300 Quotes on Performance

• Every raised brow, a note in the silence; each twist of the lip, a crafted melody--subtle expressions compose an unseen dance through emotions.

  Author: Mira Ellis

• Every crease of the brow and flicker of the eye performs a delicate dance--mapping unspoken hopes to whimsical desire.

  Author: Elora Falcyone

• In the ballet of human interaction, the subtlest arch of an eyebrow or a flicker of an eye can narrate a epilogue that words scaffold within depths undeciphered.

  Author: Lara DeSymptoms

• In the grand ballet of existence, each laugh rings out like a drop of light forgotten in the depths, escaping to dance fractures through the very air anticipating their blooming company.

  Author: Ava Morgan

• Laughter dances through the air like a wind chime swaying in a spectral breeze, a symphony of echoes nurturing curiosity and connection.

  Author: Mei Jin

• The choreography of echoing laughter unfolds like petals cascading in synchronized torment, sprouting waves of joy each time warmth pierces silence's steadfast grip.

  Author: Elena Fernandez

• Each echo of laughter seamlessly composes a delicate ballet of joy, reminding us that even an idea reverberated can birth connection.

  Author: Avery Hartwood

• Laughter, like choreography written in joy's invisible ink, dances back to us ripple by ripple, an ode to moments we never hide yet refuse to forget.

  Author: Maya Reynolds

• In the symphony of mirth, laughter moves like dancers in a silent dialogue, mirroring not just the joy we feel but entraining others to write their own chapters in the air.

  Author: Clara Estes

• In the space between notes arises the miracle of shared joy, where footsteps reconnectaughter entwines in steps best freed, a mightdown epidemic of sound pium strata ports toirected skies

  Author: Melodia Serifku

• Unrehearsed dialogues in public spaces remind us that life is not scripted; the exchanges become vivid minor acts played before the theatre of too-busy street corners.

  Author: Maya Perkin

• Sometimes what we label as errors become the ink that sketches innovation's blueprint.

  Author: Jane Holloway

• Dancing with fleeting emotions often disparages our unspeakable depths; each reach and turn captures a graceling nova in time, beautifully trapped on the stage of our hearts.

  Author: Raven Koslow

• Each heartfelt moment leaps gracefully, only to dissolve like heat rays in the sunlight, birthing a dance that embodies the impermanence species essence interprets.

  Author: Elena Yu

• Dance is the art of expressing the unsaid, each step a whisper of buried truths set free and tangled in the chaos of silent longing.

  Author: Mara Belle

• Every unmatched moment encodes a raw movement, shifting bodies to linger longer on what it feels to just be alive.

  Author: Alexandra Welles

• Just as brushstrokes mold the essence of a fleeting sketch, the delicate interplay of rapid-fire emotions creates an ephemeral dance that tells more than mere words could ever express.

  Author: Lena Weith

• Capturing ephemeral feelings through choreography is akin to harnessing the sudden sparks of weather - unpredictable, yet undeniably powerful when tempers seethe and spirits rejoice.

  Author: Evelyn Marken

• Emotions are like silhouettes on the dance floor; they reveal a temporary rhythm of our senators about grief and joy, embodying a connection that remains in motion long after the music fades.

  Author: Eleanor Adelcorn

• Emotions are the improvisational dance between light and shadow, forming a symphony of expression that captures our brightest elations and darkest fears.

  Author: Aurora Merritt

• Amidst the mercurial ballet of our senses, emotions outpace commitment, changing assumptions into gravity defying pirouettes.

  Author: Mia Huerta

• In every unwritten refrain, ambient music both stitches intricate feelings and drapes silence anew upon the listener, twisting familiarity into flights of transcendent use and abstract freedom.

  Author: Clara Marciano

• In the fractured rhythms of concrete jungles, the flicker of wings composes melodies where the skyscrAPERs stand silent and the truth only the orchestrApacheerns know flows like whispered secrets between brick.

  Author: Emilie Juniper

• In the dance of fleeting thoughts, where each idea pirouettes into oblivion, we discover the rhythm of remembering--and the freedom in forgetting.

  Author: Alan Carrington

• In the tumult of consciousness, every soaring idea reveals its irregular dance--allercor = its ephemeral steps are, complex masterpiece behold the fleeting cohesion flowing frule asynchronous absarc of illusionkinematic imagination.

  Author: Aurelia Hartellone

• In the quiet sway of effective progress, it is the pace of intention that explores possibilities even amid imperatitve change.

  Author: Lila Sage

• In every simmer and stir, one synchronizes taste with time; the kitchen is a dance, unscripted yet profound.

  Author: Aurora Tucci

• The cultivation of flavors waltzes within measures so gentle, weaving unseen flows between each jot of spice--a dance orchestrating sensation as untreated beauty becomes lingered taste.

  Author: Elise Devaux

• Cooking is a dance of flavours; each stir a heartbeat, every spice a step that sways the palate into embracing harmony.

