Performances Quotes · Page 27

It is the repeated performance of just and temperate actions that produces virtue.

— Aristotle

Everything I do is geared towards improving my next performance.

— Carolina Kluft

Effective performance is preceded by painstaking preparation

— Brian Tracy

We've always had a dark atmosphere to our performances, so it sort of developed along those ways.

— Kenny Hickey

Of course, there is no substitute for live performances.

— Y. G. Mahendran

Social media is a performance like any other form of entertainment, and acknowledging that is important.

— Bryce Dallas Howard

When I see Almunia's performances, I get angry and have to make a fist in my pocket

— Jens Lehmann

Have you set high standards in the past that make it clear what level of performance you demand?

— Tom Peters

As far as the performance aspect, I'm going to be an actor. I still love performing, but I'm moving into more acting.

— Stephen Boss

If we observe the performance of only those funds that remain active, we will tend to find that the average performance of…

— Robert Haugen

Second of all, I don't think Wall Street is doing what it's supposed to be doing, even after the shameful performance of…

— Howard Dean

I feel like when there's so much conversation about women's athletics right now, we need to focus on their performance and their…

— Shawn Johnson

What really made me a performance artist was that I was able to step back and assess. I've always had [that ability],…

— Kalup Linzy

For example, there's no word emocionó in English, so I have to say, "You, you really emotioned me," It's more precise, even…

— Sandra Cisneros

The problem is, when you're working with orchestras, you only get the orchestra for about two hours before the performance to pull…

— Andrew Bird

Composing for concert performance is a somewhat lonely occupation, but composing a film score is highly collaborative.

— William P. Perry

Representing Canada as a hockey player is always a tremendous honor, which also comes with a lot of responsibility. Being able to…

— Scott Niedermayer

He's lost something, some illusion I used to think was necessary to him. He's come to realize he too is human. Or…

— Margaret Atwood

People need to take as much interest in other sports as they take in cricket, and that's where we come across a…

— Gagan Narang

I love storytelling and I love just relating directly to an audience. That's why we do theatre, it's because we love contact…

— Simon Callow

I appear, my fellow-citizens, in your presence and in that of Heaven to bind myself by the solemnities of religious obligation to…

— John Quincy Adams

The reason I moved to California the first time was to build the Cobra. I thought it was stupid to have a…

— Carroll Shelby

The appearance and retirement of actors are the great events of the theatrical world; and their first performances fill the pit with…

— Samuel Johnson

Alfonso Cuarón, in the rehearsals, without J.K. Rowling's knowledge, told me that [my character] was, in fact, gay. So I'd been playing…

— David Thewlis

I treat every time I walk on the stage like it's the performance of my life.

— Eric Benet

I'm far more drawn to performances by strong women than I am to men.

— Cody Fern

A movie has its own fate, which often doesn’t depend on the performances of the director and actors.

— Zhang Ziyi

A self-reinforcing upward spiral: performance stimulating pride stimulating performance.

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

The life of every man is an endlessly repeated performance of the life of man.

— Edwin Muir

The Parent Trap wouldn't have been as special without the remarkable performances by Hayley Mills.

— Maureen O'Hara

Confidence is the bridge connecting expectations and performance, investment and results.

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

If I am ever put to death on the hook, expect a very human performance.

— Kurt Vonnegut

I don't say that I never feel fear before a performance, but I have learned to channel it.

— Claudio Arrau

If my films do well or not, I am glad that the audiences appreciate my performance.

— Hrithik Roshan

I didn't develop or build synths. I had my technicians modify them for my live stage performances.

— Gary Wright

Good directing is about getting the performance to be just what's right for the movie.

— Roland Joffe

A mouse and a keyboard is not a good performance instrument.

— Pauline Oliveros

I owe one thing to my public - the best performance I can give.

— Johnny Carson

The only way to maximize potential for performance is to be calm in the mind.

— Brian Sipe

If you want to have a better performance than the crowd, you must do things differently from the crowd.

— John Templeton