On my best days, such as when I was a junior in high school coming off a 42-point performance and near triple-double,… — Candace Parker Copy Share Image
Great achievement often happens when our backs are up against the wall. Pressure can actually enhance your performance. — Robin Sharma Copy Share Image
My obligation is to focus on the priorities of classroom instruction, parental involvement and student safety, targeting student performance and eliminating unnecessary… — John R. Leopold Copy Share Image
I held four clean aces. I had youth, almost a decade of hard-core bar band experience, a good group of homegrown musicians… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
And one of our points of continuing conversation with our trading partners is the urgency of their taking steps to remove barriers… — John W. Snow Copy Share Image
I've auditioned for roles that involved voice, but I don't like it. I feel like, I can't do this in front of… — Amanda Seyfried Copy Share Image
I fell in love with the process of taking pictures, with wandering around finding things. To me it feels like a kind… — Alec Soth Copy Share Image
Our privileges can be no greater than our obligations. The protection of our rights can endure no longer than the performance of… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
A few people said to me on the UK tour 'that feeling you're feeling is natural. Everyone feels nerves. But, you've got… — Ladyhawke Copy Share Image
Talent grips us. We are overtaken by the beauty of Michelangelo's sculpture, riveted by Mariah Carey's angelic voice, doubled over in laughter… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
I made my performance debut in New York City downtown on the Lower East Side in college doing awkward performance art as… — Annaleigh Ashford Copy Share Image
People who care about records are always giving me a hard time. I mean, I would destroy records in performances, and break… — Christian Marclay Copy Share Image
The fans get to see you, and you can do great by your record if you have a great performance or a… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
I love theater work because of the immediate effect your performance has on the audience. And I love the repetition; I love… — Alfred Molina Copy Share Image
The underlying foundation of all religion is performance - whether it's a tribal dance around a campfire to satisfy the fire god,… — Steve McVey Copy Share Image
Talent renders the whole idea of rehearsal meaningless; when you find something at which you are talented, you do it (whatever it… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Stanley Kubrick was very selective when he went into a close-up. Every director has his taste in a performance, but Stanley would… — Tom Cruise Copy Share Image
All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Don Knotts won five Emmy Awards for Outstanding Performance in a Supporting Role by an Actor or Actress in a Series [in… — Betty Lynn Copy Share Image
The performance on the stage has its reasons in the performance induced in thousands of separate minds and this second performance is… — Domenico Gnoli Copy Share Image
Unless an action is rightly thought out and its steps rightly planned, every stage of its performance will probably remain vague and… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
We need to make sure parents and coaches are aware of the dangers an on the look-out for the warning signs. Performance… — Chuck Grassley Copy Share Image
[I influenced by ]the work of early [Michelangelo] Antonioni, Orson Welles and [Carlo] Pasolini, I love [Nicolas Jack] Roeg's film "Performance". — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
Are you having performance issues?” I asked in surprise. “Bite your tongue,” Vlad said, with a snort. “I was seeing if Dermot… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
Coaching is unlocking a person's potential to maximize their own performance. It is helping them to learn rather than teaching them. — Timothy Gallwey Copy Share Image
I already love acting and I love actors, so being able to communicate with actors and to bring performances out of them,… — Eric Balfour Copy Share Image
In the simplest sense, the key to the performance of any traditional commercial bank ... is the profitability of the loans it makes. — Robert G. Wilmers Copy Share Image
If you don't demand that your people maintain. High performances to remain on your team, Why should they be proud of the… — Lou Holtz Copy Share Image
The United States have fulfilled in good faith all their treaty stipulations with the Indian tribes, and have in every other instance… — Martin Van Buren Copy Share Image
I want to say it to so many people, 'why you have to be so serious?' And I also want people to… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
Plot and melodrama were in every life; in some so briefly as hardly to be recognized, in others-in that of certain men… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
People are my most important asset. Faith in the supreme being, trust, credibility and performance are the things that have brought me… — Don King Copy Share Image
I'm 45, and I'm still at school, essentially. Even after being assigned to the mission, I had to write a number of… — Julie Payette Copy Share Image
You have to have wonderful actors for material, particularly difficult material that requires complicated performances. — John Wells Copy Share Image
I love doing theater so much - being in front of an audience and seeing how a character grows and develops with… — Jerry Hall Copy Share Image
Sport doesn't know barriers, really. You are judged on your performance... how far you can jump, how fast you can run, how… — Martina Navratilova Copy Share Image
I make films from the heart. I want to concentrate on the job of doing great and honest performances, and I'm gonna… — John Abraham Copy Share Image
There are no big things, only a logical accumulation of little things done at a very high standard of performance. — John Wooden Copy Share Image
I believe so much in the power of performance I don't want to convince people. I want them to experience it and… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
I don't enjoy public performances and being up on a stage. I don't enjoy the glamour. Like tonight, I am up on… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image