Performances Quotes · Page 24

The supreme misfortune is when theory outstrips performance

— Leonardo da Vinci

When I play, I open up. I'm in the heat of the performance and it's a healing thing. It's great!

— Matt Nathanson

You have to worry about your own performances before you think about everyone else.

— Aaron Mooy

Conflict is what creates drama. The more conflict actors find, the more interesting the performance.

— Michael Shurtleff

I've been onstage once for one performance with four days' rehearsal.

— Anna Friel

So, sometimes, when I'm not happy with my performance and I have to think, I will think in English

— Sophie Marceau

The sign of a great player is how much he elevates his colleagues' performance.

— Phil Jackson

If he [Donald Trump]can boost Mitt Romney's performance five points among white folks, he could have a shot.

— Chris Hayes

We will not achieve high performance in education if we replace teachers with machines or turn teachers into machines.

— Andy Hargreaves

The act of creation, as you very well know, is a lonely and private matter and has nothing to do with the…

— Edward Albee

One of the biggest challenges in my job is letting go of the movie once you go home at night, and knowing…

— Amber Heard

Stage performance is obviously a much grander sort of depiction. The audience isn't right in your face as close as a camera…

— Amanda Schull

Live performances make music important. Recording is cool and fun, and it's nice to document the thing you made, but the goal…

— Dan Deacon

Assessments should compare the performance of students to a set of expectations, never to the performance of other students.

— Alfie Kohn

The funny thing is that I'm not a planner. I have no idea what I want to do in the interim of…

— Kristen Bell

Songs that don't depend on composition depend instead on performance - so the fire has to be there in the playing.

— Brian Eno

I try to find out what there is in the character that in a way, you can't put into words. If I…

— Alan Alda

In our minds lives the madonna image--the all-embracing, all- giving tranquil mother of a Raphael painting, one child at her breast, another…

— Lillian B. Rubin

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

I’ve learned that possibly the greatest detractor from high performance is fear: fear that you are not prepared, fear that you are…

— Pete Carroll

Dave Rocha is a mature and eminently musical improviser. His sumptuous tone and cafefully chosen notes embody real musical thought. His performance…

— Frank Hanny

The presidents poking fun at himself over what goes down. I thought it was a good-natured performance. It made him look good.…

— Brit Hume

Emily Kendal Frey's The Grief Performance is a book that condenses a journey of finding and re-finding loss into beautiful packages. The…

— Dorothea Lasky

James Gandolfini was a genius. Anyone who saw him even in the smallest of his performances knows that. He is one of…

— David Chase

Nutrition is also a valuable component that can help athletes both protect themselves and improve performance.

— Bill Toomey

But I can't say that I didn't like John Hammond's performances often better than the originals.

— Warren Zevon

I have been giving live performances since childhood, and I continue to do so professionally.

— Roop Durgapal

Every performance is different, but I try to approach them in the same way and give it my all.

— McCoy Tyner

The important thing is to dare to dream big, then take action to make it come true.

— Joe Girard

Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.

— George W. Crane

Instead of rating the man by his performances, we rate too frequently the performances by the man.

— Samuel Johnson

The seven Ps: Proper Planning and Preparation Prevent Piss-Poor Performance

— John Lanchester

In the performance of a good action, we not only benefit ourselves, but we confer a blessing upon others.

— Philip Sidney

Enjoying life is far superior to being graded on your performance in life.

— Anonymous

One has to set high standards... I can never be happy with mediocre performance.

— Patrice Motsepe

The boys performance was so good that I've run out of expletives to describe it.

— Micky Mellon

Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking.

— D.T. Suzuki

The sign of a great player is not how much he scores, but how much he lifts his teammates performance

— Red Holzman

The eating of burning brimstone is an entirely fake performance.

— Harry Houdini

A demanding performance challenge tends to create a team.

— John Katzenbach