Good directing is about getting the performance to be just what's right for the movie. — Roland Joffe Copy Share Image
The only way to maximize potential for performance is to be calm in the mind. — Brian Sipe Copy Share Image
If you want to have a better performance than the crowd, you must do things differently from the crowd. — John Templeton Copy Share Image
What I want is that I can match my performances during training so I can be satisfied with myself. — Liu Xiang Copy Share Image
If I think about the way I was drawn into the music, it was much more by recordings than by live performances. — Evan Parker Copy Share Image
I don't say that I never feel fear before a performance, but I have learned to channel it. — Claudio Arrau Copy Share Image
Even if Mays is given every conceivable break on every unknown - defense, base running, clutch hitting - his performance still would… — Bill James Copy Share Image
There's so much to learn about acting and performance in general... I mean, acting is a very complex art, and there are… — Haley Joel Osment Copy Share Image
My struggle isn't believing my performance can earn God's favor; my struggle is believing my performance can keep God's favor — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
You should make an effort on stage because it's a performance. The stage should be glittery and camp, but I don't go… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is by now beyond question that Elton John is a competent and classy entertainer. Few people who have achieved his popularity… — Jon Landau Copy Share Image
There may be a hundred thousand men in an army, who are all equally free; but they only are naturally most fit… — Algernon Sidney Copy Share Image
In the scenes I try to be a giver as much as possible, giving the other actor something to work with. When… — James Preston Rogers Copy Share Image
I just try to touch people's hearts in a way through skating, so they're not just witnessing a performance, they're feeling a… — Scott Hamilton Copy Share Image
The history of all times and nations teaches us that exactly in the naïve, unshakable belief, furnished by religion in active life… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
There was no such person as Marilyn Monroe. Marilyn Monroe was an invention of hers. A genius invention that she created, like… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend - if you have one. Telegram inviting Winston… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Obama ran on a platform of unmitigated optimism - a promise to usher in a brighter day for America. But there could… — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image
We [with Rick Rubin] would focus on the ones that we did like, that felt right and sounded right. And if I… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
Filmmaking isn’t if you can just strap on a camera onto an actor, and steadicam, and point it at their face, and… — David Fincher Copy Share Image
Joey being one of my finest performances ever. Matt LeBlanc's basically doing the same thing right now, playing himself on Episodes. When… — Brent Spiner Copy Share Image
When one is working out a problem ... life becomes duality. One's ego transacts the ordinary routine of things, as if the… — Alice Foote MacDougall Copy Share Image
He believed that life, true life, was something that was stored in music. True life was kept safe in the lines of… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
Ballet dancers are a self-chosen elite. To survive and surmount years of disciplinary preparation and seasons of even more arduous performance requires… — Lincoln Kirstein Copy Share Image
Most problems, decisions, and performances are multidimensional, but somehow the results have to be reduced to a few key indicators which are… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
When someone says to me, do you do stand-up I say absolutely not. I like to think of it as a theatrical… — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
I am very pleased to be involved with the Daniel Pearl Music Days committee because its message resonates with me on a… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
An institution which is financed by a budget - or which enjoys a monopoly which the customer cannot escape - is rewarded… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
You know yourself what you are worth in your own eyes; and at what price you will sell yourself. For men sell… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Frequent comparative ranking can only reinforce a short-term investment perspective. It is understandably difficult to maintain a long-term view when, faced with… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
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