Quotes About Performance

When you go on a stage - or even in a café or a room - and you play it's all happening right then and there: the exchange, the art, the communication. Performance is in the moment.

Speak from the balls, not from the diaphram.

The guitar is a much more efficient machine than a computer. More responsive.

A computer can tell you down to the dime what you've sold, but it can never tell you how much you could have sold.

Actors will never be replaced. The thought that somehow a computer version of a character is going to be something people prefer to look at is a ludicrous idea.

RAM: This gives guys a way of deciding whose computer has the biggest, studliest memory. That's important, because the more memory a computer has, the faster it can produce error messages.

Whether I'm in front of the camera, behind the camera, at my computer writing a novel or a screenplay, as long as I get to entertain someone out there, I'm happy.

Not since Jimmy Carr have I seen a cold computer programme on stage generate so much laughter.

Windows 10 on both an old 2011 upgraded computer and a new 2016 computer was an excruciating experience

For most entertainers, there is a single experience, one defining moment, when confidence replaces the self-doubt that most of us wrestle with.

The good NCO has never been short in confidence, either to perform the mission or to inform the superior that he or she was interfering with traditional NCO business.

I think naturally, if you're an actor, there's a high level of assertiveness that you need to have to survive this business. There's boldness in being assertive, and there's strength and confidence.

Eighty percent of American managers cannot answer with any measure of confidence these seemingly simple questions: What is my job? What in it really counts? How well am I doing?

In his prime, the young comic walked onto a stage with the confidence of a man who owned it, and by the time he walked off, he did.

Confidence is everything in this business.

When I joined the Tour I studied the best players to see what they did that I didn't do. I came to the conclusion that the successful players had the Three Cs: Confidence, Composure, Concentration.

If you serve well, your volleys are going to be so much easier. It has got to do with confidence, obviously.

Whatever you do without confidence will be done badly.

Confidence in golf means being able to concentrate on the problem at hand with no outside interference.

When I tested for Billy Budd, I had that kind of confidence that comes with the certainty that you're not going to get something. I was very rough around the edges.

You can't dream up confidence. Confidence is born of demonstrated ability.

Comics, a lot of them, are really depressed people, and I happen to be somebody that does have a lot of confidence. That's the odd thing about my stand-up. I am very confident. I always was.

You learn so much from competition you gain confidence every time you have to step up and perform

Shooting is all about confidence.