Quotes About Performance

As far as I can tell, most actors' main motivation is self-doubt and neuroses.

When you get kicked, you must know that the response is to play better. That is the way I have always thought. That is an extra motivation for me to play better.

If you are playing in the right conditions, there is always motivation to bowl fast. If you are playing in the wrong condition then you want to be a batsman.

I would say that one of the really special gifts about playing an athlete is that it's the best motivation you'll ever have to get in top shape and stay in top shape because you know that you're going to be expected to deliver.

My motivations are thinking I can write better songs, that the concerts can be better.

I got fitter when I did 'Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.' I wore a loincloth - that's a lot of motivation!

I was always curious about motivation and intention, and really, that's a lot of what acting is.

The motivation is important for me to act it, but I don't necessarily want the audience to know my motivation.

I was always curious about motivation and intention, and really, that's a lot of what acting is. I was a little bit different.

The Champions League is special. You play at a higher level, so you have to be very focused and have greater motivation.

It doesn't matter about the other team, when we have the ball and push hard, we can score goals. It is up to us to start the games with that desire, that motivation, and then we can get good results.

Just in myself the motivation side of it, maybe just being a little bit more aggressive to get something out of myself a little bit more. I definitely play better with it.

Getting up in front of an audience is my biggest motivation.

Motivation should come from within each player; if not, it's difficult to get results.

I consider myself a court jester - motivator.

I honestly think, rebounding, it takes a couple of things to be a good rebounder... It takes motor. It takes effort. It takes a lot of things. It takes game reps.

Being on stage and on a motorcycle are two of the only places I feel comfortable and free. Those are my happy places.

I think that there is such power with the live performance of it - so much of what 'Motown' is about is the live performance aspect, really. The power of our production is really the music and the performances.

One of the reasons for paying people for their productivity, rather than their merits, is that productivity is far easier to determine than merit.

Widespread personification of "society" is another verbal tactic that evades issues of individual responsibility. Such use of the term "society" is a more sophisticated version of the notion that "the devil made me do it." Like much of the rest of the special vocabulary of the anointed, it is used as a magic word to make choice, behavior, and performance vanish into thin

You hit a bad shot, you have to get over it right there and then so you can get focused on the next one

But this, too, was a performance.

Politics was manipulation. Like a magic show.

They say: Belief is important. I say: No, actions are important. Judge by deed, not by creed.