Performances Quotes · Page 30

I don't want to feel like I'm stuck doing one-stock performances.

— Mark Ruffalo

The theater of my mind has a seating capacity of just one, and its sold out for all performances.

— Henry Winkler

That's another flaw with performance-based rewards: They are easy for one of your competitors to top.

— Joel Spolsky

Life is like a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the intrument as you go along

— E. M. Forster

Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.

— E. M. Forster

People are inherently good. Our souls are magnificent and capable of extraordinary performance.

— Glenn Beck

New York State is upside down and backwards; high taxes and low performance.

— Andrew Cuomo

Good performance is about the capacity to focus and concentrate.

— Betty Buckley

I am firmly convinced that you shouldn't necessarily emphasize hedonism, especially at the beginning of a career, but should instead focus entirely…

— Oliver Kahn

Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one's actions.

— B.K.S. Iyengar

It's hard to be strong and be weak at the same time. So I spent a lot of time sitting still. Sitting…

— Lady Gaga

In these early games you're focused on your performance. Just coming out and playing hard. There's not a lot you can do…

— Dom Starsia

Let me realize that my past failures at follow-through are no indication of my future performance. They're just healthy little fires that…

— Ze Frank

White performances were always dull in comparison to the astonishing expressiveness of Black dancers. Behind the white person's inarticulate body were centuries…

— Jamake Highwater

Performance shots are a waste of time, they look like everyone else's. If you want to shoot a performer, then grab them,…

— Art Kane

Anne Hathaway you gave a stunning performance in "Les Miserables." I have not seen someone so totally alone and abandoned like that…

— Tina Fey

I love to talk to children about making mistakes. Its important that I tell them about how I dont get it right…

— Patricia MacLachlan

If you swap it about, do television, theatre, film, you can go on surprising yourself. The problem is you get employed to…

— Kenneth Cranham

So many dancers rely on some sort of magic happening on the stage. They never, for various reasons, work full out in…

— Benjamin Harkarvy

I do have a lot of sexual imagery in my performance. But I don't think it's ever encouraging anyone to have sex.…

— Marilyn Manson

'Untitled' is a time machine that can transport you to 1992, an edgy moment when the art world was crumbling, money was…

— Jerry Saltz

Acting is not a lofty performance; it is simply the source of becoming and existing transparently. Acting, I find, is the art…

— Masiela Lusha

The metaphor ( coaching) with sports is meant quite seriously... the coach stands back , observes the performance, and provides guidance. The…

— David Perkins

It's a holistic process for me during a show. I'm always focusing on the technical aspects of my voice. I try to…

— Matisyahu

An entertainer should in his public performance keep himself out of any controversy, political or otherwise.

— Kate Smith

It was an extraterrestrial performance. It is very special to go below 4:50, but I believe I can do better.

— Noureddine Morceli

Any excuse for non-performance, no matter how valid, weakens character.

— Spencer W. Kimball

Be fanatics. When it comes to being and doing and dreaming the best, be maniacs.

— A. M. Rosenthal

The best way to improve children's performance in the classroom may be to take them out of it.

— Tara Parker-Pope

Your level of performance matches your dominant self image.

— Jack Canfield

If you want to build a high performance organization, you've got to play chess, not checkers.

— Mark Millar

Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.

— Adam McKay

The most memorable performance was my appearance in concert in Carnegie Hall. The first standup to do so.

— Shelley Berman

An amazing performance is always a reflection of awesome amounts of practice.

— Robin Sharma

Sexuality and gender don't change anyone's performance on the court.

— Sheryl Swoopes

Because watercolor actually moves on the paper, it is the most active of all mediums, almost a performance art.

— Nita Engle

You really expose yourself when you try and go to up the volume and up the size of your performance.

— Alexander Siddig

A divinely expressed performance in any genre sets me completely on fire.

— Idara Victor

Chess is one of the few arts where composition takes place simultaneously with performance

— Garry Kasparov

There are a million ways of arriving at a performance, any number of them solid.

— Ali Farahnakian