Performances Quotes · Page 29

Piano performances by Condoleezza Rice are better than Hitler's paintings.

— Evgeni Kostitsyn

Playing in Milan is never easy because the San Siro always commands great performances.

— Massimiliano Allegri

High expectations and belief in people leads to high performance so very often belief creates fact.

— Paul Hersey

Life is rather like acting lessons while you are on stage giving a public performance!

— Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet

A lot of players think the game is all about individual performances when it's really all about a team game.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Whenever I have a bad performance, I look at it as a learning experience.

— Johnny Damon

If you're taking performance-enhancing drugs and you get caught, in my mind, you should be banned for life.

— Michael Bisping

I think there are a lot of celebrities who put on a performance on camera.

— Anderson Cooper

There will be occasions in each of our lives when we will be called upon to explain or to defend our beliefs.…

— Thomas S. Monson

The composers could no longer direct all performances in person, and so the responsibility of interpreting their works in the spirit in…

— Anton Seidl

God’s anointing is not based on your performance, but if you don’t open the Word, you’re stupid, because that’s where the words…

— Andrew Wommack

You can make an interesting character in a small portion of a movie, for a character that doesn't have that much on…

— Joel Kinnaman

From their maneuvers and their terrific speed I am certain their flight performance was greater than any aircraft known today.

— Frank Herman Schofield

I suppose it's unfair, tricks of argument that leave wounds, but with this sort of thing that (C.S.) Lewis does, what I…

— Joy Davidman

I used to be a street performer, and performances on Venice Beach, it's like playing the Apollo: They let you know if…

— Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

I would be terribly disappointed if anything would get in the way of my being cast in something, or if performances were…

— Trevor Nunn

To the extent that children with similar characteristics achieve comparable performance levels, using the performances of similar peers is likely to yield…

— Albert Bandura

Much more than our other needs and endeavors, it is sexuality that puts us on an even footing with our kind: the…

— Emile M. Cioran

I love being on stage if I'm not on a set. If I'm at home, I'm usually in my office editing or…

— Dane Cook

When you're shooting a network television show it inevitably starts airing a few episodes in, and depending on the ratings and the…

— Lizzy Caplan

That's what's so satisfying about acting. You can come as prepared as you like, but there's no accounting for what's going to…

— David Oyelowo

You can say something that can really help and actor and you can say something that can really get in the way…

— Josh Radnor

First, those who disagree with market efficiency simply assert that it stands to common sense that greater effort to get facts and…

— Paul Samuelson

Peter Watts has taken the core myths of the First Contact story and shaken them to pieces. The result is a shocking…

— Karl Schroeder

We have a no puke rule. The purpose is performance, not puking.

— Jeff Galloway

Let today's strong performance be your starting point for tomorrow.

— Ron Kaufman

To me travel is triple delight: anticipation, performance, and recollection.

— Ilka Chase

How you measure the performance of your managers directly affects the way they act.

— Gustave Flaubert

“A procession is a participants' journey, while a parade is a performance with an audience.”

— Rebecca Solnit

You mustn't judge a politician by talk. You have to judge them by performance.

— Milton Friedman

I read myself out of poverty, long before I worked myself out of poverty.

— Walter Inglis Anderson

Everything in my life was about performance when I was doing 'The Partridge Family.

— David Cassidy

I like to read what people are saying about my performances. With that, I can try to get better.

— Fred

Wealth is not determined by investment performance, but by investor behavior.

— Nick Murray

Good performance is about what you take in, not what you put out.

— Livingston Taylor

I did 'Roadies,' a reality show, and dance performances from time to time.

— Esha Deol

There is no nobler deed than the performance of one's duty.

— Len Smith

But alas! Like many another consummation devoutly to be wished, the actual performance was a disappointing one.

— Fred Reinfeld

Lizzy Weiss is such a great writer, and she really writes for the performances.

— Vanessa Marano

Promises may get thee friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.

— Benjamin Franklin