Performances Quotes
1471 Performances quotes by 1168 unique authors
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Drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things . . . nose-painting, sleep, and urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes; it provokes the…
— William Shakespeare
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The best way to show respect to your fellow athletes is to give the best performance you can.
— Unknown Author
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The real secret of magic lies in the performance.
— David Copperfield
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The last thing that man will understand in nature is the performance of his brain.
— John Eccles
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From their maneuvers and their terrific speed I am certain their flight performance was greater than any aircraft known today.
— Unknown Author
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Once you become complacent and once you're happy with your performance or whatever it is, I don't think you'll get better as quickly.
— Blake Griffin
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Proper prior planning prevents pitiful poor performance.
— Don Meyer
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Evidence is conclusive that your self-talk has a direct bearing on your performance.
— Zig Ziglar
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After a while, your coaching development ceases to be about finding newer ways to organize practice. In other words, you soon stop collecting drills. Your…
— Anson Dorrance
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If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.
— Simon Rattle
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Some coaches believed they could judge a player's performance simply by watching it. In this they were deeply mistaken. The naked eye was an inadequate…
— Michael Lewis
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No matter how tough, no matter what kind of outside pressure, no matter how many bad breaks along the way, I must keep my sights…
— Billie Jean King
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To be successful in anything, a person must always want to be better, not only than your opponent but better than your last performance. Done…
— Hale Irwin
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It's the old story. You might be able to fool your coaches, or your teammates, or your opponents. But, you can never fool yourself in…
— Unknown Author
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Set goals for things you can control. In my case, I can't control the marks from the judges, but I can control how I train…
— Claire Carver-Dias
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The only way to maximize potential for performance is to be calm in the mind.
— Brian Sipe
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School performance, public health, crime rates, clinical depression, tax compliance, philanthropy, race relations, community development, census returns, teen suicide, economic productivity, campaign finance, even simple…
— Robert D. Putnam
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Remember this-that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Both renunciation of action and the performance of action lead to Nirvana (Liberation); but these performance of action is superior to renunciation of action. The…
— Chinmayananda Saraswati
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Public Schools too often fail because they are shielded from the very force that improves performance and sparks innovation in nearly every other human enterprise…
— Bob Lutz
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We are basically in the nicotine business. . . . Effective control of nicotine in our products should equate to a significant product performance and…
— R. J. Reynolds
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Companies have to nurture [creativity and motivation]-and have to do it by building a compassionate yet performance-driven corporate culture. In the knowledge economy the traditional…
— Gay Mitchell
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'Concentrate on measuring performance and winning will take care of itself'. That is a brilliant excuse for coming second...
— Clive Woodward
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We assert that integrity (the condition of being whole and complete) is a necessary condition for workability, and that the resultant level of workability determines…
— Werner Erhard
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Within weeks of our premiere, it became obvious that Leonard [Nimoy] and the character of Spock were becoming something of a national phenomenon. ... And…
— William Shatner
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