  Author: Sophia Kenyon

• In the gentle pauses between footsteps and echoing words, the city unfolds hidden symphonies of tranquility that we must learn to hear.

  Author: Eleni Markos

• True strategy wears a smile, inviting mixology between foresight and whimsy.

  Author: Ariaeling Thespitian

• The mind dances with grace when mastery folds into the fabric of instinct, weaving beauty through uncluttered perseverance.

  Author: Elise Rosenthal

• Grace enfolds those who have poignantly danced between trials and tranquility, thus making mastery feel serene and underplayed.

  Author: Arthur Piena

• True elegance lies not in a display of complexity, but that idyllic moment when practice transforms to play, enchanting all who observe its flow.

  Author: Edith LaVere

• True mastery glimmers when the chaotic heart of intention obediently translates into exquisite fluidity.

  Author: Arda Zhong

• True elegance lies not in forced display, but in the luminosity of practiced ease, where talent pirouettes gracefully between diligence and desire.

  Author: Rai Linette

• True elegance resides not in the ease of movement but in the depth of understanding that renews every action with grace.

  Author: Eliana Sterling

• When dexterity becomes indistinguishable from spontaneity, that's where artistry blooms unconsciously.

  Author: Sofia Landon

• True artistry resonates in the quiet spaces between effort and ability - when graceful movements whisper mastery without tiring airs.

  Author: Clara Montgomery

• True elegance thrives where air meets skill; in not only what we achieve, but the grace entwined in improvisation.

  Author: Clara Archer

• True elegance resides not in what one conveys, but in the infinitely graceful tide of opportunity when mastery flows unforced into every action.

  Author: Luna Harper

• True elegance lies not in attempting grandeur, but in succinct simplicity; mastery is made beautiful when art withdraws from labor's clamorous shout.

  Author: Evelyn Lysander

• True brilliance remains understated - a tapestry beautified by its simplicity rather than its complexity.

  Author: elaynor Bloomstone

• True mastery suggests not just repeated motion, but said motion seamlessly orchestrated; in the dance of design, elegance wears a whisper.

  Author: Jasper Reed

• Mastery shines when embracing simplicity; true elegance is letting skill sparkle without effort showing wear.

  Author: Clara Harfeld

• Mastery wears a mask of repose; true elegance lies hidden in the relentless refinement practiced beyond the limelight.

  Author: Nova Creategood

• Silence can be, inconspicuously, the fiercest dance, inviting askew feet to step off the beat into revolutionary harmony.

  Author: Noah Lemonade

• In moments silenced, we oft grasp whimsy in silent riddance; it is within the unported moments that breakthroughs are vehemently charted.

  Author: Lena October

• Silence, when disturbed, becomes the most deafening dance--each movement revealing layers of tension beneath a composed surface.

  Author: Ava Keller

• In the rhythm of imperfect words, we find not the error but the authenticity--and therein lies a raw beauty poetic beyond perfection.

  Author: Elara Villefort

• In every unclaimed space lies not an absence, but an invitation to rekindle the shadows of possibility and redefine what belonging truly means.

  Author: Maya Antonov

• In the pulse of improvisation, each unscripted dialogue sings its own unrepeatable song, weaving gratitude for what emerges beside comfort's resolve.

  Author: Anna Morel

• Unscripted dialogues capture the heartbeat of truth--raw and spontaneous thoughts; they're the whispers of our authenticity unframed by perfection.

  Author: Mia Terse

• In bringing raw emotions to the forefront, unscripted dialogues unravel our truths much more vividly than rehearsed exchanges ever can.

  Author: Elowen Morse

• In the midst of music that stirs the imagination, emotions unravel and weave the dance of dialogue--each act of interaction becomes a step synchronized as it combines chaos with intention.

  Author: Elena Viedig

• True spontaneity dances on the edge of expectation, composing hidden harmonies out of life's unplanned notes.

  Author: Olivia Strauss

• True artistry flourishes when crafted intentivity surrenders to the unrehearsed; chaos learns the signatures of grace.

  Author: Claudia Raymore

• Just as a wireless chord session flows into undanced silences, there's artistry in allowing spontaneity to shaped Contributions bloom, guiding one wild step to the unfcdn pulses of originality.

  Author: Ava Sanchez

• Within the fractures of history, communities perform a dance of fortitude, reimagining old steps while scripting new ones with the strength of their heritage.

  Author: Mia Gonzalez

• The dance of survival isn't marked by absence of adversity, but by the solidarity in movement towards reimagining our heritage.

  Author: Matinee Graves

• Performance is dictated not just by rhythm but by adaptability; culture courts resilience like dance in flourishes of misstep learning into expressions of radical growth.

  Author: Mira Settanni

• Cultural resilience is not simply enduring; it's the intricate danse of memory and innovation, where every echo of the past finds harmony in the rhythm of the future.

