Performers Quotes
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I think Elvis loved his fans - I think that's why they loved him and still love him. Fans are very conscious and sensitive to the fact that performers love them.
Minnie Pearl -
Peak performers develop powerful mental images of the behavior that will lead to the desired results. They see in their mind's eye the result they want, and the actions leading to it.
Charles Garfield
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The one element that stands out most clearly among our peak performers is their virtually unassailable belief in the likelihood of their own success.
Charles Garfield -
The artist must forget the audience, forget the critics, forget the technique, forget everything but love for the music. Then, the music speaks through the performance, and the performer and the listener will walk together with the soul of the composer, and with God.
Mstislav Rostropovich -
I wasn't really writing anything that I felt was worth it at the end, but then certain things sparked me as a solo writer - to be able to try new things and experiment, and ultimately challenge myself as a performer and as a songwriter and just to commit to ideas, and not be afraid to be myself.
William Beckett -
I was never really a writer, I was always more of a performer.
Mick Ronson -
The fact is, the difference between peak performers and everybody else are much smaller than everybody else thinks.
Charles Garfield -
'Center Stage' reached people that, as live performers, we would have never had the opportunity to reach.
Sascha Radetsky
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There are so many people in film and television that get between a performer and the audience, and that's frustrating.
Tom Conti -
You put yourself on the line as a performer, and when people reject you, it's a personal rejection.
Morgan Brittany -
I'm not a natural performer. I don't like performing very much.
David Bowie -
Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling thier missions.
Charles Garfield -
I find that so often this work can so easily overcome you and knock you out of balance and become all you think about and all you care about and all you feel is important in your life, and it's kind of the opposite. Relationships first and people first and then you can be a great performer.
Erin Davie -
There's a lot that goes into training, singers to eventually become performers. There's, projection, uh, which in many cases the artist was never concerned about.
Cholly Atkins
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Throughout my whole life, as a performer, I've never played with a band. I've always played alone, so I was never required to stay in rhythm or anything. So it was a real different experience for me to start playing with a band. There were so many basic things for me to learn.
Steve Martin -
Magic is a powerful art that can support a weak performer.
Ricky Jay -
Almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it; they feel it; they experience it before hey actually do it. They begin with the end in mind.
Stephen Covey -
I learned a lot from Elvis. He never took his image seriously. So many performers today put their image before themselves. It can ruin them. Like Elvis, I never took my image seriously.
Engelbert Humperdinck -
One piece of advice that I would give to any young athlete or performer is remember to thank your mom.
Meryl Davis -
I wasn't really a performer by temperament.
Tom Lehrer
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My goal is to work. That's the goal of most actors or performers: to work and keep working, and do the best you can, and keep growing and changing, trying to improve your craft.
Michael Ian Black -
As a kid I was always a bit of a clown, a performer.
Simon Baker -
You can't just try to be a performer. It's in your DNA. I really believe that it's either what you are or it's not at all.
Sandra Bernhard -
When I first went on the stage I was 17 and under the legal age for performers.
Ethel Waters