There's one thing you can't download and that's a live performance. And I know how to put on a show, and enjoy… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
My dear sisters, do not pray for tasks equal to your abilities, but pray for abilities equal to your tasks. Then the… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
If you're always in a hurry, always trying to get ahead of the other guy, or someone else's performance is what motivates… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Sometimes the ensemble 'Eighth Blackbird' will have performances and invite me to be a featured soloist. I think that is what they… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
As lovely as people are to me about my performance, I'm still a huge critic. I like very little of what I… — Daniel Gillies Copy Share Image
Jazz exemplifies artistic activity that is at once individual and communal, performance that is both repetitive and innovative, each participant sometimes providing… — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
Money can extinguish intrinsic motivation, diminish performance, crush creativity, encourage unethical behavior, foster short-term thinking, and become addictive. — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
The worst thing that can happen is that the effect that they create behind you is bigger than the performance you're putting… — Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa Copy Share Image
Writing a book I have found to be like building a house. A man forms a plan, and collects materials. He thinks… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
There has to be a womp on the side of the head that defeats and undercuts this game of performance. It has… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
I love to talk to children about making mistakes. It's important that I tell them about how I don't get it right… — Patricia MacLachlan Copy Share Image
So the recordings were these immersive landscapes, and yet, unlike the performances that almost no one would see, I had a sense… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
As with all catalysts, the manager's function is to speed up the reaction between two substances, thus creating the desired end product.… — Marcus Buckingham Copy Share Image
Opera was an enormous part of my childhood. My parents were both opera buffs, and they met in the box seat of… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
Hipsters seek refuge in church, Our Lady of Perpetual Subculture. There is some discussion as to whether or not they are still… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
Since the birth of our nation, the steady performance of the Marine Corps in fighting America's battles has made it the very… — Clare Boothe Luce Copy Share Image
It's always about wanting to one-up myself from the day before. There's never an absolute 100% perfect performance, but going out and… — Cat Osterman Copy Share Image
Sometimes when I don't want to cry, I cry. And when I want to I can't. It's subconscious. Like sexual performance. — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
The part that I felt most comfortable with going in was just working with actors and trying to make them feel comfortable… — Jennifer Westfeldt Copy Share Image
Earlier this month the State Department gave the umpteenth performance of its popular play, Please Tread on Me, with Ceylon as guest… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
Performance art is going to be the future. Plays on Broadway are so restricted. But performance art is like haikus, just one… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
The ephemeral nature of live performance is the part I love most - it's a monk's sand painting, carefully constructed, then wiped… — Rosanne Cash Copy Share Image
Pay close attention to detail in whatever it is you are doing. Be specific and expect quality from your performance. — Robert Cheeke Copy Share Image
Whenever I do a performance I always hope it is the best day of my life. Sometimes it happens and sometimes it… — Hiromi Copy Share Image
Everybody thinks performance capture is about thrashing around and doing a lots of movement, but it's actually about being able to contain… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
I want to experience a performance on all levels - I want goose bumps and I want to leave the movie or… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
When you are new to the business, you think if you give a really bad performance, that's one they will print. You… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you take my performance or my understanding of the role and my appreciation for story and then dress it in CGI,… — Vin Diesel Copy Share Image
I hope my recordings of my own works won't inhibit other people's performances. The brutal fact is that one doesn't always get… — Aaron Copland Copy Share Image
Excesses are essentially gestures. It is easy to be extremely cruel, magnanimous, humble or self-sacrificing when we see ourselves as actors in… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
We used to moralize; today we normalize, and performance anxiety is the secular version of our old religious guilt. — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
Every time you compete, try harder to improve on your last performance. Give nothing short of your very best effort. — Elgin Baylor Copy Share Image
Animal abusers are not the only culprits - the consumers are the biggest abusers! As long as buyers, users, attendees at animal… — Adela Popescu Copy Share Image
I didn't want to feel like I was mimicking or copying someone else's performance, whether it's subconscious or not. — Aidan Turner Copy Share Image
A mockingbird... was heard to blend the songs of 32 different kinds of birds into a 10 minute performance, a virtuoso display… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Misbeliefs in one's inefficacy may retard development of the very subskills upon which more complex performances depend — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
So I'm one of the few celebrities that got to do a repeat performance on 'The Simpsons,' which I'm very flattered by. — Al Yankovic Copy Share Image
I wasn't one of those hideous children who make their parents sit through hour-long performances when you're seven. I didn't do anything… — Jo Brand Copy Share Image
Talking to actors is the same as talking to any other artists; it's getting into the moment for them, and making sure… — Jennifer Yuh Nelson Copy Share Image
Good engineering is characterized by gradual, stepwise refinement of products that yields increased performance under given constraints and with given resources. — Niklaus Wirth Copy Share Image
