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
A good or great performance is like peeling an onion; in every scene you reveal another layer, something the audience hasn't seen… — Larry Moss 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
We were on a tour, and there were some chord formations that were tough for me to play when I was a… — Jorma Kaukonen Copy Share Image
Comedians work great as actors because they're good under pressure. With a lot of actors, you have to make them feel like… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
If I had my brothers I think with just a little bit of the correct marketing, I'd like to be almost exclusively… — Terry Bozzio Copy Share Image
As long as Elton John can bring forth one performance per album on the order of 'Someone Saved My Life Tonight,' the… — Jon Landau Copy Share Image
For me, the most important thing is the element of chance that is built into a live performance. The very great drawback… — Aaron Copland Copy Share Image
Right before I went to Pacifica, I had written and performed a one-woman show and I consider that to be my original… — Kelly Carlin-McCall Copy Share Image
It's part of my responsibility, as an actor who has been lucky enough to have this job, to take my job very… — Eric Stonestreet Copy Share Image
The feelings of being in the audience and being on the podium are very far apart. When you're onstage and something goes… — George Benjamin Copy Share Image
“Undoubtedly our Heavenly Father tires of expressions of love in words only. He has made it clear through his prophets and his… — Marvin J. Ashton Copy Share Image
Sometimes when you're making a film and something happens during a scene that you've just thought of, it can be missed if… — Ray Winstone Copy Share Image
Johnny Depp's performance is quite remarkable. Sweeney's desire for revenge and the simmering anger and hurt that he feels carry the story… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
Mutual fund managers are trapped in this rather deadly vicious circle: the more successful they are, the more money flows into their… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
Truly what the Emmys are about are the machine behind them, and Oscars are the same way, where if you have a… — Christopher Judge Copy Share Image
The performance of buggery is no more inevitable a part of homosexuality than an orange syllabub is an inevitable part of a… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
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Classical stuff takes a lot of rehearsal time and preparation, but with stuff that involves improvisation, you can over-rehearse it and it… — John Zorn Copy Share Image
The performances that I love are ones like Gena Rowlands in 'A Woman Under the Influence,' where women are allowed to be… — Kirsten Dunst Copy Share Image
I enjoyed Jonathan Franzen's 'Freedom.' Would I make that into a film? I think it's better suited to television. That would very… — Peter Weir Copy Share Image
Comedy is the only form of entertainment where the audience doesn't know what to expect. In an evening, you might get ten… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
Even people that know Johnny Cash's music really well and know that he was married don't really know that much about June… — Reese Witherspoon Copy Share Image
The very foundation of our science is only an inference; far the whole of it rests an the unprovable assumption that, all… — William Morris Davis Copy Share Image
I have discovered that I cannot enhance anybody's performance without getting them not only to live with the butterflies that come with… — John Eliot Copy Share Image
While I was coaching, I believe the motivation talk I gave my players that achieved the best results was in reference to… — Bill Sharman Copy Share Image
It is not a dreamlike state, but the somehow insulated state, that a great musician achieves in a great performance. He's aware… — Arnold Palmer Copy Share Image
But weightier still are the contentment which comes from work well done, the sense of the value of science for its own… — Lawrence Joseph Henderson Copy Share Image
A top-quartile teacher will increase the performance of their class - based on test scores - by over 10 percent in a… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I think 'SNL' is so well-known for its musical performances, as well, and people really breaking into America through a really great… — Kimbra Copy Share Image
I am singing in an operatic voice for the public, to bring something more to Rock and Roll. Because in a Rock… — Klaus Nomi Copy Share Image
When law enforcers are shown to have such unswerving integrity, only the most churlish among us would question the methods they use… — Donna Woolfolk Cross Copy Share Image
The confidence you need is belief in your potential. If you see world-class potential in yourself, you'll put in the effort. If… — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
Anthony Mackie in 'The Hurt Locker' is everything an actor can hope to be. So rock steady in his portrayal that you… — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
What really sells a fight, and any kind of action, is the performance of it. If someone is uncomfortable or uncertain about… — Zoe Bell Copy Share Image
On stage you never watch yourself. You just experience it, and then you go home, and you feel pretty good if you… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
The great challenge to management today is to make productive the tremendous new resource, the knowledge worker. This, rather than the productivity… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
When you haven't found inner meaning, you will always substitute outer performance. It's the only way to fill that void, that sense… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Being the first mid-size SUV for the brand, Dodge Nitro had to personify the bold, powerful and street-smart attitude of Dodge. In… — George Murphy Copy Share Image
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