How you run the race - your planning, preparation, practice, and performance - counts for everything. Winning or losing is a by-product,… — John Wooden Copy Share Image
The history of all times and nations teaches us that exactly in the naïve, unshakable belief, furnished by religion in active life… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
Let every man consider virtue as what devolves on himself. He may not yield the performance of it even to his teacher. — Confucius Copy Share Image
I believe so much in the power of performance I don't want to convince people. I want them to experience it and… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
I don't ever want to stick myself in one category. I do really love making movies, but the thing about live performances… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
It provokes the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery:… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Most businesses change in character and quality over the years, sometimes for the better, perhaps more often for the worse. The investor… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
If you give it good concentration, good energy, good heart and good performance, the song will play you. — Levon Helm Copy Share Image
The basic difference between classical music and jazz is that in the former the music is always graver than its performance -… — Andre Previn Copy Share Image
I think that theater is a unique way to communicate with people as they gather together with other people they may not… — Pearl Cleage Copy Share Image
We all perform. It's what we do for each other all the time, deliberately or unintionally. It's a way of telling about… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
Benchmark your performance against your best competitors. Think how you can beat them next time. — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
By age seven, I used to comb my hair for performances, just pull my hair up into a bun. Granted, it wasn't… — Janet Jackson Copy Share Image
Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance. . . .… — James Bryant Conant Copy Share Image
I am honored to be selected as Canada's flag bearer for the closing ceremony of the 2006 Olympic Winter Games. Over the… — Cindy Klassen Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
All the things you can talk about in anyone's work are the things that are least important.... You can describe all the… — Edward Gorey Copy Share Image
The only difference with wrestling is we're like a live performance. So we're feeding off the audience and if they do't like… — Adam Cole Copy Share Image
It's disheartening that animal people criticize societies that enlist the help of actors or organize creative acts like 'I'd rather go naked… — Adela Popescu Copy Share Image
The only acting you ever see at the Oscars is when people act like they’re not mad they lost. Nicole Kidman was… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
Great individuals and great performances build a team, which produces brilliant performances. — Sachin Tendulkar Copy Share Image
The techniques of different directors are very different, and people have different ways of expressing ideas in film. I'm happiest when working… — Howard Shore Copy Share Image
After six or seven performances of any song, you begin to perform it rather than feel it. — Graham Nash Copy Share Image
Never think that success is down to your own performance alone. If you start listening only to yourself you take the first… — Michael Schumacher Copy Share Image
It's always been you know, religion that has been the primary impediment to actual relationship with God, because it creates a mythology… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
