Performances Quotes · Page 24

Take a minute: look at your goals, look at your performance, see if your behavior matches your goals.

— Ken Blanchard

You can't really watch a theater performance by yourself. You can watch a movie by yourself, though.

— Cate Blanchett

Basically this is what you want - a high performance machine that idiots can run.

— Keith Rabois

When all the performances are excellent, critics understand it's the direction.

— Joel Siegel

I'm not a performance artist or any of that, I'm not out to please anyone. Just me.

— GG Allin

There is no better education than rap battling in terms of performance. It makes you fearless.

— Doc Brown

I have never had a single positive doping test, and I do not take performance-enhancing drugs.

— Lance Armstrong

It's true, spectacular preparation always precedes spectacular performance.

— Zig Ziglar

Clearly, the pleasures wines afford are transitory - but so are those of the ballet, or of a musical performance. Wine is…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I was definitely a fan of Robert Patricks character in T2. I was just really awed by his performance and the complete…

— Kristanna Loken

I'm inspired by good work. Whether it is a great performance by another actor, a piece of art, or someone doing something…

— Mateus Ward

A half-century before Madonna, Gypsy [Rose Lee] understood how to make performance out of desire, how to exploit the very human and…

— Karen Abbott

Sponsors obviously care more about a ninety-second commercial and want to pay you more than any guest star gets for a ninety-minute…

— Barbara Stanwyck

Leadership is the art of creating a working climate that inspires others to achieve extraordinary goals and levels of performance.

— John Michael Montgomery

That's what really makes great skating competitions. When you have two top skaters in good form giving superb performances.

— Dick Button

I was charmed by a performance given by Crowded House at Toronto's Massey Hall where the bass player broke a string.

— Alannah Myles

Sometimes you write passages that don't need to be rewritten. Performance is that for me. Improvisation, things that happen in the moment,…

— Patti Smith

Let's make it clear for the dimmest bulbs among you: the kids at Columbine High didn't die from too many guns, they…

— L. Neil Smith

In acting, you are fulfilled if you give justice to your role... if you are able to do a credible performance and…

— Timothy Hutton

In solitude, at last, we’re able to let God define us the way we are always supposed to be defined—by relationship: the…

— Richard Rohr

Writing and singing does give me some kind of release from the demons of my past, it is a therapy of sorts,…

— Michelle Shocked

Of course, the age-old tradition that a star must appear even if he or she is practically dying is an excellent one,…

— Noel Coward

After conducting a concert in a small town, I once received the following note from a farmer who had attended the performance:…

— Arturo Toscanini

Great men, Till they have gained their ends, are giants in Their promises, but, those obtained, weak pigmies In their performance. And…

— Philip Massinger

I love surprising people with a present or a gift or a stage performance or anything.

— Michael Jackson

The sixth Harry Potter film - I don't like my performance in that film at all.

— Daniel Radcliffe

Strive for excellence in few things, rather than good performance in many.

— Richard Koch

I'd like to be remembered a little bit for my performances.

— Francesca Hayward

Ive always been really inspired by watching top athletes putting in peak performances.

— Manu Bennett

Your self-image controls your performance; see yourself as confident and in complete control

— Brian Tracy

... the worst possible heritage to leave with children: high spiritual pretensions and low performance.

— Anonymous

I think that there's only one nationality and one language in the sport, and you call it performance.

— Wladimir Klitschko

You must learn to translate wisdom and strong feelings into labor.

— Jim Rohn

The audience, the place youre in, has everything to do with how your performance goes.

— Kevin Spacey

Promises may get friends, but it is performance that must nurse and keep them.

— Owen Feltham

In any racing engine, the nearer you are to it disintegrating, the better it's performance will be

— Keith Duckworth

You must put your head into the lion's mouth if the performance is to be a success.

— Winston Churchill

Sometimes colleagues in performance are absolutely astonishing.

— Stephen Sondheim

I had to learn how to modulate my performances and interpretations of these roles in auditions for the camera.

— Zachary Quinto

Being around the energy of new people is wonderful. It only lifts my performance and makes it better.

— Nicky Whelan