Quotes About Performance

Lots of times I'll play lead and rhythm together.

This band - because this is myself on electric and acoustic guitars - we've done three tours together now and I really, really like it which is why I did the DVD as well.

The long version of the play is actually an easier version to follow. In all of the cut versions the intense speeches are cut too close together for the audience and the actors.

The true exceptional performer is on super pilot. Every single sense, every fiber of his body is brought together in what he is doing.

The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process.

She did not feel in any mood to playact for a whole evening, but she supposed that she would somehow live through the ordeal.

Rarely is it possible to study all of the instructions to a game before beginning to play, or to memorize the manual before turning on the computer. The excitement of improvisation lies not only in the risk of being involved but in the new ideas, as heady as the adrenaline of performance, that seems to come from nowhere.

For athletes, the Olympics are the ultimate test of their worth.

I am a performing artist; I perfomr admiration. 'Come with me', I want my poems to say. 'And do the same

I am a performing artist; I perform admiration. 'Come with me', I want my poems to say. 'And do the same

For every twenty-four hours awake, Belenky told me, people lose 25 percent of their capacity for useful mental work.

Unlike real tissue, human tissue simulant doesn't snap back: The cavity remains, allowing ballistics types to judge, and preserve a record of, a bullet's performance. Plus, you don't need to autopsy a block of human tissue simulant; because it's clear, you just walk up to it after you've shot it and take a look at the damage. Following which, you can take it home, eat it, and enjoy stronger, healthier nails in thirty days.

I came across a NATO symposium on Human Performance Optimization that included a roundup of medical technologies that might be repurposed to optimize warfighters. In among the prosthetic limbs "to provide superhuman strength" and the infrared and ultraviolet vision–bestowing eye implants was this: corpus callosotomy to "allow unihemispheric sleep and continuous alertness.

Bad enough that some ham-handed fop in a waistcoat and bowtie was up to his wrists in your urinary tract, but on top of that you had an audience-

I asked nothing more than to be judged justly. My act didn't always play well with my audience, and the reviews (which came in the form of verdicts) often panned my performance. In the end, however, the theater company of justice decided that, cost what it may, that role would belong to me for all time, even after the production had finished its run, and no more performances were scheduled. Playing "out of character" had therefore been my way of choosing freedom.

One cannot improve as an endurance athlete except by changing one's relationship with perception of effort.

Low-intensity, high-volume training develops the sort of suffering tolerance that enhances fatigue resistance more effectively than does speed-based training. Fast runs may hurt more, but long runs hurt longer. The slow-burn type of suffering that runners experience in longer, less intense workouts is more specific to racing.

According to the brain-centered model of exercise performance, a runner achieves his race goal when his brain calculates that achieving the race goal is possible without catastrophic self-harm.

The truth of the matter is that the stronger or more capable the body is, the weaker or lazier the mind can afford to be.

Mindless performance may be especially helpful in endurance sports because of the supreme importance of the capacity to suffer. The more science and technical detail an athlete incorporates into the training process, the more distracted he becomes from the only thing that really matters: getting out the door and going hard.

The best source of knowledge concerning the most effective methods of coping with the challenges of endurance sports is the example set by elite endurance athletes. The methods that the greatest athletes rely on to overcome the toughest and most common mental barriers to better performance are practically by definition the most effective coping methods for all athletes.

a smaller quantity of labour produce a greater quantity of work'.

Betsy liked to read her stories aloud and she read them like an actress. She made her voice low and thrillingly deep. She made it shake with emotion. She laughed mockingly and sobbed wildly when the occasion required.

Peter, before you can do things for people, you must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the secondary consequences. The work, not the people." (578)