Performances Quotes · Page 11

The measure of performance of any given agent is the amount of money it accumulates through its actions.

— John Henry Holland

Remember your six P's - Perfect Practice Prevents Piss Poor Performance.

— Chuck Knox

Life is a play.It's not its length,but its performance that counts.

— Seneca the Younger

You go for the quality of the performance, not the longevity of it.

— Don King

The only real difference between one organization and another is the performance of its people.

— Peter Drucker

I tend to lose my performance energy the longer things go on for, so I'm always best on the very first take.

— Peter Sarsgaard

Flying prevails whenever a man and his airplane are put to a test of maximum performance.

— Richard Bach

Self-consciousness can destroy a performance. Getting rid of that is always good.

— Joe Dempsie

God is more concerned about your heart than your performance. If your heart is right, your performance will eventually catch up.

— Joyce Meyer

I went to art school for fine art and then I started doing performance art, and then I started making fun of…

— Mary Lynn Rajskub

The reality is that no group of countries has any grounds for complacency about its own human rights performance and no group…

— Kofi Annan

Do not waste a minute - not a second - in trying to demonstrate to others the merits of your performance. If…

— Thomas Wentworth Higginson

I definitely loved going on stage, I loved the nervous feeling and the performance and the doing-ness of it. It always felt…

— Sean Astin

Performancism is the mindset that equates our identity and value directly with our performance and accomplishments.

— Tullian Tchividjian

A few performances have been left out of the various Woodstock soundtracks and film edits over the years, most notably The Grateful…

— Shawn Amos

35mm film isn't ticking away so it's subconscious - performances are allowed to breathe in a much more real way I think.

— Andy Serkis

I learned early on that it's heartbreaking to - there's the editor that comes in, and then they have to craft the…

— Tavis Smiley

Speaking for myself, but [Kriota] probably [agrees], I don't do different things because I have to, but certainly my career's taken a…

— Robert Sikoryak

One of the problems of a director on the set is that we become overwhelmed by all the factors and threads of…

— Whit Stillman

Heath Ledger's performance in 'The Dark Knight' quite simply changed the game. He raised the bar not just for actors in superhero…

— Tom Hiddleston

A few people said to me on the UK tour 'that feeling you're feeling is natural. Everyone feels nerves. But, you've got…

— Ladyhawke

Talent grips us. We are overtaken by the beauty of Michelangelo's sculpture, riveted by Mariah Carey's angelic voice, doubled over in laughter…

— John C. Maxwell

I have many enemies and they all think I'm being highfalutin calling it performance, but the word "reading" has a connotation of…

— T.C. Boyle

Whereas a good player might do something really good in a game, a great player might do something two or three times…

— Warren Gatland

Once committed to an attack, fly in at full speed. After scoring crippling or disabling hits, I would clear myself and then…

— Erich Hartmann

People ask, 'Why would you cast yourself in your movie?' And, for me, it's more like an achievement that I am now…

— Miranda July

I'm not very comfortable with watching my performances. I don't particularly find a great joy in it. Everything is the process of…

— Pierce Brosnan

An interesting difference between new and experienced stage managers is that the new stage manager thinks of running the show as the…

— Laurence Sterne

When I have a writing workshop, I like to have people that are anthropologists and people who are poking around in other…

— Sandra Cisneros

I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the very…

— Jane Austen

Losing ... really does say something about who you are. Among other things it measures are: do you blame others, or do…

— Lance Armstrong

We delude ourselves if we believe that skilled behavior is easy, that it can come about without effort. We forget the years…

— Donald A. Norman

Leaders set high standards. Refuse to tolerate mediocrity or poor performance.

— Brian Tracy

The best performance advice I have ever been given was to "Know where your light is, onstage."

— Vaginal Davis

High performance leaders create an inspiring future by connecting with a classic and honorable past.

— Andy Hargreaves

I got into the studio when I was thirteen. At the age of twelve I was doing public performances.

— Chingy

Quality is more than a promise, it's genuine performance.

— Ron Kaufman

I don't really unwind after a performance. I'm still pumped up and just want to get back on stage.

— Hollie Cavanagh

The Olympics is where you see out of this world performances, isn't it?

— Mark Cavendish

When we ... devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty, ihen happiness comes of itself.

— Wilhelm von Humboldt