Performance Quotes

Performance Quote of the day

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.

It would have to be connected with performance art somehow, either in the front of the house or the back. I was myopic about this from fourth grade on

Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.

If you have stage fright, it never goes away. But then I wonder: is the key to that magical performance because of the fear?

I'm on performance enhancing drugs, so I may cause drowsiness.

There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment - and you start to decline.

Peak performance begins with your taking complete responsibility for your life and everything that happens to you.

Nobody has ever said anything about Marion Jones every using performance-enhancing drugs and they never will

Research shows that for jobs of all kinds, emotional intelligence is twice as important an ingredient of outstanding performance as cognitive ability and technical skill combined.

The best performance improvement is the transition from the nonworking state to the working state.

Success is a decision, not a gift.

So the first thing I learned about how to get superior performance is not to buy stocks that are near their lows, but to buy stocks that are coming out of broad bases and beginning to make new highs.

If you remain static and wait for success to come to you it will certainly not happen.

An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance, while also providing alternative opportunities to reward the skills of children who learn differently.

In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance... you thrive on that.

In terms of brain development, musical performance is every bit as important educationally as reading or writing.

There's one thing you can't download and that's a live performance. And I know how to put on a show, and enjoy performing, and I'll always have that.

The adrenaline of a live performance is unlike anything in film or theater. I can see why it's so addictive.

It is the element I miss in electronic music - no performance, no loving immersion. Maybe that is why I was never particularly drawn to electronic music.

Live performance has always been my thing. It’s my purpose to master and capture the moment every time I have you connected.

The system that people work in and the interaction with people may account for 90 or 95 percent of performance.

Politics with me isn't theater. It's performance art. Sometimes, for its own sake.

[On Katharine Hepburn's stage performance:] She ran the whole gamut of emotions, from A to B.

Every time a champion makes a decision they have a chance to learn something new, regardless of the outcome.

The people and successes in your life mirror your beliefs.

The thing I love about live performance the most, is that the doors are closed, the lights are turned down, and the audience has to be reverential to what's happening onstage.

But now in this day and age, people are more prone to go out to try new things to enhance their performance on the field - to enhance their physical appearance.

Teaching is a performance art.

I am against performance-enhancing drugs. I have never taken them and I never will take them.

Over the long run, superior performance depends on superior learning.

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

Noah, from 'The Young Lions' (1958), was the best performance of my life. I couldn't have given more of myself. I'll never be able to do it again. Never.

When you take an energetic song and add it to one of the most energetic live performance set's you get pure mayhem...which is what the fans want to see!

MAMMOOTTY has presented an outstanding performance in film'New Delhi'

Don't mistake activity with achievement.

There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

If you have positive energy you will always attract positive outcomes.

I love surprising people with a present or a gift or a stage performance or anything.

If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn't be here. I guarantee you that.

It is never about who is right or wrong, it is about what is best.

Find your authentic voice, become vulnerable, and then put yourself out there.

My first ever stage performance was in Edinburgh in 1960.

Operational effectiveness and strategy are both essential to superior performance.

The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and by your everyday attitude that you are wholeheartedly supporting them.

Rested, Refreshed, and Ready to run, the three Rs of peak performance.

As an actor for hire, my job is to do some pre-production work for myself. Then my job is to show up and give the best performance I can.

First of all, to do performance art, you really have to give 100 percent. I only know that I have to give 100 percent and then what happens, happens.

The thrust of continuous action is the firewood which fuels motivation.

The sprint is like life ... blink and you miss it.