Performances Quotes

• When you make a bad pitch and the hitter puts it out of the park and you cost your team the game, it's a real test of your maturity to be able to stand in front of your locker fifteen minutes later and admit it to the world. How many people in other professions would be willing to have their job performances evaluated that way, in front of millions, every afternoon at five o'clock.

  

  Bob Feller
  • People
  • World
  • Real

• Just as music comes alive in the performance of it, the same is true of mathematics. The symbols on the page have no more to do with mathematics than the notes on a page of music. They simply represent the experience.

  

  Keith Devlin
  • Alive
  • Math
  • Mathematics

• The performances of others are often selected as standards for self-improvement of abilities.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • Improvement
  • Standards
  • Abilities

• Comparative appraisals of efficacy require not only evaluation of one;s own performances but also knowledge of how others do, cognizance of nonability determinants of their performances, and some understanding that it is others, like oneself, who provide the most informative social criterion for comparison.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • Knowledge
  • Understanding
  • Evaluation

• I grew up listening to Bernadette Peters, Patti LuPone, and Angela Lansbury, so I grew up wanting to sound like Patti and Bernadette. What I realized, though, is that I can't sound like that, and what makes their performances magical is their uniqueness.

  

  Susan Egan
  • Performances
  • Grew Up
  • Uniqueness

• Just because you're wearing a goofy hat doesn't make it performance art.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • Art
  • Hats
  • Goofy

• I think the performances that really communicate with me are the ones where I don't feel like I'm watching someone and thinking: "They're doing some really good acting." It's when I'm literally completely consumed by the story-telling and the actor or actress is evoking something in me. I think that's so powerful and cinema and TV has so much power.

  

  Aisling Loftus
  • Acting
  • Performances
  • Storytelling

• Everything I do is geared towards improving my next performance.

  

  Carolina Kluft
  • Next
  • Performances
  • Improving

• I'm extremely critical. I don't consider myself a performance artist. I balk at the term performance art.

  

  Kalan Sherrard
  • Art
  • Term
  • Performances

• Giving a good performance, giving it all is what it's all about. I love to perform.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Giving
  • Performances

• [I influenced by ]the work of early [Michelangelo] Antonioni, Orson Welles and [Carlo] Pasolini, I love [Nicolas Jack] Roeg's film "Performance".

  

  Nan Goldin
  • Work
  • Film
  • Performances

• Perceived self-efficacy influences the types of causal attributions people make for their performances.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • People
  • Influences
  • Causal

• My studio works in cycles. I am consistent with all of the practices, but I give attention to one part for a certain amount of time. I say, "Okay, I'm making performances," and sometimes that means I can't be making photographic works. As I'm maturing as an artist, years have passed and I feel that I'm becoming a better craftsperson in multiple fields, but that takes time. Also, because I trained as an actor, I hold this thing about how an actor prepares and therefore I try to prepare for all of my tasks.

  

  Xaviera Simmons
  • Studio
  • Performances
  • Photographic Works

• Everything depends upon execution; having just a vision is no solution.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Action
  • Vision
  • inspirational

• Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think you need to do that.

  

  Asia Argento
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Child

• Practice is the price of mastery. Whatever you practice over and over again becomes a new habit of thought and performance.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Practice
  • Habit
  • Mastery

• We figured you could download live shows for days, so we decided to go for a cream-of-the-crop approach, but not just take the best vocal or the best performances.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Live
  • Shows
  • Download

• All of my works are performance pieces, as is true for many writers of color, writers who have indigenous roots - because our basis is spoken word.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Color
  • Bases
  • Indigenous

• I don't want to be an exception, because I was very outspoken about Performance Enhancing Drugs. It would be bad for my reputation if I would have an exemption for doping test - I don't want to have a free pass, I want to be like everybody else.

  

  Georges St-Pierre
  • Drug
  • Reputation
  • Exception

• The audience, the place youre in, has everything to do with how your performance goes.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Audience
  • Performances

• We have tons of live performances that we're putting on there. We have music videos. There's a music video for the song called I Am Jesus what is one of the funniest music videos, like we just could not find a place for it in the movie, but it's like crazy funny. And we have the whole video.

  

  Nicholas Stoller
  • Song
  • Crazy
  • Jesus

• My father-in-law saw me at a dance performance. The next day, I got a phone call, and the caller said, 'I'm Dhirubhai Ambani... may I talk to Nita?' I said, 'It's a wrong number' and put down the phone. Then he called again... and I said, 'If you're Dhirubhai Ambani, then I'm Elizabeth Taylor.'

  

  Nita Ambani
  • May
  • Law
  • Numbers

• During my performances, I don't like folks to take pictures because I feel that we live in a very photographic time. Photography was invented over 100 years ago, and now it's at its peak because everyone has a camera. The fact that they are taking experiences and filtering them through a mechanical lens I find amazing, but also disheartening. Amazing when you have photographs that start revolutions. Disheartening when you have people making photographs but not living.

  

  Xaviera Simmons
  • Experiences
  • Performances
  • Photographs

• Coming on the back of six poor performances -- on that front, I really enjoyed it. I didn't think it was my prettiest innings. But coming out and scoring a double-century against the best team in the world on the opening day of the test match, it's a special feeling.

  

  Brian Lara
  • World
  • Team
  • Performances

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