Quotes About Performance

People know you for what you've done, not for what you plan to do.

Stretch pants - the garment that made skiing a spectator sport.

One of the great disappointments of a football game is that the cheerleaders never seem to get injured.

Asanas attune the body to meditation, just as a guitar is tuned before a performance.

After all is said and done, a lot more will have been said than done.

A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats.

Pentiums melt in your PC, not in your hand.

Reading music is the skill, while interpretation is the gift.

Sped up my XT ran it on 220v Works greO

Acta est fabula [The play is over].

I don't care about sympathy. I care about playing a character who's understandable and clear.

I'm not a comedian. I'm an actor who just happens to be funny on occasion.

Assume the worst. About everybody. But don't let this poisoned outlook affect your job performance. Let it all roll off your back. Ignore it. Be amused by what you see and suspect. Just because someone you work with is a miserable, treacherous, self-serving, capricious and corrupt asshole shouldn't prevent you from enjoying their company, working with them or finding them entertaining.

When the archer shoots for no particular prize, he has all his skills; when he shoots to win a brass buckle, he is already nervous; when he shoots for a gold prize, he goes blind, sees two targets, and is out of his mind. His skill has not changed, but the prize divides him. He cares! He thinks more of winning than of shooting, and the need to win drains him of power.

Violins, horns, drums, speeches—a mouth against a microphone in some faraway yet simultaneous evening—the sorcery of it holds him rapt.

Personally, I am always very nervous when I begin to speak. Every time I make a speech I feel I am submitting to judgment, not only about my ability but my character and honor. I am afraid of seeing either to promise more than I can perform, which suggests complete irresponsibility, or to perform less than I can, which suggests bad faith and indifference' (Cicero in Everitt, 58).

fresco of an actor's mask from a room in Augustus' house on the Palatine Hill, which may have been his bedroom. The princeps enjoyed theater and, to judge by his last words, saw himself as a performer. He asked the people around his bedside: "Have I played my part in the farce of life well enough?

All his life he suffered from first-night nerves. He acknowledged: Personally, I am always very nervous when I begin to speak. Every time I make a speech I feel I am submitting to judgment, not only about my ability but my character and honor. I am afraid of seeming either to promise more than I can perform, which suggests complete irresponsibility, or to perform less than I can, which suggests bad faith and indifference.

On election season politicos dawn their timber boots and red handkerchiefs. Many claim salt of the earth roots every time they eat a watermelon, but they never bite the bitterness of the rind. Everyone likes a good show and the politics of poverty never disappoint.

You look at me as if I were a conjuror,' Holmes remarked, with a laugh.

Theatre, at its best, is a candle that never goes out and all of these productions, along with many more, still burn in my memory.

It was an Édith Piaf album, Chansons Parisiennes.

He was like an actor in one of those plays from between the wars where everyone talks for a long time but very little happens.

Forget all the twiddly bits, Mr Bond. These superchargers! All they do is suck, squeeze, bang and blow. Who