Quotes About Performance

Voters tend to forget that presidents are, first and foremost, people. If they are unbalanced, nasty, and hypocritical, that will be reflected in their judgment and job performance. If

Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.

Be enthusiastic. Remember the placebo effect — 30% of medicine is showbiz.

Since I am never alone with myself. Since I am always watching the character playing my part in the scene, there is no possibility of spontaneity.

There was a strange happening during a performance of Elgar's 'Sea Pictures' at a concert hall in Bermuda tonight, when the man playing the triangle disappeared.

In a packed program tonight, we will be talking to an out-of-work contortionist who says he can no longer make ends meet.

If I'm playing in the morning, I'll get some carbs early: porridge with chopped banana. If I'm playing in the afternoon, I'll start with less carbs and have some eggs and fruit for breakfast, then a light lunch about 90 minutes before I play, so I don't feel sluggish or full.

It is never easy to win but it is a lot easier to win when you play well. The key is winning golf tournaments when you are not playing so well. Managing your game is something that I feel that I am still learning to do.

I've been looking at companies that are on a positive path vs. a negative path and I've come to use the language of sports, winning streaks and losing streaks.

Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly.

The play takes place on a ramp, hanging from a ramp, below a ramp, and to the sides of a ramp.

If we include mistakes in our definition of performance, we are likely to glide through them and appreciate the beauty of the longer run.

Most would recognize at core that the main purpose of grades is to compare one student against another.

It is not in the context of measuring people's performance against standards that we propose giving the A, despite the reference to measurement the A implies. We give the A to finesse the stranglehold of judgment that grades have over our consciousness from our earliest days.

She had the kind of radical confidence about her own highly personal expression that people acquire when they understand that performance is not about getting your act together, but about opening up to the energy of the audience and of the music, and letting it sing in your unique voice.

Waltzing is not the same thing as dancing, since the rhumba is also a dance but it is not a waltz. It therefore follows that one can waltz without dancing the waltz.

If someone tells me he has bought the outfit of a tightrope walker I am not impressed until I see what is done with it.

What is the stage? It's a place, baby, you know, where people play at being serious, a place where they act comedies. We've got to act a comedy now, dead serious.

In his madness he became a terrifying actor!

The manager: Do you understand? Leading Man: I'm hanged if I do. The Manager: Neither do I. But let's get on with it. It's sure to be a glorious failure anyway.

We act that rôle for which we have been cast, that rôle which we are given in life. And in my own case, passion itself, as usually happens, becomes a trifle theatrical when it is exalted.

No sir, no. We act that role for which we have been cast, that role which we are given in life. And in my own case, passion itself, as usually happens, becomes a trifle theatrical when it is exalted.

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