Performances Quotes

• I remember watching the Grammys and looking at the performances and crying to my mom, saying how much I wanted to be there.

  Christina Aguilera

  Mom, Mother, Remember

  "Christina Aguilera Interview BURLESQUE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 16, 2010.

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• Behind every brilliant performance there were countless hours of practice and preparation.

  Eric Butterworth

  Success, Practice, Achievement

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• Coaching is unlocking a person's potential to maximize their own performance. It is helping them to learn rather than teaching them.

  Timothy Gallwey

  Teamwork, Teaching, Learning

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• Hang on the walls of your mind the memory of your successes. Take counsel of your strength, not your weakness. Think of the good jobs you have done. Think of the times when you rose above your average level of performance and carried out an idea or a dream or a desire for which you had deeply longed. Hang these pictures on the walls of your mind and look at them as you travel the roadway of life.

  James Whistler

  Inspirational, Strength, Success

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• To put it in gentleman's terms if you've been out for a night and you're looking for a young lady and you pull one, some weeks they're good looking and some weeks they're not the best. Our performance today would have been not the best looking bird but at least we got her in the taxi. She may not have been the best looking lady we ended up taking home but it was still very pleasant and very nice, so thanks very much and let's have coffee.

  Ian Holloway

  Football, Nice, Coffee

  "Gordon Strachan V Ian Holloway: Sportsmail Picks Their Top 10 Funny Quotes Ahead of Middlesbrough's Showdown With Blackpool". www.dailymail.co.uk. December 08, 2009.

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• The desire to maximize the number of winning trades (or minimize the number of losing trades) works against the trader. The success rate of trades is the least important performance statistic and may even be inversely related to performance.

  William Eckhardt

  Success, Winning, Numbers

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• I do a lot of American plays. I've done a lot of Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams and Neil Simon. I was in 'Sisters Rosensweig,' 'Six Degrees of Separation,' all of that stuff. So we're very familiar with America. I did 400 performances of 'Born Yesterday.' I did 700 performances of 'They're Playing Our Song.'

  Jacki Weaver

  Song, America, Play

  "Jacki Weaver Interview ANIMAL KINGDOM". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. August 12, 2010.

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• Performance wasnt something that I intended to do. I was doing work that was about process, about the meaning of the making, trying to have a love-hate relationship with the object. I always feel safer if I can bring the viewer back to the making of it. I try to do that in a lot of different ways, by residue, by touch, by these processes that are basic to all of our lives...that people might relate to in terms of process, everyday activities- bathing, eating, etc.

  Janine Antoni

  Art, Hate, People

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• Each gig should be unique. You're always treading that line between keeping yourself fresh and giving people something they want to hear

  Brian May

  Unique, People, Giving

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• It is not always possible to be the best, but it is always possible to improve your own performance.

  Jackie Stewart

  Racing, Self Improvement, Being The Best

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• One has to set high standards... I can never be happy with mediocre performance.

  Patrice Motsepe

  Happiness, Perfection, High Standards

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• I find beauty in the continual shaping of chaos which clearly embodies the primordial power of nature's performance

  Iris van Herpen

  Beauty, Nature, Power

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• The seven Ps: Proper Planning and Preparation Prevent Piss-Poor Performance

  John Lanchester

  Preparation, Planning, Seven

  John Lanchester (2012). “Capital”, p.308, Faber & Faber

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• While 9-5 and what happens on the job is important, what happens from 5-9, off the job, is infinitely more important.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Time, Jobs

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Mar 26, 2014

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• I fell in love with the process of taking pictures, with wandering around finding things. To me it feels like a kind of performance. The picture is a document of that performance.

  Alec Soth

  Photography, Falling In Love, Wandering Around

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• If you're always in a hurry, always trying to get ahead of the other guy, or someone else's performance is what motivates you, then that person is in control of you.

  Wayne Dyer

  Motivational, Power, Always Trying

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Mar 24, 2015

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• Layering and changeability: this is the key, the combination that is worked into most of my buildings. Occupying one of these buildings is like sailing a yacht; you modify and manipulate its form and skin according to seasonal conditions and natural elements, and work with these to maximize the performance of the building.

  Glenn Murcutt

  Nature, Keys, Sailing

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• World-class performance comes by striving for a target just out of reach, but with a vivid awareness of how the gap might be breached.  Over time, through constant repetition and deep concentration, the gap will disappear, only for a new target to be created, just out of reach once again.

  Matthew Syed

  Class, Target, World

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• The terror of performing never goes away. Instead, you get very, very comfortable being terrified.

  Eric Whitacre

  Feelings, Going Away, Composer

  Twitter post from May 20, 2016

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• My first big acting performance was in the Marilyn Monroe biography piece, and it required frontal nudity. I talked to Mira Sorvino, my co-star, about how nervous I was because I didn't know how my mom would react. She said, 'Can I be completely honest with you? I've seen your mom in interviews, and she seems pretty screwed up. I don't think there's much you could do to shock a broad like that.' And from that moment on it was big nipples to the wind!

  Ashley Judd

  Mom, Stars, Thinking

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• Dance every performance as if it were your last.

  Erik Bruhn

  Dance, Dancing, Lasts

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• Your identity is firmly anchored in Christ's accomplishment, not yours; his strength, not yours; his performance, not yours; his victory, not yours.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Strength, Christian, Religious

  Tullian Tchividjian (2013). “One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World”, p.225, David C Cook

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• In the end, worship can never be a performance, something you're pretending or putting on. It's got to be an overflow of your heart...Worship is about getting personal with God, drawing close to God.

  Matt Redman

  God, Christian, Religious

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• And suddenly solitude fell across his heart like a dusty reflection. He closed his eyes. The dark doors within him opened and he entered. The next performance in the theater of Grenouille's soul was beginning.

  Patrick Süskind

  Heart, Eye, Dark

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• Mine is only one of the millions of hearts broken over the death of Whitney Houston. I will always be grateful and in awe of the wonderful performance she did on my song and I can truly say from the bottom of my heart, 'Whitney, I will always love you. You will be missed.'

  Dolly Parton

  Song, Love You, Grateful

  FaceBook post by Dolly Parton from Feb 12, 2012

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