Performance Quotes
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Best performance of the year: Aston Villa v. Milan, September 1994
Alec Guinness
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Assessments should compare the performance of students to a set of expectations, never to the performance of other students.
Alfie Kohn
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When watching movies, I was always inspired by the performances of the cast. Of course, the story and the direction and all that intrigued me. But what actors would propel themselves to do, and be, was awesome. It was like, how could these people give so much?
Rinko Kikuchi
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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
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I'm not a photographer, so I didn't get into F-stops or ND filters or background, foreground, cross-light, all that stuff. But I was interested in the camera and the lenses. That's the world that I'm moving in, in terms of acting and giving a performance.
Keanu Reeves
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I'm no diva but I can be annoying in a recording studio. Of course I try to be a diva in terms of confidence of performance and owning a song but I've never behaved like one in terms of the negative connotations of the word.
Nicole Scherzinger
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If the web can be evolved to include the missing APIs and have better performance, [developers] won't need to go beyond the web.
Brendan Eich
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At times, I've been so absolutely terrified of what I was about to do, whether it was public speaking or performance. Whatever it was, sometimes it had me really, really shaking in my shoes, and I decided that I was going to do it no matter what. And, of course, the critic is there, and afterwards, there's this, "Was it good enough? Was it really all I wanted to say?"
Annie Lennox
Eurythmics
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When I did get signed and I was going around letting people know what I was about, that's exactly how I did it: me on the piano, playing a couple of songs I'd written and talking to the people in between. That's how I got my performance chops up.
Alicia Keys
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Sustaining innovations are the key to consistent performance, whereas disruptive innovations are the key to dramatic changes in power.
Geoffrey Moore
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Every time you compete, try harder to improve on your last performance. Give nothing short of your very best effort.
Elgin Baylor
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When we shoot 24, there are so many things I have to worry about, from the script to technical things to my performance, that I dont have a second to be bored or take anything for granted. We produce 24 hours of film a season, which is like making 12 movies.
Kiefer Sutherland
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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
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The only performance that makes it, that really makes it, that makes it all the way, is the one that achieves madness.
Mick Jagger
The Rolling Stones
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We are deeply saddened to hear about the passing of Jonathan Hardy. The clever wit and joy he brought to his performance of Rygel was a true gift to the world of Farscape. My sincerest condolences go out to Jonathan's family and to his many fans around the world.
Brian Henson
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I like a performance, a live performance, so I like little mistakes because that's what makes perfect - the mistakes.
Jorja Smith
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Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance. . . . There will always be the false snobbery which tries to place one vocation above another. You will become a member of the aristocracy in the American sense only if your accomplishments and integrity earn this appellation.
James Bryant Conant
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I let the performance speak for itself.
Darrell Wallace Jr.