  Author: Elara Ming

• In everyday actions, bravery whispers rather than shouts; it weaves the delicate threads of kindness with the silken hands of courage.

  Author: Avery Thorn

• When the edges of reality fade like a gesture toward the ineffable, it is in clarity's embrace that daydreams unfold, grounding flights of fancy with the weight of intention.

  Author: Rowan Hallfreid

• Clarity ignites change; only when you embrace discomfort canelo (you become sharp ergonomic) edge can pierce the complexities hidden within oneself.

  Author: Monty Injector

• Through each challenge traversed, mental toughness becomes the archaeological essence beneath the surface--engaging mindfulness to excavate hidden strengths.

  Author: Rowan Locke

• Mental toughness is threading determination through the needle of vulnerability, crafting resilience from the lessons in pain.

  Author: Clara Baldwin

• True mental toughness isn't just facing fears, but elegantly dancing with uncertainty until tomorrow sings a clearer tune.

  Author: Rena Hartwell

• True mental toughness is not built by shielding yourself from adversity, but by inviting it in and rewriting the narrative it desires to impose on your soul.

  Author: Avery Johnson

• Our resilience shapes not just who we overcome, but entirely shifts the fabric we stand upon.

  Author: Clara Westbrook

• True mental toughness stems from the clarity to navigate chaos and the flexibility to bend but never break.

  Author: Aria Thompson

• Mental toughness is not the absence of shaking in the storm; it is the tremor turning into rhythm, harmonizing with the pulses of challenge.

  Author: Jordan Voss

• Harness the storm swirling inside you; mental toughness is not the absence of weakness, but the artistry of embracing it as strength.

  Author: Taylor Marks

• No strength in the body can compensate for a weak mind; embrace discomfort today, and the battles of tomorrow will play in your favor.

  Author: Emma Delaunay

• Mental toughness isn't just the ability to lift your spirit; it's withstanding the storms that may just fog the clarity of your path.

  Author: Lena Cross

• Even when life burdens, songs trail behind to reignite private glimpses.

  Author: The British Songstress - Adele Adkins

• Don't be a drag, just be a queen.

  Author: Mother Monster - Lady Gaga

• Blending our personas, shame ignites our glory.

  Author: Mr. Fahrenheit - Freddie Mercury

• I'm just a weekend man

  Author: Mr. Fahrenheit - Freddie Mercury

• Within the chaos of unrehearsed inquiry, our minds bravely carve out pathways toward the silky cliffs of unimaginable skill.

  Author: Elena Roberts

• In the silence between intention and achievement, mastery emerges, wafting like a whisper, inexplicable and remarkable--often bypassing the arduous avenues bit-by-bit grown habitual.

  Author: Ada Kendrick

• The veil of accomplishment often lifts only after countless uncharted moments evolve into your hands: skill in the wild emerges without formal tracing.

  Author: Elena Lee

• Mastery is not just thunder from a clear sky; it is the quiet whisper of unawakened potential just before it learns to soar.

  Author: Elara Finch

• Every sale is a puzzle, the pieces neatly fitting together through understanding and connection—the need lies in the space between Hast and Holly.

  Author: Livia Cotton

• Success is neither owned nor rented, it is only borrowed; sole repayment is hard work and dedication.

  Author: Sarah Johnson

• Success is not built on pedigree, it's built on performance.

  Author: Rahul Dravid

• Success is not about how hard you hit, but how gracefully you can get back up from a fall.

  Author: Samantha Johnson

• Success is not about being the best, but rather giving your best.

  Author: Samantha James

• Success is not defined by how fast you reach the finish line, but by how you dance your way through the race.

  Author: Aria Mitchell

• Success echoes in the dance of persistence and resilience.

  Author: Sophia Robinson

• Do not let the fear of failing hold you back from trying; embrace every mistake as a valuable lesson in your journey towards success.

  Author: Sarah Johnson

• In the dance of life, let your passion lead and your confidence follow, for the greatest performances arise from the harmony of both.

  Author: Jasmine Roberts

• Yes, there is plenty of hard work for them in addition to that which they do when they appear, smiling and happy, when the curtain goes up. Giving a performance is the least of their worries.

  Author: Florenz Ziegfeld

• To boast of a performance which I cannot beat is merely stupid vanity. And if I can beat it that means there is nothing special about it. What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come.

  Author: Emil Zatopek

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

  Author: Frank Zappa

• In 1949 there was a new thing called Television, to which my agency and advisers opposed as a performance medium.

  Author: Loretta Young

• It is something we have always excelled at and prided ourselves at - the excellences of our stage performance.

  Author: James Young

• What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist's performance on whether or not they had a good seat?

  Author: Al Yankovic

• The console games, as they come out with this new generation, will have a temporary advantage in price performance, but there are still many things you can do on a PC, more conveniently than you can do on a console machine.

  Author: Will Wright

• I say this quite deliberately, this is the finest Shakespearean performance I've seen.

