Quotes About Performance

Isn't this the Eolian? I had heard that this is where pride pays silver and plays golden.

the finest song ever written for fifteen fingers.

If you want to know of love, look to a trouper's hands as he makes his music. A trouper knows. I

But how quickly you can finger notes is the smallest part of music. The real key is timing.

This is why there are so few true musicians. A lot of folks can sing or saw out a tune on a fiddle. A music box can play a song flawlessly, again and again. But knowing the notes isn't enough. You have to know how to play them. Speed comes with time and practice, but timing you are born with. You have it or you don't.

Dispassionate calm can be a useful frame of mind, but it does not make for a compelling performance.

He had to hold his body very still, very still, like some vessel about to slosh over from too much motion. Gradually he managed to get control of his breathing. His excited heart beat more steadily; the pounding of the waves inside him subsided slowly. And suddenly solitude fell across his heart like a dusky reflection. He closed his eyes. The dark doors within him opened, and he entered. The next performance in the theatre of his soul was beginning.

I'm putting the band back together," I said with a smile.

I love making movies, but there's nothing like being in front of an audience.

Bonnie Schwartz (1993), for example, concludes that instruction and feedback change only superficial aspects of language performance and do not affect the underlying systematic knowledge of the new language. She argues that language acquisition is based on the availability of natural language in the learner's environment. Interaction with speakers of that language is sufficient to trigger the acquisition of the underlying structure of the language.

I never wanted to go on stage alone because if you mess up, who can you blame?

So if diva means giving your best, then yes, I guess I am a diva.

I drew no line between life and art. I was the same on- as offstage.

If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.

what really drops glucose is exercise—but, contrary to the predictions of the glucose hypothesis, exercise tends to make you better at subsequent tasks requiring mental effort, not worse.

great web design without functionality is like a sports car with no engine.

there is no such thing as two absolutely simultaneously-occurring events in MIDI—any two events must be at least 0.6 milliseconds apart

On your very worst, most rebellious, and most faithless day, you can run into the holy presence of your heavenly Father and he will not turn you away. Your acceptance has not been, nor will it ever be, based on your performance.

We are God's forever and ever. He will never turn his back on us. He will never angrily throw our sin in our faces. He will never withdraw his presence and his promises, no matter how messed up we continue to be, because our standing with him is not based on our performance, but on the perfect record of his Son. But

The thought that any fallen human being would be able to perform his or her way into acceptance with God has to be the most insane of all delusions.

There is no faith that he will give them all they need to respond to each other in godly ways. As a result, their relationship is reduced to human demands, human performance, human failure, human judgment, and human punishment

We found that the self-affirmation writing task improved maths performance for free-school-meal students only, closing the existing achievement gap between these two groups by 50 per cent over the course of the year.

Sweeping and dramatic changes make for good theater, but in real life, they're not effective.

In his dark suit, white shirt, and rep tie, he looked—and sounded—utterly professional. There was little chance he would make a mistake on direct or get tripped up on cross by a pettifogger, such as my own wily self.