Performance Quotes

The Imperial German Government will not expect the Government of the United States to omit any word ...

Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed ...

If you don’t see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.

There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to ri...

Pop stardom is not very compelling. I'm much more interested in a relationship between performer and...

To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active bla...

In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like cust...

I never missed a birthday. I never missed a school play. We carpooled. And the greatest compliment I...

The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.

The place trembled with sound. I didn't need to do anything. They would do it all. But you had to be...

I come from a much freer kind of performance thing, where I rely on my own improv and my own sense o...

It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of...

In the early days, I might have gotten on stage and begun to sing as a desperate attempt to communic...

Powerpoint presentations are a kind of theater, a kind of augmented stand-up. Too often it's a borin...

In musical performances one can sense that the person on stage is having a good time even if they're...

One forgets that part of one's performance is one's history—or sometimes the lack of it. You're play...

I also realized that there were lots of unacknowledged theater forms going on all around. Our lives ...

There are two conversations going on at the same time: the story and a conversation about how the st...

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of br...

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something...

It turns out that if you optimize the performance of a car and of an airplane, they are very far awa...

Royalties are not how most writers or musicians make their living. Musicians by and large make a liv...

Don't mistake activity with achievement.

Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonst...

The form of computers has never been important, with speed and performance being the only things tha...

When we talk about my gender as though it were a performance, we let the audience - with all their e...

We change our attitudes, our careers, our relationships. Even our age changes minute by minute. We c...

We gotta be willing to let it hurt. You know, all this notion that acting is “yeah it’s pretend” and...

The relationship with the cast has everything to do with how a performance develops, and in a sense ...

There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed...

I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to ...

I believe that poems die the moment they are outwardly expressed.

One of the things that I've always thought I would like to do is to develop an environmental index. ...

A human being always acts and feels and performs in accordance with what he imagines to be true abou...

For me, the performance was always playing different people. And so when I got older, was no longer ...

I can only control my own performance. If I do my best, then I can feel good at the end of the day.

I can't say this enough - the food that you put into your bodies can actually help you get better gr...

If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn't be here. I gu...

The only performance that makes it, that makes it all the way is the one that achieves madness.

I dare suggest that the composer would do himself and his music an immediate and eventual service by...

I've been looking at some video clips on YouTube of President Obama - then candidate Obama - going t...

The real test of a musician is live performance. It's one thing to spend a long time learning how to...

Dave and Serge...played the Fiddler's Elbow as if it were Giants Stadium, and even though it was aco...

There is no doubt that some plant food, such as oatmeal, is more economical than meat, and superior ...

Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an ...

A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.

I loved it when my heart beat quickly and erratically. Yet I found this performance, which was deepl...

When I first started designing sportswear, I felt that women weren't represented in sports performan...

Computers double their performance every month.

In '83, not only was there no such thing as performance motion capture technology, there was no such...

If you have stage fright, it never goes away. But then I wonder: is the key to that magical performa...

My last public performance for money was in 1967. For free, it was 1972, with the exception of two l...

Making a record? You've got to have the song, then you create a record. I think it's the same with a...

Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it.

I like the detail work of telling a story in small pieces, as is done in movie-making, and also the ...