  Author: Donald Wolfit

• Even people that know Johnny Cash's music really well and know that he was married don't really know that much about June Carter. So finding out about her really helped to inform my performance and to bring her to the front in a way that she has never been before.

  Author: Reese Witherspoon

• I owe the public a good performance, the best I can give. We really bust our chops on 'CHiPs' but when I go home and get a weekend off, I want to spend it quietly, with my lady.

  Author: Larry Wilcox

• What we've seen this season is that if something that will enhance performance is available, some players will indulge... unless the penalty is an absolute deterrent.

  Author: Michael Wilbon

• I have never taken any substance to enhance my performance.

  Author: Kelli White

• Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, and is, in that sense, a performance art, biography requires different skills - research and organization.

  Author: Edmund White

• An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.

  Author: Mae West

• I guess because you study the character and you do all those things. But when it comes down to it, it's still my performance, it's still my interpretation. I'm not going to, you know, be a clone - well, I was a clone of Richard Dean Anderson!

  Author: Michael Welch

• It was more freeing, mainly because he's so free anyway. He just is in his performance. So to mimic someone doing a free performance, well, that's pretty freeing within itself.

  Author: Michael Welch

• The performance of a lifetime is the perfect thing to be doing at this age because I can use the age.

  Author: Fritz Weaver

• The white audiences thought I was white, my features being what they are, and at every performance I'd have to take off my gloves to prove I was a spade.

  Author: Ethel Waters

• Firms would be given initial entitlements to gross markup on the basis of past performance. These entitlements would be transferable and a market in them would be developed.

  Author: William Vickrey

• It wasn't just about flashing lights and pinball machines blowing up and things like that. It was about using encores, bringing back the good songs and using techniques that I knew about from rock performance.

  Author: Pete Townshend

• I didn't really have an act per se - a theatrical performance, as opposed to just: here I am, folks, and you're all supposed to be dead quiet while I sing eight or nine songs, then get off the stage.

  Author: Mel Torme

• Whenever I did a good performance, my Dad and my uncles, who were rabid movie fans, took me to the movies. There began my underlying love affair with film.

  Author: Mel Torme

• Nutrition is also a valuable component that can help athletes both protect themselves and improve performance.

  Author: Bill Toomey

• The East Germans first used biomechanics. This meant that rather than guessing about technique and form, they could apply changes to athletic performance based on science.

  Author: Bill Toomey

• You have your structure, but within it, it gets fuller and you can highlight other parts of the performance.

  Author: Marisa Tomei

• Music is a performance and needs the audience.

  Author: Michael Tippett

• Conductors don't suffer, they are part of the performance.

  Author: Michael Tippett

• All I have is my performance, I try to feed in the best of everything that I could possibly do into those 90 minutes and to make a live entertainment show out of it.

  Author: George Thorogood

• The teacher of history's work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we live and are increasingly taking our being.

  Author: William Thompson

• And at the same time, you are of course a performer, but it's very important that you understand that your role as a performer is to get the best performance from those wonderful colleagues that you have the chance to work with.

  Author: Michael Thomas

• Restoration I did because I really loved e novel and I like Michael Hoffman, who directed it, but it wasn't a really challenging part for me. I'm not critical of the film: I just don't think I gave a very interesting performance.

  Author: David Thewlis

• The necessity to constantly turn in an excellent performance, to be absolutely wedded to this dedication and this ideal means that as a child you're going to pay for it personally.

  Author: Twyla Tharp

• I come from the performance world, but the idea of a worship song is different. It's useful music.

  Author: John Tesh

• I have directed good actors and have gone through the process which is more detailed in theater in a way. You have to get people to stay for two or three hours in a performance. They need more talk and rehearsal than in films.

  Author: Julie Taymor

• There may be a hundred thousand men in an army, who are all equally free; but they only are naturally most fit to be commanders or leaders, who most excel in the virtues required for the right performance of those offices.

  Author: Algernon Sydney

• When we shoot 24, there are so many things I have to worry about, from the script to technical things to my performance, that I don't have a second to be bored or take anything for granted.

  Author: Kiefer Sutherland

• When we shoot 24, there are so many things I have to worry about, from the script to technical things to my performance, that I don't have a second to be bored or take anything for granted. We produce 24 hours of film a season, which is like making 12 movies.

  Author: Kiefer Sutherland

• Claude Rains was what we call an actor's actor. He was very involved with himself and his performance.

  Author: Gloria Stuart

• One of the things that I've always thought I would like to do is to develop an environmental index. Then people can measure their own environmental performance on an index as they do in other ways.

  Author: Maurice Strong

• When we contemplate the heroes of Christianity, and compare our feeble efforts with their astonishing performance and self devotion, we should fall into despair, were there not a few softening features, by which they are brought back to the ranks of humanity.

  Author: John Strachan

• Sometimes you have to sacrifice your performance for high heels.

