Quotes About Performance

This transparent system of accounting means that we know which geiko did the most business on any given day. It is always clear who is Number One.

En Gion Kobu no nos referimos a nosotras mismas como geishas (que significa artistas), sino que usamos un término más específico: geiko o mujer del arte. Una clase de geiko, famosa en el mundo entero como símbolo de Kioto, es la joven bailarina conocida como maiko o mujer de la danza.

On the outside, there is all the coquettish pantomime; inside there is the desperate, longing woman.

I find it curious that she hasn't been excommunicated. Are her small acts of rebellion a convenient outlet for Peters, a type of performance that satisfies the colonists' need to assert themselves, and that allows Peters to act with impunity on a larger scale?

Sunday worship services are too frequently no more than a communal version of such energy-boosting, performance-enhancing, or get-well morning exercises.

You cannot ask things to do what they are not meant to do. Eventually, they will break.

Then he commandeered the floor, shooting back and forth like some hot Latin lover. When he finished, everyone applauded. He could have stayed in that moment forever.

wearing a scarf and gloves, her blond hair tucked under a hat. "Are you done with that actress?

Barely pausing between songs, he played American compositions like "St. Louis Blues" and "Tiger Rag." He played "Parfum" from the gypsy legend Django Reinhardt. He

He was switching between classical riffs and the jazz tune, "Body and Soul.

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Saying is one thing and doing is another

We cannot be bound beyond what we are able to perform, by reason that effect and performance are not at all in our power, and that, indeed, we are masters of nothing but the will, in which, by necessity, all the rules and whole duty of mankind are founded and established.

A good rule always describes the ideal performance.

Now there is no other way of forming a habit of operation than by operating.

one learns to do by doing.

There is something maddening about mediocrity that calls forth the worst in those who are forced to deal with it.

The general conception that all actors are born exhibitionists is far from the truth. They are quite the opposite. They are shy, frightened people in hiding from themselves- people who have found a way of concealing their secret by footlights, make up and the parts they play. Their own self rejection is what has made most of them actors.

I wonder if we're giving our children the chance to really perform, if we're giving them and ourselves enough credit, as we pore over our parenting magazines and reference manuals. I wonder if we're getting in the way rather than out of the way, as we get sucked into the trap of competing with other parents to raise the most exceptional child.

The art of fiction, like the art of stage magicians, is one of directing the audience's attention to what you want them to see.

created a performance-based image that was impossible to shame—because his brand was being shameless.

she was one of them again, one of the actors moving in the stage, as graceful as any of them.

It is not surprising that in the female narrative [of schizophrenics] the hectoring spirit…who jeers, judges, commands and controls…is almost invariably male. He delivers the running critique of appearance and performance that the woman has grown up with as part of her stream of consciousness.

The world does not pay men for that which they "know." It pays them for what they DO, or induce others to do.