Performances Quotes
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I thought I wanted to be a performing and recording artist, and played many recitals and performances beginning in the 1970s. In the 1980s I went to the British Library and ordered and received reels of historical women and men keyboard composers, and thus was born Vivace Press.
Barbara Harbach -
We used to moralize; today we normalize, and performance anxiety is the secular version of our old religious guilt.
Esther Perel
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Certainly half a dozen of the team will be looking anxiously over their shoulder and their performances will be under close scrutiny in the coming months.
Allan Border -
I was always the kid in school who tried to get attention, not necessarily the class clown, but I'd do little unexpected performances.
Leonardo DiCaprio -
Practice is the price of mastery. Whatever you practice over and over again becomes a new habit of thought and performance.
Brian Tracy -
For me, performance is about forgetting what I'm wearing. Just putting it on and knowing it's right.
Debbie Harry Blondie -
Sam [Mendes] said he took advantage of the fact that Kate and I were so close for many years. He knew it was something he could harness in our performances, and we knew that too.
Leonardo DiCaprio -
Your self-image controls your performance; see yourself as confident and in complete control
Brian Tracy
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Never think that success is down to your own performance alone. If you start listening only to yourself you take the first step back towards the bottom. The flowers of victory belong in many vases.
Michael Schumacher -
Clearly there have been some very strong performances in the computer technology stocks. This is an area that's growing rapidly, and there's a lot of excitement in the market.
Clinton Morrison -
How much we like ourselves governs our performance.
Brian Tracy -
It's been an amazing year of individual performances.
Steve Kerr -
We got sick of interviews and performances - for a long time, it came back to doing 'Take on Me.' It became a circus number instead of music.
Morten Harket A-ha -
For example, there's no word emocionó in English, so I have to say, "You, you really emotioned me," It's more precise, even though it sounds odd. "My father emotioned me." Or "That performance really emotioned to me."
Sandra Cisneros
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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 -
The music I do in live performances is made for a specific situation. I know that people are sitting down and shutting up and they're with me for 90 minutes. They're totally with me. Whatever I do, I know they have my attention and they follow my pace.
Nils Frahm -
I think you get the most honest performances when an actor shows up to set with their lines memorized. That's a very important thing that a lot of people seem to forget.
Shailene Woodley -
'Concentrate on measuring performance and winning will take care of itself'. That is a brilliant excuse for coming second.
Clive Woodward -
I'm a performance artist first; I'm a recording artist second.
Erykah Badu -
As a group of people, New Order acted like a divorcing husband and wife: we couldn’t even be bothered to hate one another any more. We’d simply stopped caring about each other. We played our guts out most nights – I like to think we didn’t let our band politics affect the performances – but as soon as we were offstage all our heart was lost again.
Peter Hook New Order
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If every auditorium were razed to the ground, theatre would still survive, because the hunger in each of us to act and be acted to, is genetic. This intense hunger even crosses the threshold of sleep. For we direct, perform and witness performances every night - theatre cannot die before the last dream has been dreamt.
Declan Donnellan -
Don't try to be just like some other singer hitting it big - find your own style and be honest in your performances. And never underestimate your audience.
Tony Bennett -
Peak performance begins with your taking complete responsibility for your life and everything that happens to you.
Brian Tracy -
The very foundation of our science is only an inference; far the whole of it rests an the unprovable assumption that, all through the inferred lapse of time which the inferred performance of inferred geological processes involves, they have been going on in a manner consistent with the laws of nature as we know them now.
William Morris Davis