Perform Quotes

Playing guitar was one of my childhood hobbies, and I had played a little at school and at camp. My parents would drag me out to perform for my family, like all parents do, but it was a hobby - nothing more.

The best thing is being able to perform in front of people and to express my feelings, whatever they may be at the time. Just to be able to make the world a happier place to be.

You can work on the saxophone alone, but ultimately you must perform with others.

People in positions of power and privilege have a duty to perform at a higher level. If not them, then who?

I really don't get nervous when I perform -it's more of an exciting feeling than anything else. But put me in a classroom with kids my age and have me take a test and yeah, I'll be nervous!

It's always performing for me. I write and I record so I can perform. It all ties to that. I've done it since I was a little kid. That's my absolute rush, is playing for different people every night, bringing something else to the table they've never seen.

After six or seven performances of any song, you begin to perform it rather than feel it.

I had to perform at the White House for the president, That's always kind of a weird set to try to put together.

I perform for soldiers because they are important.

It's not really that I didn't want to perform at all. What I didn't want to do was try to put together a band, rehearse, on my own. You know what I mean?

We all perform our lives in a way. And the actor is a perfect metaphor to get at that theme of 'how do we find our authentic selves?' And that we all - whether we're actors or not - perform ourselves. As a way of searching. As a way of fumbling around and trying to say, is this my voice? Is this who I am?

I just wanted to perform, to sing, dance and act.

We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.

People at .08 are too impaired to drive. Studies show that at .08, the ability to perform critical driving functions is decreased by as much as 60 percent.

I feel incompetent to perform duties... which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me.

I am putting pressure on myself to do my best and perform to my potential.

I'm always nervous when I perform anyway.

Without any assistance whatever, I founded a school in Weimar in 10 years. Only I could perform certain works with the scanty means that I dared not ask anyone else to work with.

If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist.

I cannot control what goes on in another lane and this is how I focus on the Games. There is no point in being nervous of other swimmers. It's just about focusing on yourself and what you need to do in order to perform at your best.

A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today's military rejects include tomorrow's hard-core unemployed.

You can perform all kind of characters but you cannot change what people feel for you.

Remember, while the work can sometimes appear to be simple to a viewer, the ability to perform expertly, consistently, precisely, over and over again, under pressure and on demand is what's needed.

Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.

Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.

I'm much more used to the TV shows, which are demanding to write and perform but very fulfilling.

I love to go on tour and perform. I love all the parts of the process.

I've had a lot of fun, and when I talk to kids in journalism schools, I say, look, I know what the journalism teachers tell you that this is a great way to perform public service and all that, but I say the main reason, if you decide what you want to do is be a reporter, the main reason you want to do it is because it's just so much fun.

If your movies don't perform, they just stop calling you.