Top 1200 Great Performance Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Every time I see a live performance of something, I'm like, 'I want to be doing that!'

One of the privileges of doing television is the ability to evaluate my own performance and try to improve upon it.

I think some people ramp a side of themselves up for performance purposes.

[On Katharine Hepburn's stage performance:] She ran the whole gamut of emotions, from A to B.

The last thing that man will understand in nature is the performance of his brain.

Debra Winger doesn't let anything interfere with her performance, which is the way it should be.

A divinely expressed performance in any genre sets me completely on fire.

High performance people take action quickly and change their mind slowly!

Set excellent performance as your standard and strive to achieve it each day

What's fantastic is that there's a real growing appreciation for performance-capture technology as a tool for acting.

Do you realize that it is only in the gospel of Jesus Christ that you get the verdict before the performance?

So I'm one of the few celebrities that got to do a repeat performance on 'The Simpsons,' which I'm very flattered by.

To be able to research directly from firefighters makes all the difference in the world in the authenticity of a performance.

Maybe some people, when they sit down to write their great novel or make their great record or paint their great painting, they have it all planned out in their head. But for me, it's never worked that way.

You have to do a good job controlling the things you can control for performance and not get distracted by all the noise.

I might have some performance psychology support for individuals but... the best psychologist is the coach.

The thing that's characteristic of my performance is that I literally do drag the whole studio onto the stage.

For me, performance is about forgetting what I'm wearing. Just putting it on and knowing it's right.

When you have great players, playing great, well that's great football!

Investment performance doesn't determine real-life returns; investor behavior does.

I am Brazilian, and I can't offer my best performance if I'm not happy in every aspect of life.

If there is a well thought-out design standard, it should be followed. In practice, great design comes from great designers. That is empirically the case. If a great designer did a first-rate standard, that model should be followed. Great design is not democratic; it comes from great designers. If the standard is lousy, then develop another standard.

Have you set high standards in the past that make it clear what level of performance you demand?

Performance is something we all strive to be better at. I'm no different than that. Who wants to look bad?

Even noteworthy performance attainments do not necessarily boost perceived self-efficacy

Kasabian are wicked. They've got the hit songs, but it's the presence in the performance and the attitude with it that I love.

High performance leaders know they have to breathe out when they are coming up for air.

The adequacy of performance attainments depends upon the personal standards against which they are judged

How you measure the performance of your managers directly affects the way they act.

Sex -- the great inequality, the great miscalculator, the great Irritator.

Whatever else can be said about sex, it cannot be called a dignified performance.

My favorite thing that God gives is grace. It is without performance, free in Christ.

Live theater is an amorphous art, constantly shifting and evolving with every performance.

I come from the performance world, but the idea of a worship song is different. It's useful music.

Getting a win is nice but you have to have a dominant performance to make a run at that title, I believe.

Everybody is great when things are great. It's the 'not great' stuff that matters.

So many horses get stage fright when they enter the arena, and that's it - the performance is over.

When you're recording to analog tape, it captures performance and you can't necessarily manipulate that in different ways. It is what it is.

It's the disease of thinking that a having a great idea is really 90% of the work. And if you just tell people, 'here's this great idea,' then of course they can go off and make it happen. The problem with that is that there's a tremendous amount of craftsmanship between a having a great idea and having a great product.

When I put on a performance I always work so hard, so I have conditioning for 10, 15 rounds.

What is the elevation of the soul? A prompt, delicate, certain feeling for all that is beautiful, all that is grand; a quick resolution to do the greatest good by the smallest means; a great benevolence joined to a great strength and great humility.

Good is the enemy of great. And that is one of the key reasons why we have so little that becomes great. We don't have great schools, principally because we have good schools. We don't have great government, principally because we have good government. Few people attain great lives, in large part because it is just so easy to settle for a good life.

Henry is a great man, I really like him. He is a great professional and I think he will be a great captain for them. He's been the outstanding player in the Premiership for the last three or four years

Debra Winger doesn't let anything interfere with her performance, which is the way it should be

Our little pebble of poor performance helps to start, or to sustain, an avalanche.

Secular artists see themselves with performance; they are more self involved, presentational.

My father was a painter and an anarchist, always getting in trouble for his performance art.

I would never intend to hurt anyone I'm in the ring with. It's entertainment, it's a performance, it's a sport.

Mr. Lincoln was not only a great President, but a great man - too great to be small in anything. In his company I was never in any way reminded of my humble origin, or of my unpopular color.

I love live performance, but I am excited to try my hand at whatever comes my way.

Whatever you do in life, there's content and form; only those two put together create special meaning of a great work of art or great interpretation of music or a great story that you tell.

When markets are rallying, cash in the portfolio is a drag on performance, returning about zero.

There is always tension in women's gymnastics between athleticism, grace, performance, and eros.

People are inherently good. Our souls are magnificent and capable of extraordinary performance.

One of the great things about shooting in Los Angeles is you have access to all these great performers. We love working with ensembles, and that process of getting a great group of people together and setting them in motion.

Strive for excellence in few things, rather than good performance in many.

Some directors cast you because they trust you to do the performance - but then they forget to direct you.

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

Three languages - the video, the music and the live performance - are awesome to bring together.

Writing is very much perceived as something distinct from performance. I don't see it like that.