Performance Quotes

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

A coach once told me there are four factors that determine a players' performance: his tactical awareness, his physical condition, his technical ability and his mental strength.

The best way to show respect to your fellow athletes is to give the best performance you can.

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

The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.

In '83, not only was there no such thing as performance motion capture technology, there was no such thing as digital animation. This was the analog era.

Because watercolor actually moves on the paper, it is the most active of all mediums, almost a performance art.

I'm much more energetic now; you might say live performance is my mission.

It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.

The jokes are great but what really matters for a comedian is his performance, his whole attitude, and the laughs that he gets between the jokes rather than on top of the jokes.

We were doing performance art as far back as 1965, just not calling it that.

Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious.

Peak performance is meditation in motion.

It is impossible to produce superior performance unless you do something very different.

Chris Chandler is the best performance poet I have ever seen.

Performance art is about joy, about making something that's so full of kind of a wild joy that you really can't put into words.

Every acting gig isn't the same, every writing job isn't the same, every live performance isn't the same - the challenge is the level of difficulty or ease, and that may vary.

There is only one person with whom to compete and that is yourself. Keep aiming to surpass your own best performance and ever strive to reach higher levels.

I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is fast, and enjoyable, and truly rewarding. I believe in great live performance.

If you go on stage with the wrong attitude, or something in your performance is off, you can lose an audience in the first minute. That first minute is crucial.

The musical performances do more than enrich the movie; they complete it.

I'm trying to create flesh architecture. I aim to get a sculptural feel for groups of bodies, as well as create performance art.

Shutting people down creatively often doesn't get the best performance out of them.

I try to see interviewing as performance art, and just take it as it comes.

The best kind of performance review is no performance review

Make peace with the fear of defeat... Fear holds you back from putting forth your best performance.

Like everything in life, it is not what happens to you but how you respond to it that counts.

Ethanol is a premier, high performance fuel. It has tremendous environmental benefits and is a key component to energy independence for our country.

A mind filled with negative thoughts makes you feel miserable and inadequate and will lead to failure after failure no matter how hard you try to succeed.

It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.

Music films are great, but they can never compete with a live performance. Live music is what it is. It's the whole point. You experience it in the moment.

Best performance of the year: Aston Villa v. Milan, September 1994

Don Knotts won five Emmy Awards for Outstanding Performance in a Supporting Role by an Actor or Actress in a Series [in Andy Griffith Show] in 1961, 1962, 1963, 1966 and 1967.

My father was a painter and an anarchist, always getting in trouble for his performance art.

Performance art is really about the sociology of the artist, where ideas come from, and the confluence of those ideas.

A live performance is the same no matter what genre it is. Wrestling, rock 'n roll, hosting, acting - it's the same thing.

Nothing beats a live performance. Nothing.

I started using film as part of live theatre performance - what used to be called performance art - and I became intrigued by film.

Clearly, the pleasures wines afford are transitory - but so are those of the ballet, or of a musical performance. Wine is inspiring and adds greatly to the joy of living.

A video taped stage performance is just - you know, it's never gonna be the same as it is if you're sitting there live in the theatre.

I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song 'Radio Gaga.'

Chess is one of the few arts where composition takes place simultaneously with performance

China has legally purchased high performance computers, advanced machine tools, and semiconductor-manufacturing equipment from several American companies.

When it comes to performance art, I am more interested in the failures then the so-called successes. I have never cared for entertaining anyone.

I didnt develop or build synths. I had my technicians modify them for my live stage performances.

The magic behind every outstanding performance is always found in the smallest of details.

Done right, a performance review is one of the best opportunities to encourage and support high performers and constructively improve your middle- and lower-tier workers.

I do an improv show on Sunday where we have a class, and then afterwards we go and do a live performance in front of an audience.

One of the things I love about music is live performance.

How much we like ourselves governs our performance.