Performances Quotes
1471 Performances quotes by 1168 unique authors
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I am credited with being one of the hardest workers and perhaps I am, if thought is the equivalent of labour, for I have devoted…
— Nikola Tesla
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People underestimate the importance of dilligence as a virtue. No doubt it has something to do with how supremely mundane it seems. It is defined…
— Atul Gawande
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Chandresh relishes reactions. Genuine reactions, not mere polite applause. He often values the reactions over the show itself. A show without an audience is nothing,…
— Erin Morgenstern
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Though I still turn up my coat-collar in a lonely way and am always looking at myself in mirrors, they’re only habits and give no…
— Angela Carter
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Theater of Cruelty means a theater difficult and cruel for myself first of all. And, on the level of performance, it is not the cruelty…
— Antonin Artaud
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Take a minute: look at your goals, look at your performance, see if your behavior matches your goals.
— Ken Blanchard
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The longer I live the more I mistrust theatricality, the false glamour cast by performance, the more I know its poverty beside the truths we…
— Adrienne Rich
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Mood evidently affects the operation of System 1: when we are uncomfortable and unhappy, we lose touch with our intuition. These findings add to the…
— Daniel Kahneman
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And in situations where a man and a woman each receive negative feedback, the woman's self-confidence and self-esteem drop to a much greater degree. The…
— Sheryl Sandberg
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Those who believe they have pleased God by the quality of their devotion and moral goodness naturally feel that they and their group deserve deference…
— Timothy Keller
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Coaxing drunken Shadowhunters into making fools of themselves was a favorite occupation among the Downworlders, and this performance had been a tremendous success.
— Cassandra Clare
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At the end of each day, you should play back the tapes of your performance. The results should either applaud you or prod you.
— Jim Rohn
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Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond…
— Peter Drucker
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Dance is like wine; it matures with every performance.
— Unknown Author
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Dance every performance as if it were your last.
— Erik Bruhn
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Kind are her answers, But her performance keeps no day; Breaks time, as dancers. From their own Music when they stray.
— Thomas Campion
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It is difficult to see the great dance effects as they happen, to see them accurately, catch them fast in memory. It is even more…
— Martha Graham
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The dance, just as the performance of the actor, is kinesthetic art, art of the muscle sense. The awareness of tension and relaxation within his…
— Rudolf Arnheim
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So many dancers rely on some sort of magic happening on the stage. They never, for various reasons, work full out in rehearsal. That's very…
— Unknown Author
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The most extraordinary thing about a really good teacher is that he or she transcends accepted educational methods. Such methods are designed to help average…
— Margaret Mead
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