Quotes About Performance

Conditions might not be calm or reasonable. It may feel as though the whole world is stacked against us. This is when we have to perform better than we ever conceived of performing. I believe the key is to have prepared in a manner that allows for inspiration, to have laid the foundation for us to create under the wildest pressures we ever imagined. It

the three steps I described as being critical to resilient, self-sufficient performance. First, we learn to flow with distraction, like that blade of grass bending to the wind. Then we learn to use distraction, inspiring ourselves with what initially would have thrown us off our games. Finally we learn to re-create the inspiring settings internally.

In performance training, first we learn to flow with whatever comes. Then we learn to use whatever comes to our advantage. Finally, we learn to be completely self-sufficient and create our own earthquakes, so our mental process feeds itself explosive inspirations without the need for outside stimulus.

the fields of learning and performance are an exploration of greyness—

In your performance training, the first step to mastering the zone is to practice the ebb and flow of stress and recovery. This should involve interval training

Interval work is a critical building block to becoming a consistent long-term performer. If you spend a few months practicing stress and recovery in your everyday life, you'll lay the physiological foundation for becoming a resilient, dependable pressure player. The next step is to create your trigger for the zone.

Mental resilience is arguably the most critical trait of a world-class performer, and it should be nurtured continuously.

In performance training, first we learn to flow with whatever comes. Then we learn to use whatever comes to our advantage. Finally, we learn to be completely self-sufficient and create our own earthquakes, so our mental process feeds itself explosive inspirations without the need for outside stimulus. The

It is widely accepted that anything that reduces short-term volatility must also reduce long-term return.

If you put A players on a team with C players, your A players are going to play down. It rarely works the other way, where the C players play up.

Sometimes Queens' music is dark, but somehow it's ok to deliver it with a smile on your face because thing's are still going to kick in.

United States ambassador, Joseph Kennedy, who had just told Lord Halifax, the Foreign Secretary, that he was disgusted with Britain's performance. Britain would, Kennedy was quite sure, lose the war.

I have a Volvo S60R and it's a pretty fast car, the R says it all.

Lo llamamos síndrome del recomendado, y afecta enormemente a las probabilidades de cagarla.

Hamlet o Macbeth se leen maravillosamente hoy; muy al contrario, me parece, de lo que ocurre con tantos otros que dependen de la escena

pero aun así pude asistir al mejor espectáculo del mundo: una persona haciendo bien su oficio.

the Democratic Party, and decades of Democratic control of Congress, the schools have continued to fail minority children? Big-city schools have become increasingly segregated by race and class in the last thirty years. Their academic performance has declined. In addition, the black middle class has joined whites in moving out to the suburbs to get their children away from those schools.

Working with an audience is like being an animal trainer. If you go in the ring and you're a little bit nervous and your hand's shaking, the animals sense it and they rip you apart. Same thing with audiences.

I love the rehearsal process in the theatre, and the visceral sense of contact and communication with a live audience.

Now to go on, now to be Ghost. It banishes the other ghosts from his side, for a time: being someone else. Leaving the world, he steps on stage. Now, the real turn into ghosts. Like a snail in reverse, he can only live away from the shell of himself.

They'd been played. By a tuba !

The theater is the thing I love doing most.

She should forget about his performance in school and concentrate on his performance as an escort, a host, a man.

The misapprehension about gender performativity is this: that gender is a choice, or that gender is a role, or that gender is a construction that one puts on, as one puts on clothes in the morning, that there is a 'one' who is prior to this gender, a one who goes to the wardrobe of gender and decides with deliberation which gender it will be today.