It takes stamina to get up like an athlete every single night, seven to eight performances a week, 20 weeks in a… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
All those awkward moments - that's on the cast for doing such an amazing job. I think it was funny on the… — Ti West Copy Share Image
In the performance of our responsibilities, I have learned that when we heed a silent prompting and act upon it without delay,… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
Though we have been stuffing them into classrooms and cubicles for decades, our brains actually were built to survive in jungles and… — John Medina Copy Share Image
Typical pay increases are not enough to motivate employees, but they are enough to irritate them. … Even when companies create seemingly… — Jeffrey Pfeffer Copy Share Image
I've been to almost every country in the world, and the most frustrating thing for me has been that my schedule has… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
Diffidence may check resolution and obstruct performance, but compensates its embarrassments by more important advantages; it conciliates the proud, and softens the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
As we at all times criticise the Premier for his management of home affairs, call Mr Butler a fool for his Budget,… — Margaret Hughes Copy Share Image
Every time an actress is celebrated for her great work, I cheer. For the more brilliant their performance, the more the audience… — Jessica Chastain 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
Clint Eastwood enables and allows things to happen. You walk on some sets and it's like walking into an emergency room. It's… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
Since nobody upstages Rudolph Giuliani, his will be a Broadway-class show, perhaps his final bravura performance before November 2000, when he hopes… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
Look at the product pipeline, look at the fantastic financial results we've had for the last five years. You only get that… — Steve Ballmer Copy Share Image
It's been a very remarkable year, and I feel very blessed. I lived an isolated lifestyle before the media. I lived a… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
I know never to take a wine for granted. Drawing a cork is like attendance at a concert or at a play… — Gerald Asher Copy Share Image
I used to struggle a lot with dwelling on how the day at work was, and I would dwell on my performance.… — Julia Stiles Copy Share Image
Test cricket is the only thing that counts. One-day and T20 performances are fine, but you rate a player by his status… — Suresh Raina Copy Share Image
Most businesses change in character and quality over the years, sometimes for the better, perhaps more often for the worse. The investor… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
It is difficult for young players to learn - because of the great emphasis on records - but, ideally, the joy and… — John Wooden Copy Share Image
Cognitive skills such as big-picture thinking and long-term vision were particularly important. But when I calculated the ratio of technical skills, IQ,… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
The part of the brain most affected by early stress is the prefrontal cortex, which is critical in self-regulatory activities of all… — Paul Tough Copy Share Image
I have the confidence that I can take anybody and have them give a good performance, because I don't think there's anything… — John Cassavetes Copy Share Image
I was very impressed with Hanson's performance. I thought that little drummer was a kick-ass drummer, and uh, that they sang great,… — Stevie Nicks Copy Share Image
Among the many inconsistencies which folly produces or infirmity suffers in the human mind, there has often been observed a manifest and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Performance's only life is in the present. Performance cannot be saved, recorded, documented, or otherwise participate in the circulation of representations of… — Peggy Phelan Copy Share Image
There's a real tension between it being a collaborative art process, which is almost like performance art of yourself, and, as we… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
But, working with directors whose history is in performance, I feel like there's a different kind of focus, as opposed to directors… — Bryce Dallas Howard Copy Share Image
Justification by religious performances, and meritorious deeds, is nothing better than the old Pharisaism with a Christian name stuck upon it. .… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I belong to that generation who, as students, had before their eyes, and were limited by, a horizon consisting of Marxism, phenomenology… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
I'm all about real drama, real performance, and real people, so my twist on this is: I'm creating a family, a brotherhood… — David Ayer Copy Share Image
I am credited with being one of the hardest workers and perhaps I am, if thought is the equivalent of labour, for… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
I want to single out Kathryn Hahn's performance in Jill Soloway's film 'Afternoon Delight,' which in my opinion should have been nominated… — Amy Landecker Copy Share Image
I think directors can be a little insensitive to how vulnerable an actor is, when he's giving a performance. Part of the… — Eric Balfour Copy Share Image
One does not avoid incompetence if one makes an attempt whose likelihood of success is too low. This seems little more than… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
Every day the word 'gift' is used to define talent, ability, and performance. Being gifted has an even deeper meaning, a meaning… — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
All the equity investors, in total, will surely bear a performance disadvantage per annum equal to the total croupiers' costs they have… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
I think we need to teach pleasure. What beautiful touch means. What reciprocity means. What being connected and what intimacy means. Boys… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
You know, for me, the realization that two people should have the right to form a sacred union regardless of their gender… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
[Washington, DC] feels like you're watching performance art. A lot of the time. I don't believe them, I don't believe what they… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
It is one of the few elements in the process that a director really, really can't control: an actor's performance. If you… — Jason Bateman Copy Share Image