Performance Quotes
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Chance in music doesn't have to involve the I Ching or rolling dice or throwing yarrow stalks. It can involve an out-of-tune guitar, or other impossible-to-replicate moments of awkwardness - even more so than an awkward, out-of-tune live performance, because there's something incredible about the way that an out-of-tune guitar becomes part of the song on a record. I won't be precious and say it's part of the composition - that's nonsensica l - but chance occurrences are so crucial to what's distinctive. It's the fingerprints all over so many of these recordings.
David Grubbs -
[Attributional] factors serve as conveyors of efficacy information that influence performance largely through their intervening effects on self-percepts of efficacy.
Albert Bandura
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I thought the world of live performance and busking was where I was going to thrive. I had no idea that digital streaming platforms and radio and that world would be for me, you know?
Tones and I -
In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance... you thrive on that.
Bill Gates -
Misbeliefs in one's inefficacy may retard development of the very subskills upon which more complex performances depend.
Albert Bandura -
Every time you compete, try harder to improve on your last performance. Give nothing short of your very best effort.
Elgin Baylor -
It is shocking. We haven't had a performance like this before. We've always found a way to move the ball and score points, and today we just couldn't do anything. I wish I had a reason why. We've had bad games before where the next week you come in and work on something and hopefully get better, but this performance is one we'll have to think about for the next several months.
Eli Manning -
Preaching is not the performance of an hour. It is the outflow of a life. It takes twenty years to make a sermon because it takes twenty years to make the man. The true sermon is a thing of life. The sermon grows because the man grows.
Edward McKendree Bounds
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For me, everything is a performance.
Christine and the Queens -
The First Law: Performance drives success, but when performance can’t be measured, networks drive success.
Albert-Laszlo Barabasi -
There's nothing like watching a live performance of, frankly, anything. You have to make sure that people believe everything is improvised. I could not stress enough how little we [actors] prepare and what small amount of time we put in before these shows.
Amy Poehler -
Public Schools too often fail because they are shielded from the very force that improves performance and sparks innovation in nearly every other human enterprise - competition.
Bob Lutz -
People look at me as some bruiser, but I want to entertain people. I want people to applaud. I want to be the cause of people being happy, their emotions changing, to tell me I did a good performance.
Mike Tyson -
I still get nervous before every performance.
Engelbert Humperdinck
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It's 14 years since I left the club and that first-half performance was the worst I've seen since. It was devoid of quality, devoid of ideas, and worst of all, devoid of fight.
Alan Hansen -
An ounce of image is worth a pound of performance...
David Lee Roth Van Halen -
I think it was a gift. For that performance, silver is generous.
Sasha Cohen -
The really historical performance would talk to ghosts.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
The adequacy of performance attainments depends upon the personal standards against which they are judged.
Albert Bandura -
For me, the question was, how can one take a live-action performance and put it in the parameter of one of those cartoons? How much can you get away with?
Johnny Depp
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Trudeau valued performance above image. He Knew he could give me a shovel if there was a mess to clean up, and he kept moving me from one mess to another.
Jean Chretien -
I still haven't found that automatic robot to pump out the perfect performances. That is something I am still searching for.
Sasha Cohen -
Even noteworthy performance attainments do not necessarily boost perceived self-efficacy.
Albert Bandura -
The 70's and the 80's were a different time and there was so much fun in a live performance.
Usha Uthup