  Author: Gwen Stefani

• It's such a performance to bring stuff into America. It's a great luxury when I am in England.

  Author: Terence Stamp

• Past performance speaks a tremendous amount about one's ability and likelihood for success.

  Author: Mark Spitz

• The next day I was in my school's production of All My Sons. This was the performance where I realized something was happening between me and the audience that I hadn't recognized before.

  Author: Kevin Spacey

• I just produced Criminal, this remake of Nine Queens, and one of the things that appealed to me about Nine Queens is that it was a performance piece, and that's the most fun.

  Author: Steven Soderbergh

• And one of our points of continuing conversation with our trading partners is the urgency of their taking steps to remove barriers to their improved growth performance.

  Author: John Snow

• The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.

  Author: Sydney Smith

• I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone.

  Author: Maggie Smith

• An entertainer should in his public performance keep himself out of any controversy, political or otherwise.

  Author: Kate Smith

• After I did Untamed Heart I wanted to do a film that was outrageous. I really wanted to do, you know, a performance. I don't want to allow my image to rule the choices that I make.

  Author: Christian Slater

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

  Author: Georg Simmel

• A good athlete always mentally replays a competition over and over, even in victory, to see what might be done to improve the performance the next time.

  Author: Frank Shorter

• Writing and singing does give me some kind of release from the demons of my past, it is a therapy of sorts, but to be honest, my marriage played a more important role in the acceptance of myself than performance has ever done.

  Author: Michelle Shocked

• Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?

  Author: William Shakespeare

• It is essential that we put an end to steroid abuse and set a better example for aspiring young athletes to follow, so that some day, when they make it in the All Star Game, it will be because of their own natural talents, and not because of a performance enhancing product.

  Author: Jim Sensenbrenner

• There's nothing like a play. It's so immediate and every performance is different. As an actor, you have the most control over what the audience is seeing.

  Author: David Schwimmer

• No, we've been performing our old songs a little differently each performance.

  Author: Fred Schneider

• I thought his performance was absolutely wonderful and had said so, but he seemed, as actors quite often are when they first see.something, to be disappointed. I think he expected more from the film and himself.

  Author: John Schlesinger

• I started off in a small theatre performance company and worked my way into commercials.

  Author: Devon Sawa

• If the seams are showing, there is something wrong with the performance or the construction of the piece. This idea is completely at odds with our modern visual experience, because everything today is based on montage.

  Author: Esa-Pekka Salonen

• Be able to resign. It will improve your value to the President and do wonders for your performance.

  Author: Donald Rumsfeld

• Your performance depends on your people. Select the best, train them and back them. When errors occur, give sharper guidance. If errors persist or if the fit feels wrong, help them move on. The country cannot afford amateur hour in the White House.

  Author: Donald Rumsfeld

• It was important to have a similar energy in my performance. To make the character too different would have just been about my ego because it didn't need to be drastically different.

  Author: Brandon Routh

• He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in performance of it.

  Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.

  Author: Jean Rousseau

• America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

  Author: Harold Rosenberg

• When recordings replaced concerts as the dominant mode of hearing music, our conception of the nature of performance and of music itself was altered.

  Author: Charles Rosen

• Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.

  Author: Franklin Roosevelt

• Well, you would have to say what is the criteria to determine the success of any merger? It would have to be that the companies are stronger financially, that they took market share, and they are on a very steady footing in terms of their performance.

  Author: Kevin Rollins

• Giving a good performance, giving it all is what it's all about. I love to perform.

  Author: Henry Rollins

• Those differences are what color the performance, but in the movies you don't get a chance to rehearse.

  Author: Wayne Rogers

• My guess is many top athletes, distance runners included, use performance-enhancing drugs, enough so that the problem must be tackled.

  Author: Bill Rodgers

• It's always been performance art, but now it's on a different level.

  Author: Mark Roberts

• I wouldn't do nudity in films. For me, personally... To act with my clothes on is a performance; to act with my clothes off is a documentary.

  Author: Julia Roberts

• Your performance gets you promoted. It doesn't matter if you're brown, back or white.

  Author: Geraldo Rivera

• A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

  Author: Pat Riley

• To me, as long as we've known each other, I've always thought Mick's most brilliant thing was that he could work in an area two foot square and give a very exciting performance.

  Author: Keith Richards

• Did you know I staged the first performance in America of At the Hawk's Well?

  Author: Kenneth Rexroth

• If I had a bad performance in a particular leotard, I threw it in the trash.

  Author: Mary Retton

• Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance.

  Author: Natalie Portman

• Even though I don't feel I need approval, it's still important to me to give a good performance. I'm hard on myself.

  Author: Michelle Pfeiffer

• Sayles could pull a performance out of a dog. I'm serious. He was just amazing. The world could fall apart and he remained on neutral.

  Author: Elizabeth Pena

• When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

  Author: Joe Paterno

• The Dark Side of the Moon has flash - the true flash that comes from the excellence of a superb performance.

