Bad Performance Quotes

• If you think you can't, you're right.

  Carol Bartz

  Inspirational, Positive, Smart

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• Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive.

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "OpenGL Shading Language". Book by Randi J. Rost, 2006.

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• Sometimes when I see a bad performance and people still clap... I wonder if they're clapping because they liked what they saw or because they're happy it's over?

  Kanye West

  People, Saws, Sometimes

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• Fixable but unfixed bad performance is bad character and tends to create more of itself, causing more damage to the excuse giver with each tolerated instance.

  Charlie Munger

  Character, Damage, Excuse

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• When you're writing something new, writing something that's your own, basically you have nothing else to do except either invent a trick, use someone else's trick, or have no trick and get a bad performance.

  Nico Muhly

  Writing, Use, Something New

  Interview with Sean Michaels, believermag.com. October 1, 2008.

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

  Mary Lou Retton

  Trash, Leotards, Performances

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• Whenever I have a bad performance, I look at it as a learning experience.

  Johnny Damon

  Looks, Learning Experience, Performances

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• Classical stuff takes a lot of rehearsal time and preparation, but with stuff that involves improvisation, you can over-rehearse it and it gets stale. You don't want it to be too comfortable. In fact, a good sound check, a good rehearsal usually means a bad performance.

  John Zorn

  Mean, Preparation, Sound

  "Interview hits dissonant chord with John Zorn" by Lee Hildebrand, www.sfgate.com. August 26, 2010.

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• When you are new to the business, you think if you give a really bad performance, that's one they will print. You will be judged. You just have to be brave.

  Robbie Coltraine

  Thinking, Giving, Brave

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• He shouldn't have resigned over that game. It was not a bad performance; in fact it was quite a good one for England. I would not have resigned under those circumstances.

  Franz Beckenbauer

  Soccer, Football, Games

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• Hint: money flows into most funds after good performance, and goes out when bad performance follows.

  John C. Bogle

  Hints, Investing, Flow

  John C. Bogle (2012). “The John C. Bogle Reader”, p.1137, John Wiley & Sons

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• Every time I've had a bad performance at an event, I've come back more determined and focused.

  Shaun White

  Events, Determined, Performances

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• I've seen some of my favorite actors give bad performances, and I have to tell myself that failure is a part of success.

  Aya Cash

  Giving, Actors, My Favorite

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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