Performance Quotes
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I still get nervous before every performance.
Engelbert Humperdinck
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Onstage, I enjoy the thrill of live performance - there is no substitute for that rush. On camera I enjoy the crafting of a scene, the widespread creative marksmanship happening all around you for every second of footage. Onstage you can suddenly feel solitary, like it's all on your shoulders, while on camera you feel like there are so many people working with you on every shot. Those are each unique and gratifying challenges.
Bryce Pinkham
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A frequent change of role, and of the lighter sort - especially such as one does not like forcing one's self to use the very utmost of his ability in the performance of - is the training requisite for a mastery of the actor's art.
Edwin Booth
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The 70's and the 80's were a different time and there was so much fun in a live performance.
Usha Uthup
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I don't eat for pleasure; I eat for performance.
Bobby Lashley
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Maybe in life, most of us feel inferior because we compare our dress rehearsals to Janelle Monae’s final performance.
Bill Konigsberg
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Performance in an endurance sport, as with many things, is only as good as the weakest link.
Brendan Brazier
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For me, everything is a performance.
Christine and the Queens
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Preaching is not the performance of an hour. It is the outflow of a life. It takes twenty years to make a sermon because it takes twenty years to make the man. The true sermon is a thing of life. The sermon grows because the man grows.
Edward McKendree Bounds
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Because watercolor actually moves on the paper, it is the most active of all mediums, almost a performance art.
Nita Engle
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There are a million ways of arriving at a performance, any number of them solid.
Ali Farahnakian
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I am an athlete first and foremost, and it is vital for my competitiveness, my well being, and for my preparations for events during the European summer that I measure my performance against other athletes.
Caster Semenya
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I wanted to be a pro volleyball player, and I fell in love with performance and audience response. The pressure of performing and doing something that I love doing in front of people who were grateful to see it. That relationship sort of worked out to be acting and theatre.
Dan Payne
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Set higher standards for you own performance than anyone around you, and it won't matter whether you have a tough boss or an easy one. It won't matter whether the competition is pushing you hard, because you'll be competing with yourself.
Rick Pitino
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Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms.
Mahatma Gandhi
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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.
George Thorogood
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I thought the world of live performance and busking was where I was going to thrive. I had no idea that digital streaming platforms and radio and that world would be for me, you know?
Tones and I
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If exporters are looking at various factors which influence the performance, the fluctuating rupee will certainly be a factor.
Nirmala Sitharaman
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God gets the easiest performance reviews.
Daryl Gregory
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The non-doing of any evil, the performance of what's skillful, the cleansing of one's own mind: this is the teaching of the Awakened.
Gautama Buddha
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I think it was a gift. For that performance, silver is generous.
Sasha Cohen
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Even noteworthy performance attainments do not necessarily boost perceived self-efficacy.
Albert Bandura
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The Copyright Act of 1909 set the term for copyright of a musical composition to twenty-eight years, renewable for an additional twenty-eight, and for the first time included under copyright “public performance for profit.” That is, anyone playing or singing a copyrighted song had to pay for the right to do so. “Had to” but often didn’t: many bandleaders—and the restaurants and nightclubs that employed them—resisted paying anything to copyright holders, sometimes offering the justification that public performances stimulated sheet music sales.
Ben Yagoda
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A studio is like a meditation room where music is created. And a live performance is the place where the creation of the studio is taken ahead. I love both.
Shreya Ghoshal