Performances Quotes · Page 26

If you're taking performance-enhancing drugs and you get caught, in my mind, you should be banned for life.

— Michael Bisping

Playing in Milan is never easy because the San Siro always commands great performances.

— Massimiliano Allegri

High expectations and belief in people leads to high performance so very often belief creates fact.

— Paul Hersey

Life is rather like acting lessons while you are on stage giving a public performance!

— Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet

A lot of players think the game is all about individual performances when it's really all about a team game.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

The only excuse for not coming to a class or a performance is death.

— Stella Adler

Piano performances by Condoleezza Rice are better than Hitler's paintings.

— Evgeni Kostitsyn

I think a lot of teachers want to talk about how to continually improve performance.

— Barack Obama

One thing you learn doing magic tricks for a living is how close every performance of every magic trick is to disaster.…

— Penn Jillette

Stick with your own perception of yourself-living in your own world-and letting your reality, not the reality presented by other people or…

— John Eliot

When we liberate the economic potential of women, we elevate the economic performance of communities, nations, and the world.

— Hillary Clinton

Peak performance begins with your taking complete responsibility for your life and everything that happens to you.

— Brian Tracy

I often teach a graduate theater seminar on Greek tragedy in performance. I usually begin by saying that no matter what technological…

— Neil Patrick Harris

People have mistaken my break, I took a break from competition, it was because of mental problems, and because I was not…

— Georges St-Pierre

History sometimes acts as madly as heredity, and her most unpredictable performances are often her most glorious.

— Rebecca West

I heard some interesting things about your performance up here." "I hear interesting things about your 'performance' all the time Doug, but…

— Richelle Mead

The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness; a non performance of that…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I also learned to tell a story. I think I learned from poetry how to time a story. Poetry's timing, beats and…

— Sandra Cisneros

Physiologists and high-performance trainers understand now that the concept of 110 percent is no longer a smart way to train. Fitness is…

— Sally Jenkins

As much as it's nice to step into that massive world of Hollywood and be a big, famous actor, I prefer the…

— Idris Elba

I love storytelling, you know, beyond anything. I love a great story beyond a great performance. Storytelling is about what we all…

— Jake Gyllenhaal

Yoga, an ancient but perfect science, deals with the evolution of humanity. This evolution includes all aspects of one's being, from bodily…

— B.K.S. Iyengar

Fear is the strongest driving-force in competition. Not fear of one's opponent, but of the skill and high standard which he represents;…

— Franz Stampfl

Research can be interesting, but it can be pointless as well. The realities of making a movie often are not conducive with…

— Christian Bale

Your performance gets you promoted. It doesn't matter if you're brown, back or white.

— Geraldo Rivera

no work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps.

— Uta Hagen

Some directors cast you because they trust you to do the performance - but then they forget to direct you.

— Samantha Morton

I started off in a small theatre performance company and worked my way into commercials.

— Devon Sawa

We are very excited about the diversity of artists and performances.

— John Wilkes

You mustn't judge a politician by talk. You have to judge them by performance.

— Milton Friedman

How you measure the performance of your managers directly affects the way they act.

— Gustave Flaubert

“A procession is a participants' journey, while a parade is a performance with an audience.”

— Rebecca Solnit

We have a no puke rule. The purpose is performance, not puking.

— Jeff Galloway

To me travel is triple delight: anticipation, performance, and recollection.

— Ilka Chase

Let today's strong performance be your starting point for tomorrow.

— Ron Kaufman

I think there are a lot of celebrities who put on a performance on camera.

— Anderson Cooper

I did 'Roadies,' a reality show, and dance performances from time to time.

— Esha Deol

Wealth is not determined by investment performance, but by investor behavior.

— Nick Murray

Good performance is about what you take in, not what you put out.

— Livingston Taylor

I like to read what people are saying about my performances. With that, I can try to get better.

— Fred