Performance Quotes
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In piano, if you try to force hitting this key and that key, it's very broken. It's not pretty. When you're in archery, you can't try to force it step-by-step-by-step. Then the shot doesn't flow and it's not a good shot. If you just let the performance flow, it's really beautiful.
Miranda Leek -
In such a performance you may lay the foundation of national happiness only in religion, not by leaving it doubtful "whether morals can exist without it," but by asserting that without religion morals are the effects of causes as purely physical as pleasant breezes and fruitful seasons.
Benjamin Rush
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The best kind of performance review is no performance review.
Aubrey Daniels -
If there is a better performance by a man in the history of film, I don't know what it is.
Elia Kazan -
If you mess up the performance on stage, you do it again the next night. You're like alright, you let yourself off the hook, and you've got to go back in there. Whereas, with a film, I would go home and be like, "Well, I've ruined the arc of the character forever. That scene is never going to work. I know because I can never shoot it again." So, it's all miserable, but in different ways.
Emma Stone -
We are currently touring with less special effects and props, focusing primarily on the music and the musical performance. It’s essentially what it’s all about, and I enjoy concentrating on that aspect of our musical catalogue.
Buck Dharma Blue Öyster Cult -
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Bob Horner -
The adrenaline of a live performance is unlike anything in film or theater. I can see why it's so addictive.
Gwyneth Paltrow
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There are a million ways of arriving at a performance, any number of them solid.
Ali Farahnakian -
When I did get signed and I was going around letting people know what I was about, that's exactly how I did it: me on the piano, playing a couple of songs I'd written and talking to the people in between. That's how I got my performance chops up.
Alicia Keys -
I love every aspect of live performance and putting our shows together and approaching it from the standpoint of, 'What would we want to see if we were a fan sitting in the audience?'
Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts -
Everyone in a company needs incentives, but they should be tied directly to the performance of the company.
Albert J. Dunlap -
Maybe in life, most of us feel inferior because we compare our dress rehearsals to Janelle Monae’s final performance.
Bill Konigsberg -
The White House is now essentially a TV performance.
Edmund Snow Carpenter
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The miracle of the Atonement can make up for imperfections in our performance.
Gary E. Stevenson -
Arrogance is a veneer -- a thin covering of excuses hiding deep performance deficiencies.
Bob Lewis -
To be able to research directly from firefighters makes all the difference in the world in the authenticity of a performance.
Miranda Rae Mayo -
I am a huge fan of Jessica Lange. I think her performance in Grey Gardens is amazing.
Boti Bliss -
But I tell you I was very proud of them, because they took it with such great class. Both of them. They said, 'We are not judges, we've done our best.' And it was a fabulous performance, and I am told that in Canada they had a strong reaction, and even in the United States.
Jean Chretien -
The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.
Bela Lugosi
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The sign of a great player is how much he elevates his colleagues' performance.
Phil Jackson -
I believe the time will come when the whole definition of pop music will change. It will get to the point where a song will not be a good song until it has a high level of creativity in writing and performance. In other words, in order to be popular, songs will have to meet these high standards.
Eunice Kathleen Waymon -
Because watercolor actually moves on the paper, it is the most active of all mediums, almost a performance art.
Nita Engle -
I am credited with being one of the hardest workers and perhaps I am, if thought is the equivalent of labour, for I have devoted to it almost all of my waking hours. But if work is interpreted to be a definite performance in a specified time according to a rigid rule, then I may be the worst of idlers.
Nikola Tesla