  Author: Alan Parsons

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

  Author: Gwyneth Paltrow

• In the theater, you go from point A to point Z, building your performance as the evening progresses. You have to relinquish that control on a film.

  Author: Gwyneth Paltrow

• There are some people, by the way, that associate a certain amount of visualization with the performance of music. Those are people that really are not centrally concerned only with music, the traditional things.

  Author: Leo Ornstein

• I always want to do things that are different. I don't want to be doing the same thing, the same performance constantly, and it feels like most people tell you that they are the same. However different you feel might approach them.

  Author: Jeremy Northam

• The development of a political-economic framework to explore long-run institutional change occupied me during all of the 1980s and led to the publication of Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance in 1990.

  Author: Douglass North

• My strong point, if I have a strong point, is performance. I always do more than I say. I always produce more than I promise.

  Author: Richard Nixon

• What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.

  Author: Richard Nixon

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

  Author: Stevie Nicks

• 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.

  Author: Gavin Newsom

• You have to channel the interpretation and performance into 100 people. And with the audience, the critics.

  Author: Riccardo Muti

• I am certainly suffering from a modicum of performance anxiety.

  Author: George Murray

• Some directors cast you because they trust you to do the performance - but then they forget to direct you.

  Author: Samantha Morton

• When you're buying real growth and want real performance, you buy excellent management and good products and you diversify across industry sectors.

  Author: Robert Morse

• I've done scenes in films that I felt like the performance was better in certain takes, but they couldn't use them because it didn't match what the person was doing when they came around and the camera was on them.

  Author: David Morse

• Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it.

  Author: Van Morrison

• I remember the difficulty we had in the beginning replacing magnetic cores in memories and eventually we had both cost and performance advantages. But it wasn't at all clear in the beginning.

  Author: Gordon Moore

• When a pianist sits down and does a virtuoso performance he is in a technical sense transmitting more information to a machine than any other human activity involving machinery allows.

  Author: Robert Moog

• For me, making the show work was getting belly laughs - like most variety artists. But the straight actor believes you fix your performance in rehearsal and that's it.

  Author: Ron Moody

• Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative.

  Author: Adrian Mitchell

• I preferred delivering my performance in person. I liked to be in control. You couldn't be in films.

  Author: Ethel Merman

• 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.

  Author: Sam Mendes

• Jackie considered his resurrection, the world's best return performance.

  Author: Audrey Meadows

• I consider that my best performance ever was as Peer Gynt.

  Author: Leo McKern

• When we'd suggested doing it, the Theatre Royal management had said, 'Nobody wants to see Waiting for Godot.' As it happened, every single ticket was booked for every single performance, and this confirmation that our judgment was right was sweet. Audiences came to us from all over the world. It was amazing.

  Author: Ian McKellen

• One only has to look at the performance of the economy to understand how it shapes the perspective of America's youth about military service.

  Author: John McHugh

• If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there - not because you've done a comedy performance but because you're talking about your father dying or having young children, things that touch your soul.

  Author: Roger McGough

• I take the longest to get ready of anyone. I've been going in two hours before the show every performance.

  Author: Rue McClanahan

• It is strange how your understanding of a play changes. It normally happens after a performance and you suddenly think, 'So that's what that line really means' - it's like a light going on.

  Author: Richard McCabe

• I had a flair for comedy and could give a sustained performance.

  Author: Jessie Matthews

• No one will ever argue that someone could have played Helen Keller better than Patty Duke. It was an incredibly demanding role and I don't think anyone can argue that it was a false performance.

  Author: Richard Masur

• As I came to New York, it was for me a new beginning. To discover what people are living here. What do they need, what do they expect, what would they like to be the image and the performance of the New York Philharmonic?

  Author: Kurt Masur

• 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.

  Author: Ralph Marston

• 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.

  Author: James Marsters

• So, sometimes, when I'm not happy with my performance and I have to think, I will think in English.

  Author: Sophie Marceau

• One of my side strange abilities is to hear a good song, no matter how it's being performed. Even if you get a bad performance, I can still hear that there's a good song.

  Author: Manfred Mann

• I made many studio albums and I think the danger of studio recording is that if you do not watch out, you come out with a perfectly sterile performance.

  Author: Chuck Mangione

• To pay 60 musicians for rehearsal and performance is quite something, and I decided I wouldn't be able to handle that kind of situation financially again, unless somebody else was taking care of that end of it.

  Author: Chuck Mangione

• 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.

  Author: Malcolm Malcolm X

• Denzel Washington invoked confidence. When you have confidence, you can do anything. And that's what happened. I learned about being honest and keeping it true, keeping it true in my performance.

  Author: Derek Luke

• The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.

  Author: Bela Lugosi

• A screen actor is compensated in the knowledge that millions will see his performance at one time, where only hundreds will see it on the stage.

