The feelings of being in the audience and being on the podium are very far apart. When you're onstage and something goes… — George Benjamin Copy Share Image
The performance of buggery is no more inevitable a part of homosexuality than an orange syllabub is an inevitable part of a… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Mutual fund managers are trapped in this rather deadly vicious circle: the more successful they are, the more money flows into their… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
Truly what the Emmys are about are the machine behind them, and Oscars are the same way, where if you have a… — Christopher Judge Copy Share Image
Like squirrels, the best in every business do what they have learned to do without questioning their abilities - they flat out… — John Eliot Copy Share Image
I enjoyed Jonathan Franzen's 'Freedom.' Would I make that into a film? I think it's better suited to television. That would very… — Peter Weir Copy Share Image
Comedy is the only form of entertainment where the audience doesn't know what to expect. In an evening, you might get ten… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
The performances that I love are ones like Gena Rowlands in 'A Woman Under the Influence,' where women are allowed to be… — Kirsten Dunst Copy Share Image
Classical stuff takes a lot of rehearsal time and preparation, but with stuff that involves improvisation, you can over-rehearse it and it… — John Zorn Copy Share Image
While I was coaching, I believe the motivation talk I gave my players that achieved the best results was in reference to… — Bill Sharman Copy Share Image
I have discovered that I cannot enhance anybody's performance without getting them not only to live with the butterflies that come with… — John Eliot Copy Share Image
Even people that know Johnny Cash's music really well and know that he was married don't really know that much about June… — Reese Witherspoon Copy Share Image
The very foundation of our science is only an inference; far the whole of it rests an the unprovable assumption that, all… — William Morris Davis Copy Share Image
But weightier still are the contentment which comes from work well done, the sense of the value of science for its own… — Lawrence Joseph Henderson Copy Share Image
It is not a dreamlike state, but the somehow insulated state, that a great musician achieves in a great performance. He's aware… — Arnold Palmer Copy Share Image
I think 'SNL' is so well-known for its musical performances, as well, and people really breaking into America through a really great… — Kimbra Copy Share Image
A top-quartile teacher will increase the performance of their class - based on test scores - by over 10 percent in a… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I am singing in an operatic voice for the public, to bring something more to Rock and Roll. Because in a Rock… — Klaus Nomi Copy Share Image
What really sells a fight, and any kind of action, is the performance of it. If someone is uncomfortable or uncertain about… — Zoe Bell Copy Share Image
Anthony Mackie in 'The Hurt Locker' is everything an actor can hope to be. So rock steady in his portrayal that you… — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
When law enforcers are shown to have such unswerving integrity, only the most churlish among us would question the methods they use… — Donna Woolfolk Cross Copy Share Image
The confidence you need is belief in your potential. If you see world-class potential in yourself, you'll put in the effort. If… — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
The great challenge to management today is to make productive the tremendous new resource, the knowledge worker. This, rather than the productivity… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
On stage you never watch yourself. You just experience it, and then you go home, and you feel pretty good if you… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
Being the first mid-size SUV for the brand, Dodge Nitro had to personify the bold, powerful and street-smart attitude of Dodge. In… — George Murphy Copy Share Image
I'm always going to judge somebody on their work ethic, and whether or not they made me feel something, or whether or… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
When you haven't found inner meaning, you will always substitute outer performance. It's the only way to fill that void, that sense… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
I really trust the authenticity of real people and my job is to get them to be themselves in front of the… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
I don't plan in terms of career ambitions. The only career ambition I have is to work with people who are going… — Brendan Gleeson Copy Share Image
If someone should ask, "how should an Opposition function?" the best answer would be, "in the manner of a traditional mother-in-law who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some nights you might go through an entire performance and not feel a thing, and the audience may have a much better… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
You do sometimes watch performances and just think, 'I may as well give up. I won't reach that. I may as well… — Tom Mison Copy Share Image
In a sense, I like to think of the live performance as something different than the record, not necessarily looking to exactly… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
The analogies between science and art are very good as long as you are talking about the creation and the performance. The… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
It is tragic to have to realize that the best I had to give as a soldier, obedience, and loyalty, was exploited… — Wilhelm Keitel Copy Share Image
Maybe at the core of me, I'm a survivor, but I don't do it on purpose. Sometimes, in acting of course with… — Paula Patton Copy Share Image
One of the things about being a minority actor is that you don't have that opportunity as some of your counterparts to… — Georg Stanford Brown Copy Share Image
No matter how tough, no matter what kind of outside pressure, no matter how many bad breaks along the way, I must… — Billie Jean King Copy Share Image
It was during this [as a kid] time that I came out of my shell vocally and performance wise, I learned how… — Tessanne Chin Copy Share Image
...As every one of us knows, there are some festivals and games in which everything goes right, and every element lifts up,… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
![“It was during this [as a kid] time that I came out of my shell vocally and performance wise, I learned how to really and truly sing in a different way… my way. It was an amazing experience because I also realized my lifelong dream - to sing my own songs...I have something to say and it was a great…” quote by Tessanne Chin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6bd/tessanne-chin-20183_amazing-experience_it-was-during-this-as-a-kid-time-that-i_628102.jpg)
