Performances Quotes - Page 3

• The same dynamics that promote performance also support learning and behavioral change.

  John Katzenbach

  Teamwork, Support, Team Building

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• A demanding performance challenge tends to create a team.

  John Katzenbach

  Teamwork, Challenges, Team Building

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• 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

  John Hawkes

  School, Crucible, Sophomore

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• Everything I write is personal, really. Even when I'm sarcastic, it's quite personal. And on this record, from the production to the singing to the performances, I got it really honest. To the modern ear, it seems soft. When you hear it against other things, it seems vulnerable. Lyrically and musically, though, this is more subtle. And, yes, it's asking a lot of someone who's used to being hit over the head with bright neon to listen to this.

  Ben Folds

  Sarcastic, Writing, Singing

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• Music is a performance and needs the audience.

  Michael Tippett

  Music, Needs, Audience

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• Now things have changed for the better. Our reforms end seniority and tenure so we can hire and fire based on merit and pay based on performance. That means we can put the best and the brightest in our classrooms - and we can keep them there.

  Scott Walker

  Mean, Fire, Reform

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• Like the theater, offering food and hospitality to people is a matter of showmanship, and no matter how simple the performance, unless you do it well, with love and originality, you have a flop on your hands.

  James Beard

  Simple, Offering, Hands

  James Beard (2015). “Delights and Prejudices”, p.212, Open Road Media

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• 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.

  Will Wright

  Games, Generations, Machines

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• Welcoming imperfection is the way to accomplish what perfectionism promises but never delivers. It gives us our best performance and genuine acceptance in the family of human -- and by that I mean imperfect -- beings.

  Martha Beck

  Mean, Acceptance, Giving

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• I don't rehearse films as much as opera or theatre. When I began directing films I thought a long rehearsal was a good idea. Experience showed me that the best performance was often left in a rehearsal room.

  Bruce Beresford

  Ideas, Long, Theatre

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• Nothing feels worse than having to break the stage down before the performance, and I mean nothing.

  John Mayer

  Mean, Break, Stage

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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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• You can teach a bear to tango on a barrel but his enthusiasm and performance are limited and brief.

  Lionel Tiger

  Enthusiasm, Bears, Barrels

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• To me, 'Educating Rita' is the most perfect performance I could give of a character who was as far away from me as you could possibly get and of all the films I have ever been in, I think it may be the one I am most proud of.

  Michael Caine

  Character, Thinking, Giving

  Michael Caine (2010). “The Elephant to Hollywood”, p.272, Hachette UK

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• I am often asked which of my films has come closest to my own ideal of performance, and I always answer, 'Educating Rita.'

  Michael Caine

  Answers, Film, Closest

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• For me, the performance was always playing different people. And so when I got older, was no longer the romantic leading movie star, it became more and more interesting for me, the characters I played, you know?

  Michael Caine

  Stars, Character, Interesting

  "Michael Caine: 'I Spent My Life Doing Something That I Love'". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel and Melissa Block, www.wknofm.org. May 30, 2013.

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• I just like surprising people. I never want to get to a place where people see that I am in a movie and they go see the movie and they expect a certain performance one way or the other. That is just inherently boring to me.

  John C. Reilly

  People, Want, Way

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• [A 2005 response to doping allegations] Unfortunately, the witch hunt continues and tomorrow's article is nothing short of tabloid journalism. The paper even admits in its own article that the science in question here is faulty and that I have no way to defend myself. They state: 'There will therefore be no counter-exam nor regulatory prosecutions, in a strict sense, since defendant's rights cannot be respected.' I will simply restate what I have said many times: I have never taken performance enhancing drugs.

  Lance Armstrong

  Taken, Rights, Drug

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• Comedians don`t get Oscars, so I gave up on that a long time ago. And I can`t really speak about the Oscar-worthiness of my own performance.

  Steve Martin

  Long, Comedian, Oscars

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Often the best source of information about waste, fraud, and abuse in government is an existing government employee committed to public integrity and willing to speak out. Such acts of courage and patriotism, which can sometimes save lives and often save taxpayer dollars, should be encouraged rather than stifled as they have been during the Bush administration. We need to empower federal employees as watchdogs of wrongdoing and partners in performance.

  Barack Obama

  Integrity, Government, Speaks Out

  "Obama Urged to Back New Whistleblower Act" by Ed O'Keefe, voices.washingtonpost.com. April 2009.

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• I don't care what the press is about a person that I'm working with. I care about how they come to work every day. I don't care who broke up with who or who is sleeping with who or who went out where. I don't care what you do with your personal life. It's when people take their personal lives into a space where it affects their performance at work, that's when I would stop taking someone seriously.

  Sophia Bush

  Sleep, Space, People

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• Lance Armstrong admitted he used performance-enhancing drugs throughout his career. He confessed in front of the most respected judge in the land, Oprah Winfrey.

  Craig Ferguson

  Land, Careers, Judging

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• Nothing surpasses my performances with small bands, especially with Charlie Parker. A small band doesn't forestall creativity.

  Dizzy Gillespie

  Creativity, Band, Charlie

  Dizzy Gillespie (2009). “To Be, Or Not-- to Bop”, p.367, U of Minnesota Press

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• Jazz is America's own. It is played and listened to by all peoples - in harmony together. Pigmentation differences have no place... as in genuine democracy, only performance counts.

  Norman Granz

  Differences, America, Democracy

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• The foreign players seem to be reveling in the European games and they've put in some massive performances for us. 
  (on Liverpool)

  Steven Gerrard

  Player, Games, England

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