Performances Quotes · Page 18

Tomorrow never really comes, so todays performance is what really counts.

— Bill Sharman

My favorite thing that God gives is grace. It is without performance, free in Christ.

— Luci Swindoll

Mastery has been achieved when one neither makes a mistake nor hesitates in the performance.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Focus on performance. Outcome is going to happen. No stress about that. Focus on performance.

— Dustin Poirier

I'm not really the type of person that can sit and watch my own performances.

— Jodie Whittaker

We perform the show for the people that are in the room and then that performance is theirs forever and ever.

— Michael Urie

The Emmy should be an ensemble award, too. I kept howling at everyone else's performances.

— Jeffrey Tambor

I had to help to coax the performances and I really enjoyed that extra responsibility.

— Christopher Eccleston

While fund performance is unpredictable, the impact of fees is not, .. A 1- percent annual fee will reduce an ending account…

— Arthur Levitt Jr

I've decided as an actor the only, the power I have really is in the performance. It's the only real place I…

— Jake Gyllenhaal

I'm passionate about nature and the respect, peace, and beauty I derive from it. My voice, my live performance, and when I'm…

— Taylor Dane

I think when you have a good warm up you feel good about your performance. You know that you've trained so mentally…

— Keauna McLaughlin

Yul Brynner's performance in "The King and I," . . . can no longer be regarded as a feat of acting or…

— Frank Rich

People most strenuously seek to evaluate performance by comparing themselves to others, not by using absolute standards.

— Leon Festinger

I opened the show with this line: "I have decided to give the greatest performance of my life! Oh, wait, sorry, that's…

— Steve Martin

At the end of each day, you should play back the tapes of your performance. The results should either applaud you or…

— Jim Rohn

Home gigs can be hard because it's an odd collision. More than anything, I feel self-conscious when my family are in the…

— Dylan Moran

I'm kind of happy to know there may be some kid or teenager now who might never have had the chance to…

— John Lloyd Young

I don't come to work as an actor. There are many directors who can direct without ever having acted and do a…

— Abdellatif Kechiche

It's impossible to say that live art enjoys any single status in the information age--there are versions of live art that are…

— Philip Auslander

One time, the homie Venus[-X] read me; we were on the phone and she was like, "Girl, you keep wearing jeans and…

— Le1f

My books and records are arranged according to subject, and within each subject, they're alphabetical by author or artist. The music tapes…

— George Carlin

And treating poetry as a performing art emphasizes its ephemerality. A printed poem can be endlessly reprinted, photocopied, scanned, uploaded, cut and…

— James Arthur

I worked with creative people who were very demanding of me, and they helped me reach performances that I never could have…

— Ricky Schroder

In the mid-1980s, operating problems took [nuclear] plants off-line so often that, on an annual basis, they operated at only about 55…

— Daniel Yergin

To our real, naked selves there is not a thing on earth or in heaven worth dying for. It is only when…

— Eric Hoffer

“That’s why I like to listen to Schubert while I’m driving. Like I said, it’s because all the performances are imperfect. A…

— Haruki Murakami

An employer has no business with a man's personality. Employment is a specific contract calling for a specific performance... Any attempt to…

— Peter Drucker

You must create the character's internal life. What do I mean by internal life? I mean the thoughts, feelings, memories, and inner…

— Larry Moss

The cast, staff, and crew of a live theater work together toward a common goal: a good performance. Thus, theater is necessarily…

— Laurence Sterne

Every concert pianist knows that the surest way to ruin a performance is to be aware of what the fingers are doing.…

— Peter Watts

What is the manager's job? It is to direct the resources and the efforts of the business toward opportunities for economically significant…

— Peter Drucker

Rested, Refreshed, and Ready to run, the three Rs of peak performance.

— Hal Higdon

Wal-Mart hires average people but squeezes above average performance and results out of them.

— Michael Bergdahl

Over the long run, superior performance depends on superior learning.

— Peter Senge

I can't imagine a successful comedy movie without a successful comedy performance at the heart of it.

— Harold Ramis

The only performance that makes it, that makes it all the way is the one that achieves madness.

— Mick Jagger

Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms.

— Mahatma Gandhi

If you can raise the level of effort and performance in those around you, you are officially a leader.

— Urban Meyer

I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature.

— J. J. Abrams