Performing Quotes · Page 29

We become just by the practice of just actions, self-controlled by exercising self-control, and courageous by performing acts of courage.

— Aristotle

Performing for people who are being paid to enjoy themselves? It's wonderful.

— Jaz Sinclair

I love performing. I love getting out there. It's kind of like why I make music.

— Yelawolf

I do love live performing, but I'm not a stand-up naturally, and I don't like the lifestyle of working just in the…

— Amy Hoggart

Marijuana, for me in particular, releases my creative juices. It doesn't work well for performing, but for creating nothing works better.

— Steve "Lips" Kudlow

I was always into performing and dancing as a kid and acting was a safe place to have all my feelings, which…

— Bella Heathcote

I didn't go to a normal high school. It was for people in the performing arts.

— Marla Sokoloff

I hold all of the songs that I have had the pleasure of recording and performing in high regard.

— Dionne Warwick

Mentally there's no question about whether I still like the sport and love doing it. I think it's pretty clear to everyone…

— Samantha Peszek

And being away and not performing for a long time and really connecting with my audience for a long time, I have…

— Jackie DeShannon

For a while I was perfectly happy not performing with 'The Who.' From 1982 to 1989 I felt 'The Who' did not…

— Pete Townshend

There are many ways of performing the operations successfully. I can claim, however, to be in a position to explain how not…

— Harry Vardon

If you play Mark Twain and he's not funny, you are definitely not playing Mark Twain. That was the biggest challenge, in…

— Val Kilmer

When people come to our show [Aladdin], I want them to forget about that for a little while and enjoy the moment.…

— James Monroe Iglehart

When I was little, I was very loud and loved performing in front of people. I was fearless. When I hit puberty,…

— Brianna Brown

I just loved performing. It just made me feel alive. It's scary, but that's part of it. I think it's important to…

— Emma Watson

I stopped performing because I don't have the temperament of a performer. You have to want to do the same thing over…

— Tom Lehrer

My mom was a sub teacher her whole life. My aunt was a teacher her whole life. So that wasn't hard to…

— Matt Snell

In the early nineteenth century, the doctrine of self-sufficiency came to apply to families as well as individuals… The familybecame a special…

— Kenneth Keniston

I love songwriting ! It's my Number One passion other than performing. Well, actually it's like wearing three different hats: songwriting, recording…

— Delbert McClinton

Humans are incapable of securely storing high-quality cryptographic keys, and they have unacceptable speed and accuracy when performing cryptographic operations. (They are…

— Charlie Kaufman

The other way that you democratize the food movement is through the public school system. If you can pay enough for the…

— Michael Pollan

What I have seen in the past 10 years of traveling- performing at a church one day and a casino the next-…

— Ricky Skaggs

My final coaching point of the day: It's my contention that in any given moment one lives one's life in one of…

— Jim Steen

I quite like the idea of performing in front of people that don't like me.

— Gilbert O'Sullivan

But I also live to perform and I've been performing my whole life, whether it's been in sports or you know in…

— Ruben Studdard

The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure.

— I. F. Stone

Unless the clients want, I don't like to have dancers for my shows. I prefer a rock show look and like performing…

— Shaan

My focus was, and still is, totally on making music, getting on the road and performing live.

— Katie Melua

I love performing, you know, because, like I say, I'm a ham for this stuff.

— Mr. T

For me, the energy when I'm DJ'ing should be about the dance floor and not about the person performing.

— Bonobo

The best way to refine an interpretation is by getting out and performing.

— Joshua Bell

Performing is just standing up there and doing something. Performance takes on an edge to it. It has a more dramatic context.

— Alan King

I had fans in Venezuela throw things at me on the field because I was performing so badly.

— Tommy Pham

I still like going on the road and performing, but it's getting tougher. I try to have my wife and the twins…

— Kenny Rogers

I think I will always be performing; I don't think I can take that away. Because I really just enjoy it. I…

— Lea Salonga

When singing, you need performing skills and a bit of imagination. You have to treasure the emotions, and to not deviate from…

— Kim Tae-yeon

I wasn't properly performing in Canada. I was just starting out, and when everyone starts out, they're terrible. I'm sure there are…

— Katherine Ryan

If you're an artist like a really, really long time, it stops being a performance. I'm not performing anymore. I reveal myself…

— Eddie Murphy

Whenever we practise meditation, whether or not our meditation is clear, we are performing a virtuous mental action that is a cause…

— Geshe Kelsang Gyatso