Performance Quotes
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Performance became part of my art in a way - expressing things and emotion.
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It is the repeated performance of just and temperate actions that produces virtue.
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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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If only it were as easy to do the work of others as it is to criticize their performance.
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I always wanted to give people the more exciting version of what I think a comedian should be - because I didn't grow up with comics, I grew up with rock 'n' roll. And when I saw a lot of comics, no matter how good they might have been material-wise, I would get a little bored with them after 10 minutes, only because I feel comedians don't really know performance.
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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.
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The best kind of performance review is no performance review.
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Performance constraints are good for creativity.
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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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I think the lawyers are such incredible actors. Can you imagine the performance they have to do every day?
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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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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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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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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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When you lack interest in the case the job will very likely lack skill and diligence in the performance.
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The Second Law: Performance is bounded, but success is unbounded.
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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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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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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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You know yourself what you are worth in your own eyes; and at what price you will sell yourself. For men sell themselves at various prices. This is why, when Florus was deliberating whether he should appear at Nero's shows, taking part in the performance himself, Agrippinus replied, 'Appear by all means.' And when Florus inquired, 'But why do not you appear?' he answered, 'Because I do not even consider the question.'
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True material welfare is never inconsistent with performance of religious obligations.
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The best way to improve mental performance, is to improve physical performance.
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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.
