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Quotes About Performance

High performing organizations have cultures of creativity and risk. They encourage workers to innovate and play.
~ Andy Hargreaves
I've done some TV and I've done a lot of theater, obviously, and the last character I played on Broadway was a very fast-talking broad. I'm used to learning material and words.
~ Sutton Foster
I learned a lot about acting - watching not just myself but other actors and learning how to distinguish between two great takes. It's also about one's own taste in performance.
~ Ralph Fiennes
I'm terrified of learning lines, and I've always been terrified that I won't learn them.
~ Helen Mirren
We learn to do by doing.
~ Spencer W. Kimball
One thing changes every evening: It's the audience, and I'm working my magic. I'm always learning from it.
~ Eli Wallach
As a child, I loved being onstage. I loved singing, I loved the lights, I loved the adrenaline. I even loved learning lines. I was completely obsessive.
~ Emma Watson
Code should run as fast as necessary, but no faster; something important is always traded away to increase speed.
~ Richard E. Pattis
Learning is really about translating knowing what to do into doing what we know.
~ John G. Miller
The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event.
~ Edward Gibbon
I am learning to be more vulnerable and open on stage. This comes with the development of my acting abilities.
~ Ben Heppner
Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument and learning to do your craft, that's the most important thing for people to do.
~ Dave Grohl
You've got to win in sports - that's talent - but you've also got to learn how to remind everybody how you did win, and how often. That comes with experience.
~ Billie Jean King
I don't have the genetic make-up of a frontman, but I'm learning how to do it.
~ Noel Gallagher
I got to focus on my performance - learning how to perform is something I've been working on both personally and professionally.
~ Anita Sarkeesian
Lines are very difficult to learn.
~ Benedict Cumberbatch
I'm instinctive. I'm still learning how to run the ball. What I've done may look good to everyone else, but I know I'm capable of more than I've shown.
~ Clinton Portis
We will not achieve high performance in education if we replace teachers with machines or turn teachers into machines.
~ Andy Hargreaves
I'm learning as much martial arts as I possibly can. My show is packed with action. Enough to get a rise.
~ Traci Bingham
I had done the child acting thing, which is pretty much learning your lines, standing there looking natural, and having fun.
~ Vinessa Shaw
Learning about acting for camera is really quite exciting to engage with and deal with.
~ George Blagden
One learns by doing, not by learning to do.
~ Marty Rubin
There are certain things I learned when I first started learning about acting, to try and place the character physically and emotionally. And the way you place them emotionally is often with humor.
~ David Duchovny
Life isn't about plans it's about results.
~ Unknown