We used to moralize; today we normalize, and performance anxiety is the secular version of our old religious guilt. — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
Every time you compete, try harder to improve on your last performance. Give nothing short of your very best effort. — Elgin Baylor Copy Share Image
I didn't want to feel like I was mimicking or copying someone else's performance, whether it's subconscious or not. — Aidan Turner Copy Share Image
Animal abusers are not the only culprits - the consumers are the biggest abusers! As long as buyers, users, attendees at animal… — Adela Popescu Copy Share Image
If you take my performance or my understanding of the role and my appreciation for story and then dress it in CGI,… — Vin Diesel Copy Share Image
I hope my recordings of my own works won't inhibit other people's performances. The brutal fact is that one doesn't always get… — Aaron Copland Copy Share Image
Talking to actors is the same as talking to any other artists; it's getting into the moment for them, and making sure… — Jennifer Yuh Nelson Copy Share Image
Good engineering is characterized by gradual, stepwise refinement of products that yields increased performance under given constraints and with given resources. — Niklaus Wirth Copy Share Image
Sometimes when family members least deserve love, they need it most. Love is not appropriately expressed in threats, accusations, expressions of disappointment,… — Marvin J. Ashton Copy Share Image
I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity,… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
Accepting the key premise that the learner is the primary customer of schooling means others follow naturally. ... The core business of… — David Hood Copy Share Image
When I play, I open up. I'm in the heat of the performance and it's a healing thing. It's great! It's like… — Matt Nathanson Copy Share Image
Any parent who tells their kids that they can't attend a school play or go to a soccer match because they have… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
Honey lamb, there are a lot of things in this world I feel insecure about. Religion. Our national economic policies. What color… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
The apex of perfection in equestrian art is not an exhibition of a great deal of different airs and movements by the… — Nuno Oliveira Copy Share Image
Dear to us are those who love us... but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I wasn't one of those hideous children who make their parents sit through hour-long performances when you're seven. I didn't do anything… — Jo Brand Copy Share Image
It's always about wanting to one-up myself from the day before. There's never an absolute 100% perfect performance, but going out and… — Cat Osterman Copy Share Image
Sometimes when I don't want to cry, I cry. And when I want to I can't. It's subconscious. Like sexual performance. — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
The part that I felt most comfortable with going in was just working with actors and trying to make them feel comfortable… — Jennifer Westfeldt Copy Share Image
Money can extinguish intrinsic motivation, diminish performance, crush creativity, encourage unethical behavior, foster short-term thinking, and become addictive. — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
The worst thing that can happen is that the effect that they create behind you is bigger than the performance you're putting… — Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa Copy Share Image
If you're always in a hurry, always trying to get ahead of the other guy, or someone else's performance is what motivates… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
My dear sisters, do not pray for tasks equal to your abilities, but pray for abilities equal to your tasks. Then the… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
Sometimes the ensemble 'Eighth Blackbird' will have performances and invite me to be a featured soloist. I think that is what they… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
As lovely as people are to me about my performance, I'm still a huge critic. I like very little of what I… — Daniel Gillies Copy Share Image
Jazz exemplifies artistic activity that is at once individual and communal, performance that is both repetitive and innovative, each participant sometimes providing… — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
Puppets are pure form then ideas for performance come out of that. It's always the form and the visuals and that's why… — Wayne White Copy Share Image
It is tragic that we have lost one of our nation's finest actors in the prime of his life. Heath Ledger's diverse… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
Of the One O'Clock Lab Band after hearing their performance, and sitting in with them at the White House: "I wish it… — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
I had serious performance stage fright. I kept my singing to the confines of my shower and car, while doing the dishes,… — Michelle Chamuel Copy Share Image
There's one thing you can't download and that's a live performance. And I know how to put on a show, and enjoy… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
I want to experience a performance on all levels - I want goose bumps and I want to leave the movie or… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
When you are new to the business, you think if you give a really bad performance, that's one they will print. You… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whenever I do a performance I always hope it is the best day of my life. Sometimes it happens and sometimes it… — Hiromi Copy Share Image
Everybody thinks performance capture is about thrashing around and doing a lots of movement, but it's actually about being able to contain… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
Pay close attention to detail in whatever it is you are doing. Be specific and expect quality from your performance. — Robert Cheeke Copy Share Image
Earlier this month the State Department gave the umpteenth performance of its popular play, Please Tread on Me, with Ceylon as guest… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
Performance art is going to be the future. Plays on Broadway are so restricted. But performance art is like haikus, just one… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
The ephemeral nature of live performance is the part I love most - it's a monk's sand painting, carefully constructed, then wiped… — Rosanne Cash Copy Share Image
