Performance Quotes

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With NOAH, you can create some stunning, yet original soundscapes. Therefore, as a performance tool, it really comes into its own because you can make… — Geoff Downes
We were doing performance art as far back as 1965, just not calling it that. — Joseph Jarman
In piano, if you try to force hitting this key and that key, it's very broken. It's not pretty. When you're in archery, you can't… — Miranda Leek
Talking to actors is the same as talking to any other artists; it's getting into the moment for them, and making sure they can lose… — Jennifer Yuh Nelson
I think we can rule out 'mixed brain dominance' as a cause of your poor performance at school, Charlie Brown" "Have you ruled out stupidity?"… — Charles M. Schulz
All athletic accomplishments begin with volition; that is, the desire and willpower necessary to succeed. Volition affects more than thoughts and feelings - it affects… — Charles Garfield
As a leader, parent, or friend - don't let someone's poor attitude and poor performance hinder your commitment to holding them to higher standards. You… — Hal Elrod
I never considered myself a performance artist. — Agnes Denes
I'm one of those pathetic actors who will say yes to every play reading just because I do miss the stage so much. What I… — Julianna Margulies
It's disheartening that animal people criticize societies that enlist the help of actors or organize creative acts like 'I'd rather go naked than wear fur,'… — Adela Popescu
You have to channel the interpretation and performance into 100 people. And with the audience, the critics. — Riccardo Muti
Promising is the very air o' th' time; it opens the eyes of expectation. Performance is ever duller for his act; and, but in the… — William Shakespeare
The wonder of an artist's performance grows with the range of his penetration, with the instinctive sympathy that makes him, in his mortal isolation, considerate… — George Santayana
The Yuppies are not defectors from revolt, they are a new race, assured, amnestied, exculpated, moving with ease in the world of performance, mentally indifferent… — Jean Baudrillard
Have you set high standards in the past that make it clear what level of performance you demand? — Tom Peters
When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance it becomes literature. — Raymond Chandler
Trying to imagine E. M. Forster, who found Ulysses indecorous, at a London performance of Lenny Bruceâ€”to which in fact he was once taken. Trying… — David Markson
I believe that we learn by practice... it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which come shape… — Martha Graham
Although the outlook is clouded by a number of uncertainties, the central tendencies of the projections .. imply continued good economic performance in the United… — Alan Greenspan
A mockingbird... was heard to blend the songs of 32 different kinds of birds into a 10 minute performance, a virtuoso display that served no… — Tom Robbins

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