Performance Quotes
1516 quotes by 1228 authors
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Our Father in Heaven loves all of His children and desires that they know and understand His plan of happiness. Therefore, He calls prophets, those…
— Carol F. McConkie
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One of the things I most wanted to do in New York was to go to a performance by Martha Graham. For me, she's Miss…
— Eugene Walter
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The miracle of the Atonement can make up for imperfections in our performance.
— Gary E. Stevenson
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Success is created through the performance of a few small daily disciplines that stack up over time to produce achievements far beyond anything you could…
— Robin Sharma
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My life is a performance for which I was never given any chance to rehearse.
— Ashleigh Brilliant
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People come up to me as I leave the stage after a performance and tell me tey saw my mother onstage with me every time…
— Lorna Luft
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That's a wonderful thing, because one of the primary qualities of a good performance is honesty.
— Roberta Flack
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Some directors cast you because they trust you to do the performance - but then they forget to direct you.
— Samantha Morton
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One only has to look at the performance of the economy to understand how it shapes the perspective of America's youth about military service.
— John M. McHugh
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Souls were the same. They, too, had useless baggage that impeded their proper performance, these annoying, holier-than-thou bits dangling like an appendix waiting for infection.…
— J R Ward
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You may be a well-educated, clever and virtuous person, but those qualities will not necessarily make you a successful businessman. You must give your best…
— Konosuke Matsushita
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The bulk of my set is instrumental and you have to give yourself and the audience some relief because a performance is not about great…
— Leo Kottke
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It was an extraterrestrial performance. It is very special to go below 4:50, but I believe I can do better.
— Noureddine Morceli
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It's such a performance to bring stuff into America. It's a great luxury when I am in England.
— Terence Stamp
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We must promote solid traits such as work ethics, a dignified lifestyle, matching actions to rhetoric, performance rather than grandstanding.
— Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
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The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure; but it has a certain probity, which…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I'm giving up acting. . . . I'm 66 and there are a number of celebrations I've got to get down on paper, and acting…
— Athol Fugard
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We humans have a wide range of abilities that help us perceive and analyze mathematical content. We perceive abstract notions not just through seeing but…
— William Thurston
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Everybody uses mime and gesture in real life, though we don't realize it. It's very useful as a performance technique, though it can be boring…
— Anthony Daniels
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Faced with a new mutation in an organism, or a fundamental change in its living conditions, the biologist is frequently in no position whatever to…
— George Wald
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