Performance Quotes
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A great performance like Lady Macbeth may be forgotten. Writing endures.
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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.
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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.
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Your success isn’t about you and your performance. It’s about us and how we perceive your performance.
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It is the performance of the business that matters. It is hard enough to figure out the future of the business. Do not try to figure out the future of the country or the world; focus on the business.
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History has a way of coming back to you. In the case of Janis Joplin appearing at the festival in 1968, her performance affected the life of a Bostonian who is now a member of the Newport Festivals Foundation Board of Directors. Ward Mooney was so affected and emotionally involved in Janis’ performance at Newport, that when he heard the festival was going nonprofit, he knew wanted to become a part. Janis was beautiful, gracious and respectful, and the power of her Newport performance continues to live on.
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Baseball performance is an outcome of opposing forces.
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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.
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I don't say that I never feel fear before a performance, but I have learned to channel it.
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True material welfare is never inconsistent with performance of religious obligations.
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The intensity with which Janis Joplin sings, you simply can't find a singer like that. It's almost scary the amount of emotion and energy and passion she puts into her performance.
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I'm worried because of my mother, she's going to see my performance and she's quite hard. She's going to see me naked. And my Dad, woah. Yeah, they're going to see me like a woman, you know?
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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.
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For the actors, there's something very important about that first showing of the scene to the crew, becomes like a little 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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The best kind of performance review is no performance review.
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Any player coming to Spurs whether he's a big signing or just a ground staff boy must be dedicated to the game and to the club. He must be prepared to work at his game. He must never be satisfied with his last performance, and he must hate losing.
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Performance became part of my art in a way - expressing things and emotion.
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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.
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I have learned from my experiences in this industry that there is absolutely no way to control people's opinions on your performance in your movie. You go out there, promote your film and hope people like the work you did.
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We are so proud of the entire team's performance today in tough conditions.
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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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I treat every time I walk on the stage like it's the performance of my life.