  Author: Bela Lugosi

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

  Author: Richard Lugar

• People come up to me as I leave the stage after a performance and tell me tey saw my mother onstage with me every time I sing. I keep a sense of humor about it.

  Author: Lorna Luft

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

  Author: Jay London

• I still get really nervous, though, before each performance. It kind of hits about 15 minutes before we go onstage - sometimes I don't even want to go on. But once I'm onstage I'm fine.

  Author: Alison Lohman

• We need improvement in the style of performance. There is no more advantage in a musician who plays and conducts than in one who is only a beater of rhythm.

  Author: Franz Liszt

• Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.

  Author: Georg Lichtenberg

• It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.

  Author: David Lawrence

• We all have levels of performance.

  Author: Angela Lansbury

• The first thing you have to do is take everything with a grain of salt. You know, you've gotta just look at the goal, focus on what you gotta do and take one step at a time as a whole, as every performance being that's it, that's one objective, and let's just move forward and work on that.

  Author: Stefano Langone

• The principle element in a performance is risk, and if you're losing interest then by scaring yourself to death the audience will feel it and boy it'll wake them up.

  Author: Leo Kottke

• The bulk of my set is instrumental and you have to give yourself and the audience some relief because a performance is not about great guitar playing it's really about entertainment.

  Author: Leo Kottke

• Secular artists see themselves with performance; they are more self involved, presentational.

  Author: Boris Kodjoe

• I think you can really tell a good actor if you can put a camera on them and they can just talk and emote and react and you don't have to keep cutting away from them, because they are the language and the behavior. It's all a tour-de-force performance.

  Author: Sally Kirkland

• I'd also like to do a play. I've never done theater, and constantly changing and refining a performance is something I'd like to do, even though it may sound like work to some people - and it probably is work.

  Author: Nastassja Kinski

• If I were to play somebody who ran a fish and chip shop, I would not work in a fish and chip shop for three months. Staring at chips is not going to help me in my performance.

  Author: Ben Kingsley

• You go for the quality of the performance, not the longevity of it.

  Author: Don King

• Yesterday morning I amused myself with an exercise of a talent I once possessed, but have so neglected that my performance might almost be called an experiment. I cut out a dress for one of the women.

  Author: Fanny Kemble

• Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and women.

  Author: Lord Kelvin

• We always had chocolates and my mother was careful to make sure they were unwrapped in advance so the paper wouldn't rustle in the middle of a performance.

  Author: Penelope Keith

• The choreography of intangible heritage dances beyond temporality, involving not only the past reminiscence of steps but also the intricate threading of cultures into the future.

  Author: Aiyana Rios

• In harnessing stories, gestures share ancestral truths; each choreography a dance of the visible and invisible threads that stitch our shared past.

  Author: Eliana Chen

• Intangible heritage like dance unravels the fabric of identity, weaving unseen steps that bind generations, invoking spirits drawn from lifetimes past.

  Author: Sofia Alvarez

• In the interplay of moved fingers and forgotten songs, the pulses of prior generations encircle us, waiting to ignite where movement meets memory.

  Author: Elina Sofiyaa

• Sacred, delicate steps woven through valleys of laughter and song, an unseen dance revealing the spirit of a people.

  Author: Maya Iwoye

• I think it killed the performance on a lot of the systems in the Labs for years because everyone had their own copy of it, but it wasn't being shared, and so they wasted huge amounts of memory back when memory was expensive.

  Author: Bill Joy

• Just as dance transforms mere steps into communion with the past, intangible heritage invites us to sway rhythmically through time, weaving individual stories into the fabric of a shared mark.

  Author: Clara Emmon

• A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus.

  Author: Vernon Jordan

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

  Author: Marion Jones

• A performance is only as good as the audience you are playing to. A lot of times you feed off of the audience, and we always try to give them all we've got and sometimes you don't get a lot back, but we've never been dead whenever we've performed.

  Author: Kelly Jones

• To dance through the echoes of our past is to ink our identities upon the pages of tomorrow, each motion a word uninhibited by form, breathing life into the tenets of our forebears.

  Author: William Estrada

• Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

  Author: Samuel Johnson

• Good directing is about getting the performance to be just what's right for the movie.

  Author: Roland Joffe

• Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself.

  Author: Billy Joel

• Nobody has milked one performance better than me - and I'm damned proud of it.

  Author: Bruce Jenner

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

  Author: Joseph Jarman

• The luminance of psychological echoes illuminates not the things we've lost but the shadows of our potential--a canvas painted not just with Struggle, but the spectrum of who've we always dreamed to be.

  Author: Elara Mitchel

• 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.

  Author: Bo Jackson

• The world is crawling with authors touring now. They're like performance artists.

  Author: Kazuo Ishiguro

• The president's poking fun at himself over what goes down. I thought it was a good-natured performance. It made him look good. But he certainly doesn't disguise the record on weapons of mass destruction. And you feel like saying to people, Just get over it.

