Quotes About Performance

The public considers all women on stage to be of questionable morals, if not outright whores. But the serious Shakespearean actresses console themselves that at least they aren't involved in the vulgarity of musical theater. And those of us in musical theater congratulate ourselves on not being involved in the pornographic nonsense that is the burlesque. I don't know to whom the burlesque performers compare themselves, but I'm sure they feel superior to someone.

Wait, here comes Cooper. In which case, carry on with your melodramatic moaning, but put some majesty into it. You know he lives to hear you judge everything as unworthy.

Whenever one has time to write, edit, and delete, there is room for performance.

Online, we easily find "company" but are exhausted by the pressures of performance. We enjoy continual connection but rarely have each other's full attention. We can have instant audiences but flatten out what we say to each other in new reductive genres of abbreviation. We like it that the Web "knows" us, but this is only possible because we compromise our privacy, leaving electronic bread crumbs that can be easily exploited, both politically and commercially.

Burl Ives singing children's songs.

He prefers a deliberate performance that can be made to seem spontaneous.

Meetings are performances of what meetings used to be

Daniel Radcliffe

To serve as prime minister while being too mindful of the approval rating is like serving as a prime minister on a roller coaster. What is important, I believe, is that I really act on promises that I make and leave results.

Winners do not do right things, they do things right !

In a positive environment, a marginal performer's output goes up. In a negative environment, a good performer's output goes down.

Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.

Results are more motivating than words.

Results are more motivating that words.

Unjust responses to failure are almost never the result of bad performance. They are the result of bad relationships.

People do not come to work to do a bad job. Safety in complex systems is not a result of getting rid of people, of reducing their degrees of freedom. Safety in complex systems is created by people through practice—at all levels of an organization.

Acting isn't a game of "pretend." It's an exercise in being real.

It is not enough to be a good player... you must also play well

My job is to skate as hard and fast as anyone in the WHL. My job is to pound all the opposing forwards and defensemen into the boards whenever possible. My job is to score goals on those few times I have the puck and the net is so wide that even an elephant in handcuffs couldn't miss.

Getting called into the coach's office is like getting called into the principal's office. And I never have good enough grades to hope it's because the principal has nice news.

The less you think and the more you do, the better things tend to become.

To enter a theatre for a performance is to be inducted into a magical space, to be ushered into the sacred arena of the imagination.

Acting, Dickens and his contemporaries believed, was the art of gesture, no more and no less.

The average player has the ball for only 53.4 seconds every game (according to Chris Carling, the English performance analyst at Lille in France) so any player's main job is to occupy the right positions for the other eighty-nine minutes and 6.6 seconds.