Performance Quotes

My process is to be by myself when I record. It's quite an emotional performance to pull off when someone else is in the room. I prefer to go away and have my own time with it, bring it in later.

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

It is not a dreamlike state, but the somehow insulated state, that a great musician achieves in a great performance. He's aware of where he is and what he's doing, but his mind is on the playing of the instrument with an internal sense of rightness.

Wal-Mart hires average people but squeezes above average performance and results out of them.

I know I'm never as good or bad as one single performance. I've never believed in my critics or my worshippers, and I've always been able to leave the game at the arena.

I wasn't happy with my performance at the World Championships in Daegu. I had an unbelievable race in the heats, but misjudged the semi and finished last.

Giving a good performance, giving it all is what it's all about. I love to perform.

A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.

Your performance gets you promoted. It doesn't matter if you're brown, back or white.

An announcer is only as good as yesterday's performance.

Nutrition is also a valuable component that can help athletes both protect themselves and improve performance.

The development of a political-economic framework to explore long-run institutional change occupied me during all of the 1980s and led to the publication of Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance in 1990.

The obsession with performance left no room for the development of the intuitive or spiritual impact of space and form other than the aesthetic of the machine itself.

I've been onstage once for one performance with four days' rehearsal.

My strong point, if I have a strong point, is performance. I always do more than I say. I always produce more than I promise.

We're all so mauled by information, but it's recycled information. We need to shut it out. So, you've got to get bizarre. This is an artist's purpose - to break away from the recycled. Performance art can do that.

The trouble with the performance poets is that they don't seem to have read anything. So there is not a real sense of the poetic tradition in their work.

I was a dancer from a young age. My parents were dancers; we were taken to a lot of ballet as children. It occurred to me that what I liked more than dancing the steps was acting the story of whatever particular performance I was taking part in.

I preferred delivering my performance in person. I liked to be in control. You couldn't be in films.

The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance.

I get nervous every time, for every single performance, before getting up on that stage.

The fact that I like to make characters doesn't mean that I like to watch my characters being made, my performance.

Jackie considered his resurrection, the world's best return performance.

An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.

We need to make sure parents and coaches are aware of the dangers an on the look-out for the warning signs. Performance enhancing drugs are too damaging to young people for parents and coaches to not be involved.

If you have stage fright, it never goes away. But then I wonder: is the key to that magical performance because of the fear?

All you owe the public is a good performance.

People come up to me as I leave the stage after a performance and tell me tey saw my mother onstage with me every time I sing. I keep a sense of humor about it.

All I have is my performance, I try to feed in the best of everything that I could possibly do into those 90 minutes and to make a live entertainment show out of it.

There's so much to learn about acting and performance in general... I mean, acting is a very complex art, and there are a lot more theories and methods and techniques to it than I think anybody would think.