Performance Quotes

Just because you're wearing a goofy hat doesn't make it performance art.

Teaching is performance art.

I realized [using my own voice] is what creates the performance in the performance art and that's what helps creates the distance for the viewers, like the distance that I get when I step back.

I'm extremely critical. I don't consider myself a performance artist. I balk at the term performance art.

I feel like at the Olympics I gave the best performance of my life and I wasn't rewarded for that as an athlete. Yes, my fans and my mom were happy about it, but I didn't win that gold medal.

I owe one thing to my public - the best performance I can give.

So what this is is us, our personalities refined down on to a stage performance. In other words, the way we play is the end product of the way we live - we live in the cities, you see.

We gave up on the idea of trying to make the record a good representation of the live performance.

In most cases, my favorite Jethro Tull songs will be determined by how I feel about them as live performance songs, not by the recorded identity.

I love musical theatre because I love doing a live performance eight times a week.

I really love watching the 70s live performance TV series "The Midnight Special" and "The Old Grey Whistle Test". Those are the best performances you've ever seen, and they sound incredible.

From the business point of view—not to overstate it—intellectual property is dead; long live intellectual process. Long live service; long live performance.

I'd been used to this idea of destructive performance art instead of a slick, good-sounding show. So, I became frustrated as I felt I'd been doing the shows wrong. That sucked.

God gets the easiest performance reviews.

Writing is a performance art for me. They're very closely aligned, writing and performing. But I'm a writer, not a performer.

The best performances, are those that can be performed once.

I actually acted onstage before I'd ever seen a live performance, and I loved it.

I don't particularly love live performance of my music. I love writing and recording, but you can't make money off of that.

I learned that I was either crazy in love with you, or putting on the best performance of my life.' -Nora (PG 263)

Stage performance is obviously a much grander sort of depiction. The audience isn't right in your face as close as a camera lens gets.

You need to think outside the box. You need to think differently if you want to sustain what, for me, is my peak performance: the very best that I can achieve as an athlete every day.

If you don’t see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.

What companies want most from their managers is what they most stop their managers from giving. What managers want most from their jobs is what they most stop themselves from getting.

Success means: I want to know the work I do means something to somebody and helps make the world, if not a Better place, not a worse one.

Your company really has to work for you before you’ll really work for your company.

Providing the ultimate solution to work/life balance: not escaping from work but living the way you want to at work.

Your dreams and the dreams of your company may be different, but they are in no way incompatible.

You can stuff yourself with emotional fulfillment until it’s dribbling down your chin & your ego will quickly chomp it down and demand more.

A manager’s emotional commitment is the ultimate trigger for their discretionary effort, worth more than financial, intellectual & physical commitment combined.

Try not to take this the wrong way, but your brain is smarter than you are.

It’s impossible for a company to get what it wants most if managers have to make a choice between their own values and company priorities.

The myth of management is that your personal values are irrelevant or inappropriate at work.

Here’s what you need to know most about leadership: Lead your own life first. The only thing in this world that will dependably happen from the top down is the digging of your grave.

Why live my personal values at work? This is an excellent question to ask. If your attorneys are planning an insanity defense.

Imagine a world where what you say synchs up, not sinks down.

Human behavior is only unpredictable and dangerous if you don’t start from humanity in the first place.

When rewards come from an external source instead of an internal source, they’re unreliable, which means they’re dangerous if you grow to depend on them.

The worst thing in your own development as a leader is not to do it wrong. It’s to do it for the wrong reasons.

True leaders live their values everywhere, not just in the workplace.

What first separates a leader from a normal human being? A leader knows who they are as a human being.

Work/life balance is not about escaping work. It’s about living exactly the way you want to when you’re at work.

When you’re a manager, you work for your company. When you’re a leader, your company works for you.

Profitability. Growth. Quality. Exceeding customer expectations. These are not examples of values. These are examples of corporate strategies being sold to you as values.

The purpose of leadership is to change the world around you in the name of your values, so you can live those values more fully.

Instead of waiting for a leader you can believe in, try this: Become a leader you can believe in.

There is no such thing as an “independent artist”. All artists are essentially co-dependent of the audience.

The organizational design is part of digital strategy management which needs to go neck-in-neck with performance management for improving organizational effectiveness and maturity.

Hitting "like" on a social media platform is the modern day version of clapping at the end of a performance.

Forward-thinking means to focus on the future, even a few steps ahead, to build the long-term prosperity.

Love is 100% percent practical, oral performance is an ultimate turn-off, whether you like it or not.