Performance Quotes

• If exporters are looking at various factors which influence the performance, the fluctuating rupee will certainly be a factor.

  

  Nirmala Sitharaman
  • Performance
  • Factors
  • Exporter

• Because watercolor actually moves on the paper, it is the most active of all mediums, almost a performance art.

  

  Nita Engle
  • Performance
  • Paper
  • Watercolors

• I think the lawyers are such incredible actors. Can you imagine the performance they have to do every day?

  

  Monica Bellucci
  • Imagine
  • Lawyers
  • Incredible

• If only it were as easy to do the work of others as it is to criticize their performance.

  

  Dan Poynter
  • Work
  • Performance
  • Criticize

• The Second Law: Performance is bounded, but success is unbounded.

  

  Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
  • Success
  • Performance
  • Bounded

• 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.

  

  Iwan Rheon
  • Actors
  • Scene
  • Performance

• 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.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Great
  • Interesting
  • Actor

• Baseball performance is an outcome of opposing forces.

  

  Andrew Zimbalist
  • Baseball
  • Performance
  • Outcome

• 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.

  

  Andrew Dice Clay
  • Comedian
  • Comics
  • No Matter

• I never played for records. If I had played for records, then I would have had many more runs against my name. If, by your performance, the team wins, then that is what is most gratifying.

  

  Mohammad Azharuddin
  • Never
  • Against
  • Gratifying

• I don't say that I never feel fear before a performance, but I have learned to channel it.

  

  Claudio Arrau
  • Fear
  • Learned
  • Channel

• Remember your six P's - Perfect Practice Prevents Piss Poor Performance.

  

  Chuck Knox
  • Remember
  • Performance
  • Prevents

• The validity of g is most conspicuous in scholastic performance, not because g-loaded tests measure specifically what is taught in school, but because g is intrinsic to learning novel material, grasping concepts, distinctions, and meanings... The most critical tool for scholastic learning beyond the primary grades— reading comprehension—is probably the most highly g-loaded attainment in the course of elementary education.

  

  Arthur Jensen
  • Education
  • Reading
  • Performance

• There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment - and you start to decline.

  

  Andy Grove
  • History
  • Moment
  • Company

• There is something that you have that no one else ever had ... When you watch Kirk's Douglas performance in anything, in anything he's ever done, you cannot take your eyes off of him. It's not possible to look away from him.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Performance
  • Kirk`s Douglas

• Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Duty
  • Performance
  • Morality

• 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.

  

  Roberta Smith
  • Something
  • Certain
  • Improvisational

• When a director narrates a character, I find it normal to ask questions about the character's background, mood swings, eccentricities, behaviour... I do this to make my performance relatable. Directors who don't know their characters well find it difficult to answer these questions and, hence, find me annoying.

  

  Radha Ravi
  • Character
  • Directors
  • Narrates

• Women don't want equal treatment, they couldn't handle it if they got it. It's a tough world out there. What a lot of women are actually looking for is special treatment. What women need to realise is that they have to toughen up, we can't ask for equal pay, you have to be paid on performance and the results you deliver.

  

  Katie Hopkins
  • World
  • Women
  • Equal

• Defeat is a wonderful experience if it motivates you to never forget you're only as good as your last performance.

  

  Paul Heyman
  • Forget
  • Performance
  • Defeat

• Design patterns should not be applied indiscriminately. Often they achieve flexibility and variability by introducing additional levels of indirection, and that can complicate a design and/or cost you some performance. A design pattern should only be applied when the flexibility it affords is actually needed.

  

  Erich Gamma
  • Performance
  • Patterns
  • Complicate

• If you want to judge the performance of the Egyptian people by the standards of German or Chinese or American culture, then there is no room for judgment.

  

  Mohammed Morsi
  • People
  • American
  • Standards

• Rapturous and full bodied performance.

  

  Deborah Jowitt
  • Performance
  • Rapturous
  • Bodied

• Mistakes can be like ice. If we resist them, we may keep on slipping into a posture of defeat. If we include mistakes in our definition of performance, we are likely to glide through them and appreciate the beauty of the longer run.

  

  Benjamin Zander
  • Beauty
  • Mistakes
  • Defeat

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