Quotes About Performance

Only action determines my value in the market place and to multiply my value I will multiply my actions.

for when an act becomes easy through constant repetition it becomes a pleasure to perform and if it is a pleasure to perform it is man's nature to perform it often. When I perform it often it becomes a habit and I become its slave and since it is a good habit this is my will. Today I begin a new life.

I don't think any responsible performer would go on stage high. If he convinced himself he is better that way, he is deluding himself.

A song should stand on its own and on what a singer does with it. It shouldn't need a lot of extra help to be good.

I like performing because it's direct contact with live people. I write a good deal of the time but that's introspective creation rather than interaction.

Wenn du Erfolg haben willst, bringe Höchstleistungen. Wenn du das Beste willst, was dir die Welt zu bieten hat, dann biete ihr das Beste von dir.

The human mind is happiest when it is most active in performing the functions which it was intended to perform. One of man's greatest passions is that of achievement, the passion for doing things, the ambition to accomplish. This is one of the greatest satisfactions of life, and satisfaction is the chief ingredient in happiness.

churches have unconsciously encouraged the development of fear by using it as a weapon to whip people into church attendance, the performance of church duties, etc.!

My aim is to explore Russian culture in the same way Tolstoy presents Natasha's dance: as a series of encounters or creative social acts which were performed and understood in many different ways.

It didn't matter he was brilliant and dedicated and good. He was a child. He was young. No he isn't, thought Ender. Small, yes. Bur Bean has been through a battle with a whole army depending on him and on the soldiers that he led. and he performed splendidly, and the won. There's no youth in that. No childhood.

No system works well unless good people do their jobs with integrity, and then almost any system works well enough.

Nobody would notice you, except to feel sorry for the little kid. But I made sure they all noticed you today. They'll be watching every move you make. All you have to do to earn their respect now is be perfect.

You're just Ender in drag, doing his Valentine bit. You come off the stage and there's nothing there, it comes off like makeup and a costume.

The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.

I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.

If one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

I don't play accurately--any one can play accurately--but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life.

Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art

The perfection is not so much in the performance as in the journey towards it. This is the joy. You must burn!

If you forget your lines, you had better mumble with conviction.

In the circle of light on the state in the midst of darkness, you have the sensation of being entirely alone... This is called solitude in public... During a performance, before an audience of thousands, you can always enclose yourself in this circle, like a snail in its shell... You can carry it wherever you go.

An old man in a tyrolean costume was shuffling among the rough tables with his hat outheld while a little girl in a smock cranked a barrel organ and a bear in a crinoline twirled strangely upon a board stage defined by a row of tallow candles that dripped and sputtered in their pools of grease.

Wie es so schoen bei Shakespeare heisst: "Jeder spielt seine Rolle, und meine ist eine traurige.