Share Image
Many people think of me as a perfectionist, someone who polishes and shines each song and performance. I've always been bothered by… — Phil Collins Copy Share Image
That action is not warrantable which either fears to ask the divine blessing on its performance, or having succeeded, does not come… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
It's partly the Southernization of America, in that the Southern working-class version of redneck is becoming the national version, and it's good-natured,… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
Rob Lowe, who I thought was really good in the movie [ Bad Influence], had his performance overshadowed by this sort of… — Curtis Hanson Copy Share Image
I like noise. It's always puzzled me why one of the goals of contemporary recording is to get rid of noise and… — Moby Copy Share Image
Employers crave the power to fire workers whose performance is judged inferior-not just to get rid of those particular workers, but more… — Jim Stanford Copy Share Image
A live performance is the same no matter what genre it is. Wrestling, rock 'n roll, hosting, acting - it's the same… — Chris Jericho Copy Share Image
Nothing we formulate or do can qualify us for access to God. Only grace can do that- based not on our performance… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Anyway, in my performance style, I'm a singer-songwriter. People can call it neo-soul or R&B or whatever. But at the core, when… — India.Arie Copy Share Image
Hyun Joong brother always prays SS501 WILL BE FOREVER ONE so we always try our best to make our performances cool. — Kim Kyu-jong Copy Share Image
When I go onstage, I'm going to work ...I feel like my performance is about an emotional connection. I want to connect… — Boy George Copy Share Image
A big fear of working with an actor that's never been a lead in a film before is that you're going to… — Sean Durkin Copy Share Image
There's always room for improvement. I'm always focused on the results, and those are the precise things that I don't really experience… — Ariel Pink Copy Share Image
In the minds of great managers, consistent poor performance is not primarily a matter of weakness, stupidity, disobedience, or disrespect. It is… — Marcus Buckingham Copy Share Image
I'm trying to create flesh architecture. I aim to get a sculptural feel for groups of bodies, as well as create performance… — Spencer Tunick Copy Share Image
There are performances in which the people who have the best muscle skills and musical history may be on the stage, but… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
People come up to me as I leave the stage after a performance and tell me tey saw my mother onstage with… — Lorna Luft Copy Share Image
Lots of people I know have bootlegged tapes of performances and if they play it I will be transported back sometimes with… — Chris Bailey Copy Share Image
I went back to the Art Institute, then spent the summer at the Ox-Bow School in Saugatuck, Michigan. That's what really awakened… — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
I learned that I was either crazy in love with you, or putting on the best performance of my life.' -Nora (PG… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
...the reader who plucks a book from her shelf only once is as deprived as the listener who, after attending a single… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image