Performance Quotes

• When you're recording to analog tape, it captures performance and you can't necessarily manipulate that in different ways. It is what it is.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Performance
  • Ways
  • Recording

• In his very rejection of art Walt Whitman is an artist. He tried to produce a certain effect by certain means and he succeeded....He stands apart, and the chief value of his work is in its prophecy, not in its performance. He has begun a prelude to larger themes. He is the herald to a new era. As a man he is the precursor of a fresh type. He is a factor in the heroic and spiritual evolution of the human being. If Poetry has passed him by, Philosophy will take note of him.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Work
  • Human
  • Philosophy

• Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Time
  • Music
  • Why

• It was an amazing performance because it's not easy to sit through a long rain delay and have the same intensity. It's not easy to start and stop, and that's what Matt did successfully. When you start and stop, it's easy to bow out of the situation, but he didn't do it. And he was rewarded for it.

  

  Gabe Kapler
  • Amazing
  • Rain
  • Intensity

• Early in my career, I had difficulty breathing during workouts and my performance on the ice suffered. It wasn't until I was diagnosed with EIB and received the proper treatment that I was able to reach my peak performance.

  

  Apolo Ohno
  • Career
  • Performance
  • Workouts

• I was charmed by a performance given by Crowded House at Toronto's Massey Hall where the bass player broke a string.

  

  Alannah Myles
  • Performance
  • Bass Player
  • Charmed

• If you look at the performance of the zero-income-tax-rate states and the highest-income-tax-rate states, I believe a large amount of their difference is due to taxes. Not only is it true of the last decade, but I took these numbers back 50 years. And, there's not one year in the last 50 where the zero-income-tax-rate states have not outperformed the highest-income-tax-rate states.

  

  Arthur Laffer
  • Believe
  • True
  • Taxes

• 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
  • Way
  • Achieve
  • Performance

• 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
  • People
  • Changing
  • Bruiser

• Gendered performance is just constant theater.

  

  Christine and the Queens
  • Performance
  • Theater
  • Gendered

• What I love about analogue is it really forces you to go for a performance. I hear these young bands play perfect and they've been manipulated so much that there's not much personality to them. It's taken away some of the rawness and immediacy you get from a human performance.

  

  Butch Vig Garbage
  • I Love
  • Manipulated
  • Analogue

• [Attributional] factors serve as conveyors of efficacy information that influence performance largely through their intervening effects on self-percepts of efficacy.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • Information
  • Factors
  • Efficacy

• There are all kinds of things that can be done. You can change rhythms, you can change chords, you can change whole concepts. But it will only work, on a record or in a performance, if you can make the people buy it.

  

  Eunice Kathleen Waymon
  • Work
  • Change
  • Rhythms

• Misbeliefs in one's inefficacy may retard development of the very subskills upon which more complex performances depend.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • May
  • Development
  • Complex

• Set higher standards for your own performance than anyone else around you, and your only competition will be with yourself.

  

  Rick Pitino
  • Competition
  • Performance
  • Standards

• Onstage, I enjoy the thrill of live performance - there is no substitute for that rush. On camera I enjoy the crafting of a scene, the widespread creative marksmanship happening all around you for every second of footage. Onstage you can suddenly feel solitary, like it's all on your shoulders, while on camera you feel like there are so many people working with you on every shot. Those are each unique and gratifying challenges.

  

  Bryce Pinkham
  • Scene
  • Camera
  • Onstage

• The adequacy of performance attainments depends upon the personal standards against which they are judged.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • Standards
  • Adequacy
  • Attainments

• Religious extremists want to show us that the only possibility is for us to kill each other, so September 11 is not only heinous murder, it is also global performance. It is also putting an idea into the world, an idea of destruction.

  

  Eboo Patel
  • Kill
  • Possibility
  • Murder

• 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
  • People
  • Up
  • Couple

• Every time you compete, try harder to improve on your last performance. Give nothing short of your very best effort.

  

  Elgin Baylor
  • Time
  • Effort
  • Performance

• Discrepancies between self-efficacy judgment and performance will arise when either the tasks or the circumstances under which they are performed are ambiguous.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • Circumstances
  • Judgment
  • Discrepancies

• Sustaining innovations are the key to consistent performance, whereas disruptive innovations are the key to dramatic changes in power.

  

  Geoffrey Moore
  • Power
  • Dramatic
  • Innovations

• Assessments should compare the performance of students to a set of expectations, never to the performance of other students.

  

  Alfie Kohn
  • Students
  • Performance
  • Assessments

• Out of the performance of duties flow rights, and those that knew and performed their duties came naturally by their rights.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Performance
  • Rights
  • Duties

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