  Author: Brit Hume

• The eating of burning brimstone is an entirely fake performance.

  Author: Harry Houdini

• Nobody can give a good performance unless the authors and composers have written a good part, a fact which is often overlooked.

  Author: Judy Holliday

• Some books claim I have already clocked up a century of Grands Prix, but let me put the record straight. Australia will be my 100th start, and I aim to mark the milestone with a cracking performance. It could even be celebrated with a victory.

  Author: Damon Hill

• I try to keep myself on an even keel by trying to be as critical of myself as I am of other people. I try to separate my performance from myself.

  Author: Damon Hill

• 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.

  Author: Ernest Hemingway

• If you give it good concentration, good energy, good heart and good performance, the song will play you.

  Author: Levon Helm

• To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible.

  Author: Rutherford Hayes

• I'm not saying that more performance wouldn't be better - all these technologies are going to get better - that's the difference between first generation and second generation.

  Author: Trip Hawkins

• I went to a performance of 'The Crucible' at the Guthrie when I was a sophomore in high school, and I knew right away that that's what I wanted to do.

  Author: John Hawkes

• I think that technology has both introduced new sounds but also allowed an increasingly painterly approach to recording music as you can now paint over what you've done and more and more refine an existing performance.

  Author: Jerry Harrison

• I just try to touch people's hearts in a way through skating, so they're not just witnessing a performance, they're feeling a performance and they're a part of it.

  Author: Scott Hamilton

• I imagined that it might be awkward to talk to your wife about her performance, so going into it I was a little nervous. But doing it was actually a wonderfully inspiring experience.

  Author: Lasse Hallstrom

• I am always more interested in performance and character depiction, and my direction says as much.

  Author: Lasse Hallstrom

• I love doing theater so much - being in front of an audience and seeing how a character grows and develops with every performance.

  Author: Jerry Hall

• I try to get the best performance an actor can give.

  Author: Taylor Hackford

• Look at Walter Huston in The Devil and Daniel Webster: It's an incredible performance.

  Author: Taylor Hackford

• 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.

  Author: Andy Grove

• I'm worried because of my mother, she's going to see my performance and she's quite hard. She's going to see me naked. And my Dad, woah. Yeah, they're going to see me like a woman, you know?

  Author: Eva Green

• We need to make sure parents and coaches are aware of the dangers an on the look-out for the warning signs. Performance enhancing drugs are too damaging to young people for parents and coaches to not be involved.

  Author: Chuck Grassley

• So much depends on the performance, and here you are also tied up in the emotion the game evokes.

  Author: David Gower

• An announcer is only as good as yesterday's performance.

  Author: Curt Gowdy

• If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.

  Author: Johann Goethe

• I would have liked it to have stayed serious and have the adventures of a family lost in space. This isn't to take anything away from Jonathan and the Robot. I watch his performance today and he still makes me laugh.

  Author: Mark Goddard

• To pay out millions upon millions of dollars in bonuses for incomplete work, poor performance, and unacceptable products is the height of government waste and mismanagement.

  Author: Jim Gibbons

• The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event.

  Author: Edward Gibbon

• It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.

  Author: Harold Geneen

• I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises - but only performance is reality.

  Author: Harold Geneen

• It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.

  Author: Harold Geneen

• In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

  Author: Harold Geneen

• 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.

  Author: Harold Geneen

• Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away.

  Author: Harold Geneen

• Performance is your reality. Forget everything else.

  Author: Harold Geneen

• As far as performance, the roar of the crowd, the smell of the greasepaint no I don't feel that.

  Author: Peter Garrett

• The strongest results were in Florida and Texas. In just one year in a Texas charter school, an average student gained 7 percentile points in math and 8 percentile points in reading, while Florida charter schools improved student performance by 6 percentile points.

  Author: Maggie Gallagher

• I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.

  Author: Lady Gaga

• Then certainly for a musician timing becomes something that is immediately accessible as a concept, because it's a necessity in ones everyday performance.

  Author: Robert Fripp

• I've been onstage once for one performance with four days' rehearsal.

  Author: Anna Friel

• 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.

  Author: Lukas Foss

• As I sit down and start to work, I often panic. I stare at the empty piece of music paper. How can I say that my piece will be ready for performance next January when I do not have a recipe for making it happen?

  Author: Lukas Foss

• Personality is essential. It is in every work of art. When someone walks on stage for a performance and has charisma, everyone is convinced that he has personality. I find that charisma is merely a form of showmanship. Movie stars usually have it. A politician has to have it.

  Author: Lukas Foss

• All the dialogue on tape, and we'd play the tape in performance. Then I thought it'd be interesting if the actor's repeated what they heard on the tape, but at a slower speed, so we'd get a web of language.

  Author: Richard Foreman

• The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.

  Author: Harrison Ford

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

  Author: John Fogerty

• A total commitment is paramount to reaching the ultimate in performance.

  Author: Tom Flores

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