Quotes About Performance

Kellerman revealed herself slowly. She first threw the diablo (a form of juggling)

Always look at what people do, not who they are.

We are all trained to be female impersonators.

When teachers of randomly selected students are told their students are slow, they become slower; when teachers believe their students are gifted, they become more gifted.

In a certain sense,I never left Actionism as I understood it to this very day. Today,I work in sittings that are very similar to the course of the actions. Only the stage has changed on which the presentation takes place.

My body is the intention. My body is the event. My body is the result.

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

To be successful, a woman has to be better at her job than a man.

TV — a clever contraction derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville.

You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave - win or lose.

When I say do your best, I mean your very best. You are capable of so much more.

I have been quoted as saying, 'Do the best you can.' But I want to emphasize that it be the very best. We are too prone to be satisfied with mediocre performance. We are capable of doing so much better.

When my opera Plump Jack was performed in 1989, my first piano teacher sent me something that I'd composed when I was four. I remember I played it, and it still sounded like me. I'm the same composer I was then.

To sum up, singing or praying the psalms is a performative, typically a commissive, act: saying these solemn words to God alters one's relationship in a way that mere listening does not. This

We are not what we think, or what we say, or how we feel. We are what we do.

To be functionally inappropriate is to be dysfunctional.

Life was theater, and impressions one made on spectators were what counted. Public leaders had to become actors or characters, masters of masquerade.

All of us watch the man with the ball. Accordingly football has come to be thought of in terms of individuals. The artisans engaged in a manœuvre are forgotten because of the glory of the hero who actually completes the play.

Acting: An art which consists of keeping the audience from coughing.

Pentiums melt in your PC, not in your hand.

I care not a job about the technology of the art of dancing... All that concerns me is how beautifully or how expressively a dancer can dance...

I am a dancer. I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living... In each it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which comes shape of achievement, a sense of one's being, a satisfaction of spirit. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.

People know you for what you've done, not for what you plan to do.

So the little thing grew bigger. He was healthy and normal, ate regularly, slept long hours, and yet the growing little thing was becoming an obsession. WORK PERFORMED. The phrase haunted his brain.