Performance Quotes

I also realized that there were lots of unacknowledged theater forms going on all around. Our lives are filled with performances that have been so woven into our daily routine that the artificial and performative aspect has slipped into invisibility.

David Byrne

Powerpoint presentations are a kind of theater, a kind of augmented stand-up. Too often it's a boring and tedious genre, and audiences are subjected to the bad as well as the good.

David Byrne

My wit is only as stupid as the audience.

Aleksandra Ninkovic

If you can't bring yourself to applaud because the performance was lousy, then applaud because it's over. They tried.

Mark W Boyer

An applause is not just the recognition of good performance, but its proof of being different than the crowd.

Amit Kalantri

Comparable specification Windows 10 computers from multiple manufacturers can have very different performance between them.

Steven Magee

The value-added Board brings the high-performance result, “deep common sense,” balance, improved strategic thinking, creativity, wisdom and more.

Pearl Zhu

Putting words onto paper—when it is done as an honest act of search or connection, rather than as an act of manipulation, performance, self-aggrandizement or self-protection—is a holy act.

Pat Schneider

When you win nothing hurts.

Joe Namath

Nobody ever washes a rental car.

Scott J. Simmerman Ph.D.

We gotta be willing to let it hurt. You know, all this notion that acting is “yeah it’s pretend” and yes we enjoy it and yeah we can have a good time with it. But if you wanna LAND, you wanna make an impact, you want those FUCKERS TO REMEMBER YOU! Then you have to let it hurt sometimes. You gotta get there because that’s all an audience ever wants. Is for you to open up your chest and show them that you have a fucking heart. That’s all we want. A heart. A human being. Not an affectation.

Kevin Spacey

Street performances?""A little singing. A little martial arts. Some interpretive dance.""Wow.""I know! The Portuguese have taste.

Nico and Gleeson Hedge

Love is 100% percent practical, oral performance is an ultimate turn-off, whether you like it or not.

Michael Bassey Johnson

There is no such thing as an “independent artist”. All artists are essentially co-dependent of the audience.

Natasha Tsakos

Hitting "like" on a social media platform is the modern day version of clapping at the end of a performance.

J.R. Rim

Any place you compromise in principle you will execute in performance.

Johnnie Dent Jr.

When we talk about my gender as though it were a performance, we let the audience - with all their expectations, prejudices, and presumptions - completely off the hook. - Scott Turner Schofield

Kate Bornstein

We change our attitudes, our careers, our relationships. Even our age changes minute by minute. We change our politics, our moods, and our sexual preferences. We change our outlook, we change our minds, we change our sympathies. Yet when someone changes hir gender, we put hir on some television talk show. Well, here’s what I think: I think we all of us do change our genders. All the time. Maybe it’s not as dramatic as some tabloid headline screaming “She Was A He!” But we do, each of us, change our genders. In response to each interaction we have with a new or different person, we subtly shift the kind of man or woman, boy or girl, or whatever gender we’re being at the moment. We’re usually not the same kind of man or woman with our lover as we are with our boss or a parent. When we’re introduced for the first time to someone we find attractive, we shift into being a different kind of man or woman than we are with our childhood friends. We all change our genders.

Kate Bornstein

When you step from the wings onto the stage you go from total blackness to a blinding hot glare. After a moment you adjust, but there is that moment. like being inside lightning.

Meg Howrey

Without any music, I started to dance. I wanted the music to be inside me, or at least for it to appear that way. I imagined myself the lead with an audience here to see me perform in a famous ballet. In my fantasy, there was no panic attack. I was free to dance. Free to be me.

Lesa Howard

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

Twyla Tharp

Don't wait for a huge platform before you give of your best performance

Bernard Kelvin Clive

One forgets that part of one's performance is one's history—or sometimes the lack of it. You're playing against what an audience knows, what they expect. This seems to be true of all performers; there's baggage that gets carried into the venue that we can't see.

David Byrne

This was our last night. We only had one curtain call, Bree. And I thought they were going to give us a standing ovation, but no-o-o-. Do you know why half the audience stood up?""To get a head start on the traffic," Bree said."To get a head start on the traffic," Antonia agreed in indignation. "I mean, here we are, dancing and singing our little guts out, and all those folks want to do is get to bed early. I ask you, whatever happened to common courtesy? Whatever happened to decent manners? Doesn't anyone care about craft anymore? And on top of that, it's not even nice.

Mary Stanton

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

Mick Jagger

The last goose in the column is flying just as high.

Marty Rubin

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

Maurice Maeterlinck

How does a person perform nobly in Hell?" I asked her."You plant flowers," she hissed. "You feed the birds, while they're burning...

Amberle L. Husbands

Our teens are embedded in a culture driven by competition and perfectionism, where success is defined by status, performance and their appearance.

Auliq-Ice

People who like their job will give it their best. Those who don't, show it by a poor performance.

Ellen J. Barrier

When we perform at our highest level of potential, we are content. Because we have given I best in what we enjoy doing.

Ellen J. Barrier

One play down and 497 to Go!

Ray S. Jones

If EXCELLENCE is one of your values, not only you self-critic and evaluate your performance consistently, you BEG others for honest feedback...

