Arianna, your performance will actually improve if you can commit to not only working hard, but also unplugging, recharging and renewing yourself. — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
The performances I enjoy are the ones that are hard to read or ambiguous or left-of-centre because it makes you look closer… — Emily Blunt Copy Share Image
What you picture in your mind, your mind will go to work to accomplish. When you change your pictures you automatically change… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
If you go on stage with the wrong attitude, or something in your performance is off, you can lose an audience in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most of the performances I see on TV and in movies are so self-conscious and overacted. I would think a natural actress… — Mary Badham Copy Share Image
You'll see some great performances [in Fences]. And I'm not just saying that because I directed it either! You'll see! — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
Even when you feel as though everything is 100% it can still go wrong on the night (like in Melbourne!) so you… — Chris Hoy Copy Share Image
It is not uncommon to charge the difference between promise and performance, between profession and reality, upon deep design and studied deceit;… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I protest that we fans are being emotionally starved and frustrated by long periods of perfect performance of these batteries. More over,… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
The desire to maximize the number of winning trades (or minimize the number of losing trades) works against the trader. The success… — William Eckhardt Copy Share Image
I felt that let's understand that all these people are just human, even the advisors in the White House, they're just real… — Gerard Butler Copy Share Image
I love performing outside because it's as if the heavens are open and the elements become part of the stage show as… — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
James Taylor is the kind of person I always thought the word 'folksinger' referred to. He writes and sings songs that are… — Jon Landau Copy Share Image
As for poetry 'belonging' in the classroom, it's like the way they taught us sex in those old hygiene classes: not performance… — Jerome Rothenberg Copy Share Image
The truth is, an actor's performance is the result of work by a lot more people than just the actor. When you… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
I'm completely unlike a lot of other performers in the past who have been forgiven or come to terms with the real… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
Athletes these days are too robotic. People like to see performances filled with emotion. In my career I tried to be amusing,… — Daley Thompson Copy Share Image
If we're 15 minutes into a lifeless, redundant, status-based 1:1 and I don't have anything sitting in my back pocket, I'm going… — Rands Copy Share Image
When I'm preforming a lot I'm aching to get back in the studio but I love live performance. I love trying to… — Joel Plaskett Copy Share Image
It seems strange to make a priori arguments about the relative performance of governments and the markets in health care when there… — John Quiggin Copy Share Image
In the achievement of greater performances, of beating formidable rivals, the athlete defeats fear and conquers himself. — Franz Stampfl Copy Share Image
We are basically in the nicotine business. . . . Effective control of nicotine in our products should equate to a significant… — R. J. Reynolds Copy Share Image
I tend to a lot of improvisational ranting, and that's fun. For me, stand-up has been, performance-wise, a really good outlet. — Michael Showalter Copy Share Image
The test of character is not persistence when you expect a light at the end of the tunnel. The true test is… — James Arthur Ray Copy Share Image
I remember watching the Grammys and looking at the performances and crying to my mom, saying how much I wanted to be… — Christina Aguilera Copy Share Image
I learned a lot about acting - watching not just myself but other actors and learning how to distinguish between two great… — Ralph Fiennes Copy Share Image
I feel like this is the way I was meant to interact with acting. Which is as a director, and helping, working… — Lynn Shelton Copy Share Image
Magic is a performance, and a performance should have an honesty, a relevance and a resonance if it is to be offered… — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
Playing a character in a video game is different to other performances because your character can't lead the audience of players in… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
Some reviewers have read this as cynicism but I don't see it that way. When I say "I am so sick /… — Randall Mann Copy Share Image
A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have… — Vernon Jordan Copy Share Image
Wrestling is a performance. Its entertainment, we [wrestlers] tell stories. We make our fans happy by telling stories but the long and… — John Cena Copy Share Image
I want to get down to the nuts and bolts of what is actually going to change to lift New Zealands economic… — David Cunliffe Copy Share Image
Both renunciation of action and the performance of action lead to Nirvana (Liberation); but these performance of action is superior to renunciation… — Chinmayananda Saraswati Copy Share Image
The Yuppies are not defectors from revolt, they are a new race, assured, amnestied, exculpated, moving with ease in the world of… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Yes, for me audio-visual performance has its roots in my experience working as an improvising musician and composer. — Kurt Ralske Copy Share Image
I do like to collaborate, and I like hearing other people, and I like how somebody's performance will affect my own. — Joaquin Phoenix Copy Share Image
I've done performances in movies that I was immensely proud of and the movies didn't take off like a rocket at Cape… — Albert Brooks Copy Share Image
For the actors, there's something very important about that first showing of the scene to the crew, becomes like a little performance. — Ewan McGregor Copy Share Image
When you get to the big leagues, you need to take potential and turn it into performance. You want to be the… — Travis Hafner Copy Share Image