Quotes About Performance

He gave more moves than Mae West!

It was the worst kind of fear there was in sports, the kind where you didn't give yourself a chance to do something right--even something great--because you were terrified you might do something wrong.

Nerves provide me with energy. They work for me. It's when I don't have them, when I feel at ease, that I get worried.

Por tanto, los estándares siguientes, y muchos otros en una fábrica, pueden ser considerados como estados objetivo (figura 5.28). Figura 5.28. Estos estándares, y muchos más, pueden ser considerados estados target u objetivo.

It is generally not possible simply to maintain a level of process performance. A process will tend to erode no matter what, even if a standard is defined, explained to everyone, and posted. […] Any organized process naturally tends to decline to a chaotic state if we leave it alone. […] A process is either slipping back or being improved.«

and Justin Beaver's greatest hits. He's totes the best musician ever.

My favorite part of the game is the opportunity to play.

No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.

When a body moves, it's the most revealing thing. Dance for a minute, and I'll tell you who you are.

The essence of all art is having pleasure giving pleasure.

Dancing is my obsession. My life.

To play for a draw, at any rate with white, is to some degree a crime against chess.

The magic of drama is infinitely more powerful than the magic of trickery. It is as available to the conjurer as it is to the actor. The only difference is that actors take it for granted, whereas few conjurers are even aware that it exists.

See, music is about style.

Bad music is what will ruin music, not the instruments musicians choose to play.

Naw, I wasn't going to sell my principles for them. I wanted to be accepted as a good musician and that didn't call for no grinning, but just being able to play the horn good. And that's what I did then and now. Critics can take that or leave it.

You can tell whether a person plays or not by the way he carries the instrument, whether it means something to him or not. Then the way they talk and act. If they act too hip, you know they can't play shit.

Those minutes that I'm on stage are the best! Being there and looking at the crowd and seeing their faces, hearing them sing the positive words from the songs.

I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how to make it interesting.

When I pick songs for karaoke, I have three concerns: (1) What will this song say about me? (2) How will I sound singing it? and (3) How will it make people feel?

We did not stage kiss because we didn't know any better. It was just lights, camera, tongue-dance.

And that's all show business is, really. Transitioning panics.

And it kind of behooves you to pick a short song. I don't care if Don freakin' McLean shows up in a red-white-and-blue tuxedo, no one is allowed to sing "American Pie." It's actually kind of hostile to a group of partiers to pick a song longer than three minutes.

Watching a performance of warriors, I was told, "This fighter's tradition is six hundred years old." And I saw a performance so mired in ritual— As if nothing valid had happened in six hundred years. We must honor the classical without being irrelevant.