Performances Quotes · Page 26

We wanted guys who had been productive in college, and we made it a point to pick performance over potential.

— Tony Dungy

Evaluate every performance on: stage presence, concentration, delivery, material and lessons learned.

— Franklyn Ajaye

[On Katharine Hepburn's stage performance:] She ran the whole gamut of emotions, from A to B.

— Dorothy Parker

I didnt develop or build synths. I had my technicians modify them for my live stage performances.

— Gary Wright

I just want the audience to see that the performances are a real representation of myself.

— Taeyang

People love events - they love performances, they love music - and I think Australians are great entertainers.

— Cate Blanchett

To be overcome with the ultimate goal often interferes with performance.

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

We do what we can, and then make a theory to prove our performance the best.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

For we must not build temples according to the same rules to all gods alike, since the performance of the sacred rites…

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I…

— Lady Gaga

There are many likewise, who go on in a round of duties, a model of performances, that think they shall go to…

— George Whitefield

I don’t believe in technique, I believe in performance. If you are tough, whether you have technique or not, you’ll survive.

— Virender Sehwag

it is necessary that we should all have a little of the will to die, because otherwise we would find the performance…

— Rebecca West

The task of management is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.

— Peter Drucker

High performance leaders capitalize on crises to galvanize the motivation and actions of people in the organization.

— Andy Hargreaves

There have been many accolades uttered about Elvis' talent and performances through the years, all of which I agree with wholeheartedly. I…

— Frank Sinatra

World War Z was a great zombie film because those were zombie performances. It wasn't just a bunch of people walking around…

— Tom Savini

I learned a long time ago that one way to maximize potential for performance is to be calm in my mind. What…

— Brian Sipe

Technology has also had a big impact, especially on the bike. Now everything is tested aerodynamically, wind tunnels are used to optimize…

— Timothy O'Donnell

I am not a sentimental or superstitious person, so I don't have any pre-performance rituals. I am a very practical woman. After…

— Vaginal Davis

If you facilitate your subordinates' steady progress in meaningful work, make that progress salient to them, and treat them well, they will…

— Teresa Amabile

Through performance, I found the possibility of establishing a dialogue with the audience through an exchange of energy, which tended to transform…

— Marina Abramovic

As opposed to a movie [Real Steel] where everything feels fantastical, it was really important to me, and I recognise it's not…

— Shawn Anthony Levy

Yoga has had a profound effect on my songs and performances. I don't meditate in the traditional style of sitting and doing…

— Jason Mraz

Criticism shouldn't be a performance that upstages the work it's talking about.

— Darryl Pinckney

In combat, spontaneity rules; rote performance of technique perishes.

— Bruce Lee

I tend to be hypercritical of my performances. That's why I hate watching them with people I know.

— Jill Flint

I accept that responsibility and ask only that I be judged by my performance as its chief executive.

— Jane Byrne

I don't think I will ever give up doing live performances.

— Riya Sen

I love performances that move me, like Waheeda Rehman in any of her roles.

— Hazel Keech

I am forever grateful that I got some training in the theater - it reduces performance anxiety.

— Julia Stiles

Writing is a performance, like singing an aria or dancing a jig

— Stephen Greenblatt

Somehow writing has always seemed to me to have an element of performance.

— Joan Didion

The last thing that man will understand in nature is the performance of his brain.

— John Eccles

To do well at a new competition, you need a lot of good performances.

— Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain

By nature, worship is not some performance we do, but a presence we experience.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

Benchmark your performance against your best competitors. Think how you can beat them next time.

— Brian Tracy

If you don't back it up with performance and hard work, talking doesn't mean a thing.

— Michael Jordan

My life is a performance for which I was never given any chance to rehearse.

— Ashleigh Brilliant

The performance is created by the director. The actor is the material. And I think that has to be true.

— Ian Mckellen