Assegid Habtewold

What if Theater was the Pong of the the digital Ping?A place where the live experience has an function?

Natasha Tsakos

It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.

Isaac Disraeli

Half of what we do depends on how smart we are, the other half depends upon how we do it

James E. Brown Jr.

So many of us have believed that we need to labor and perform for God so that we can gain an identity, so that we might be accepted. But in the Kingdom, we start off accepted.

Beni Johnson

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

David Byrne

Conversation often becomes mere verbal performance and oral horseplay rather than fair-minded communication. (“Juicy rumours “)

Erik Pevernagie

You don’t have to compete with any one. Seek to outdo your own performance. You will always be happy.

Lailah Gifty Akita

High performers whom exhibit tremendous self-control tend to be burden by their own competence. Studies indicate that being extraordinary competent can place a person under an unusual amount of stress because it raises other people’s expectation of them. The more task that an exemplary employee produces with a ‘go-getting personality’ while maintaining high quality relationships with peers and clients, the more an organization tends to underestimates their actual effort and the more it expects of them. Other people do not comprehend how difficult it is for a high performer to complete multifaceted tasks. They also tend to underestimate how much effort an enterprising person exerts who maintains a positive and pleasant attitude while completing difficult assignments.

Kilroy J. Oldster

One American in seven has no coverage, and one in three younger than sixty-five will lose coverage at some point in the next two years. These are people who aren't poor or old enough to qualify for government programs but whose jobs aren't good enough to provide benefits either.

Atul Gawande

A healthy company culture is a set of norms and behaviors that support high performance and supports the team as they move towards ultimate success. Visit these norms regularly. Everybody visits them regularly, from the CEO to the Truck Drivers.

Beth Ramsay

The Self Care Formula is simple-NITO(5R). Nutrients In & Toxins Out in the 5 Realms (Mental, Emotional, Physical, Environmental, Spiritual).

Nina Leavins

When the body is in trouble, we must find and eliminate the cause, not medicate the symptom

Nina Leavins

Your ability to show discretion defines your likeliness to contribute to a wholesome performance.

Even Engesland

The speech fascinated him. His ear caught the rhythm of it and he noted their idioms and worked some of them into his patter. He had found the reason behind the peculiar, drawling language of the old carny hands—it was a composite of all the sprawling regions of the country. A language which sounded Southern to Southerners, Western to Westerners. It was the talk of the soil and its drawl covered the agility of the brains that poured it out. It was a soothing, illiterate, earthy language.

William Lindsay Gresham

I always said I'm just an instrument; I'm transparent, like a medium, the language passes through me. Which is a bit like saying I'm a recording device, I start and I go. I had a real connection to ongoing, language production in real time.

Constance Dejong

Change does not surface when you are not ready to be the catalyst. Your reaction matters, not your inaction.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Dining at the rare reasonTo get between the circumstanceAnd start milking the Caesars For what enters the earsAnd is for their eyes to air and advise.

Initially NO

On any day - in any given event - you have to believe in yourself and back yourself 100%

Rasheed Ogunlaru

If you can't please yourself some of the time, how do you expect to please people all the time? Not everyone is going to appreciate you for your efforts and deeds.

Anthony Liccione

Till mirrors were Invented, Face was not You, Not Even part of Your Performance.

Vineet Raj Kapoor

Not one word was said by Moses or Aaron as to the wickedness of depriving a human being of his liberty. Not a word was said in favor of liberty. Not the slightest intimation that a human being was justly entitled to the product of his own labor. Not a word about the cruelty of masters who would destroy even the babes of slave mothers. It seems to me wonderful that this God did not tell the king of Egypt that no nation could enslave another, without also enslaving itself; that it was impossible to put a chain around the limbs of a slave, without putting manacles upon the brain of the master. Why did he not tell him that a nation founded upon slavery could not stand? Instead of declaring these things, instead of appealing to justice, to mercy and to liberty, he resorted to feats of jugglery. Suppose we wished to make a treaty with a barbarous nation, and the president should employ a sleight-of-hand performer as envoy extraordinary, and instruct him, that when he came into the presence of the savage monarch, he should cast down an umbrella or a walking stick, which would change into a lizard or a turtle; what would we think? Would we not regard such a performance as beneath the dignity even of a president? And what would be our feelings if the savage king sent for his sorcerers and had them perform the same feat? If such things would appear puerile and foolish in the president of a great republic, what shall be said when they were resorted to by the creator of all worlds? How small, how contemptible such a God appears!

Robert G. Ingersoll

If you are not angry with your average performance, you can't effect a change! You must get upset to grab the energy to break the fence confining you!

Israelmore Ayivor

Specialization, concentration and consistency is the key to outstanding performance... Love your zone!

Israelmore Ayivor

In an environment where there is a shared vision of excellence, where people can be the best they can be on a daily basis, where they know what is expected of them, understand that reward is linked to performance, and believe they can make a difference because they will be heard, they will make a difference. They will go beyond our expectations and great things will happen.

Frederick Smith

If you want to break through to higher levels of performance, you must allow yourself to be restructured.

William A. Adams

No man is ordinary, only their performances are ordinary.

Amit Kalantri

A performance does not capture or communicate with the mood and feelings of that very moment.

Unarine Ramaru

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