Quotes About Performance

Rock stars did not invent burning out. They just do it louder.

Prince, "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" (2004)

But the best cover has to be D'Angelo, on his long-awaited 2012 comeback tour—within minutes of the first gig in Paris, the whole world was YouTubing his "Space Oddity" with our jaws hanging open. After all those years away, lost in his own personal tin can, D'Angelo came back to strum his acoustic guitar and work the hell out of "tell my wife I love her very much" line.

But I loved the cassock and surplice, ringing the bells, lighting the candles—it was like being a glam-rock roadie for God.

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We spend time as investors thinking about the ability to accelerate or sustain elevated growth, as well as working with management teams to try and minimize the execution risk associated with that growth.

that she looked upon a future career as a stage shot, and she went to her first performance with the assurance of one who had been doing it always.

rinks, and variety theaters, often appearing as a "specialty" with their acting dogs, Jack and George. As part of their act, George, a standard-bred poodle, sat on a pedestal with an apple on his head, which he allowed

Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do

A poet that reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.

I insist that they do what they became actors to do. I want them to create something and not just hit marks and say words. So they all love that because they're playing. It's called playacting. Their contributions are not only welcomed, but are accepted and used.

The role of the director is to create a space where the actresses and actors can become more than they have ever been before, more than they have ever dreamed of being.

2018, the stock market posted its worst annual performance since the financial crisis. The median shareholder return for the largest five hundred corporations was a negative 5.8 percent. But their top executives got raises of 5 percent or more, with the typical CEO pay reaching a record $12.4 million, according to an analysis by The Wall Street Journal.

Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.

Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.

If there is a streak of ham anywhere in an actor, Shakespeare will bring it out.

The goal of the actor is to internalize, to assimilate, and to integrate the accent so that it becomes simply the character's natural individual way of speaking. When

The trick to playing second fiddle is to play it like second Stradivarius.

Man is the only trained animal who expects his reward before he does his trick.

A l'assurance des acteurs oppose le charme des modèles qui ne savent pas ce qu'ils sont.

Typography is to literature as musical performance is to composition: an essential act of interpretation, full of endless opportunities for insight or obtuseness.

While you sat and played toccatas, stately at the clavichord.

A nightingale dies for shame if another bird sings better.

I like my code to be elegant and efficient. The logic should be straightforward to make it hard for bugs to hide, the dependencies minimal to ease maintenance, error handling complete according to an articulated strategy, and performance close to optimal so as not to tempt people to make the code messy with unprincipled optimizations. Clean code does one thing well. -Bjarne Stroustrup, inventor of C++ and author of The C++ Programming Language