Quotes About Performance

I certainly had no intention of playing a man.

Forget anything after, the 1986 Turbo cars really were rockets, and to handle them I really think you had to be a man

In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor.

Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.

Get your popcorn ready.

Men are not raised to be intimate, they're raised to be competitive performers...

Traditional socialization teaches young boys to filter their sense of self-worth through performance.

What's the worst thing that can happen to a quarterback? He loses his confidence.

Bottom line is, if you turn the ball over to a team that isn't as good, you then have brought them up to your level.

Greeks heard the poems read on stage while a group of dancers performed. Then a clever poet called Aeschylus came along and had a great idea. He put a second reader on stage. Now you had a 'play' –the first drama in the world.

If I'm anything, I'm not a singer, I'm a song stylist.

Practice them in 25-yard repeats, resting ten to fifteen seconds between.

faster not because of how powerfully they stroke but because of how slippery they make their bodies.

All efficient swimmers—which means nearly all the fast ones—seem to have a more instinctive sense of how to keep their bodies in the best position for slipping easily through the water, gliding as far as possible with the least possible effort.

70 percent of your ability to improve your stroke length coming from eliminating more of the water's drag on your body.

kinesiologists estimate at least 70 percent of your swimming performance is determined by how well you streamline your body and only 30 percent by how fit or powerful you are.

three cardinal rules for going faster: 1. Balance your body in the water. 2. Make your body longer. 3. Swim on your side.

Anyone in politics would like to have great economic numbers.

I know you know the tale of Baby June You know the way she could deliver a tune She was a killer in a petticoat A little bit of everyone you adore... And if your baby let you down at night, Well Baby June would make it up alright And I was never happier Than in the arms and charms of her

practices are displayed only in performances: a practice is the trace, the residue, of its performances. Practices are not "stable compositions of easily recognized characteristics." They are nothing more than "footprints left behind by agents responding to their emergent situations, footprints which are only somewhat less evanescent than the transactions in which they emerged" (OHC ioo).

The price of being the best is having to be the best.

Now they were audience, waiting for the actors on the other side of the glass to begin their drama.

Hello, sucker!

The very essence of ballet is poetic, deriving from dreams rather than from reality. About the only reason for its existence is to enable us to remain in the world of fantasy and escape from the people we rub shoulders with in the street. Ballets are the dreams of poets taken seriously.