Performance Quotes
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When you lack interest in the case the job will very likely lack skill and diligence in the performance.
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The best kind of performance review is no performance review.
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The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.
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In competitive archery, risk assessment has minimal bearing on quality of performance, since the archer has so little choice over shot selection. By contrast, in a hunt, shots vary in quality according to how well selected they may be.
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It is the repeated performance of just and temperate actions that produces virtue.
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A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I've seen actors do that. But often it's a mechanical transformation, which isn't as interesting, and you've got to be careful how you go about something like that, I think.
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Turkey wants to be treated by the same standards as other countries. If you compare us to some other newly accepted EU members our performance, especially in terms of the economy, is much better.
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When you're writing something new, writing something that's your own, basically you have nothing else to do except either invent a trick, use someone else's trick, or have no trick and get a bad performance.
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Once you recognize that all documentaries are performance, it's not a matter of 'if' they should be performance. They are performance, and they are performance precisely where people are playing themselves.
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If only it were as easy to do the work of others as it is to criticize their performance.
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Performance constraints are good for creativity.
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I don't particularly love live performance of my music. I love writing and recording, but you can't make money off of that.
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I think the lawyers are such incredible actors. Can you imagine the performance they have to do every day?
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When I first thought about becoming Jane Austen I had to forget about the fear, or at least choose something else to focus on because it was becoming paralysing, I couldn't focus. I felt frightened, not so much by her fans' reaction to my performance but that I would be playing someone who I think is a legend, who I respect and admire so much. I didn't want to fail, so I was putting a lot of pressure on myself.
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It is very challenging to have a kind of data-driven, performance-oriented culture and to do progressive pedagogy. These things don't naturally, or easily, go together.
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When you're doing the same scene over and over, all day long, you need to keep your levels up for your own performance and for the other actors.
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The Second Law: Performance is bounded, but success is unbounded.
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Force that the performance of duty naturally generates is the non-violent and invincible force that satyagraha brings into being.
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Arrogance is a veneer -- a thin covering of excuses hiding deep performance deficiencies.
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True material welfare is never inconsistent with performance of religious obligations.
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A certain rough-around-the-edges improvisational looseness - a sense of something coming together before your eyes, or not quite - may be one of the things that distinguishes performance art from theater.
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Sometimes when I see a performance that really takes me, I struggle. How can I express this to this person, I want this person to know how I felt. I want to get this across, and it's not very easy.
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All magic is about transformation... the performance magician is telling you that you are the magician in your own life. You are the agent of transformation, your own transformation.
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The team spirit was amazing. The key was our second-half performance. We didn't play as much rugby as we would have liked and we didn't play too smartly in the last five minutes.
