I've always seemed to have my best performances when I'm under the most pressure. — Aaron Rodgers Copy Share Image
In programming when you're making a change you have to know all the affected places, and you have to be able to… — Bill Gates 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
When people ask me how they should approach performance, I always tell them the professional musician should aspire to the state of… — Yo-Yo Ma Copy Share Image
I realized [using my own voice] is what creates the performance in the performance art and that's what helps creates the distance… — Kalup Linzy Copy Share Image
Everybody uses mime and gesture in real life, though we don't realize it. It's very useful as a performance technique, though it… — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
'Everything beautiful occurs when the body / is suspended,' Helena Mesa quotes a performance artist who hangs his own pierced body in… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
Typography is to literature as musical performance is to composition: an essential act of interpretation, full of endless opportunities for insight or… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
The white audiences thought I was white, my features being what they are, and at every performance I'd have to take off… — Ethel Waters 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
I like street performance because it's garbage time. The subway is garbage time: no one can say I'm wasting their time because… — Kalan Sherrard Copy Share Image
Integrity is hard work. I do think the Internet makes it harder because of the temptations of performance. You can perform and… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
The most beautiful sight this earth affords is a man or woman so filled with love that duty is only a name,… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
Music and visual performance have to influence each other. Designers and musicians have to be the nexus of all things pop culture,… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
I always have to pretend I'm somebody else to give the best performance. It kind of feels like I'm acting; it's definitely… — Jessie Ware Copy Share Image
I was definitely a fan of Robert Patricks character in T2. I was just really awed by his performance and the complete… — Kristanna Loken Copy Share Image
One of the most memorable live performances of my career took place on the 2002 American Music Awards show when I had… — Tim McGraw Copy Share Image
My last public performance for money was in 1967. For free, it was 1972, with the exception of two little one-shot, one-song… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
I've always enjoyed and loved playing live. I relish and cherish it more than anything else because you never know what the… — Elton John Copy Share Image
We were doing performance art as far back as 1965, just not calling it that. — Joseph Jarman Copy Share Image
All but a few of the organizations do not specifically promise to deliver superior investment performance although it is perhaps not unreasonable… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The wish to be able to fly is to be understood as nothing else than a longing to be capable of sexual… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The theater is a baffling business, and a shockingly wasteful one when you consider that people who have proven their worth, who… — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
I had to help to coax the performances and I really enjoyed that extra responsibility. — Christopher Eccleston Copy Share Image
I was trying so hard. I would memorize the entire script, then I'd be lipping everybody's lines while they were talking. When… — Will Smith Copy Share Image