Performances Quotes - Page 32

• Musicals are written and then rewritten. Those things used to happen on the road. Now they are done in New York during preview performances.

  Peter Stone

  New York, Done, Used

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• Art is revelation instead of information, expression instead of description, creation instead of imitation or repetition. Art is concerned with the HOW, not the WHAT; not with literal content, but with the performance of the factual content. The performance - how it is done - that is the content of art.

  Josef Albers

  Art, Expression, Done

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• 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.

  Larry Wilcox

  Home, Weekend, Giving

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• The passion that transforms life, and art, did not seem to be mine.

  Josephine Hart

  Art, Passion, Essentials

  "Damage: a novel".

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• One's performance is often heightened by the brilliance and generosity of other actors.

  Cyril Cusack

  Generosity, Actors, Brilliance

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

  Johnny Damon

  Looks, Learning Experience, Bad Performance

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

  Kate Smith

  Political, Should, Controversy

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• Start with changing behaviors, not mindsets. It is much easier to 'act your way into new thinking' than to 'think your way into new actions.' Recurring and consistent performance results from behavior change will lead to lasting changes in the way people feel, think, and believe in the long run.

  Jon Katzenbach

  Running, Believe, Thinking

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

  Harold Geneen

  Standing Out, Diamond

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• From George Washington to George W. Bush, presidents have invoked God's name in the performance of their official duties.

  Linda Chavez

  Sea, Names, President

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• Tom Tom Club has a whole different attitude and approach, not just musically but in performance. Some people said they liked it.

  Tina Weymouth

  Attitude, People, Different

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• There are no big things, only a logical accumulation of little things done at a very high standard of performance.

  John Wooden

  High Standards, Done, Littles

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• 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.

  Lukas Foss

  Missing, Elements, Immersion

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• 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?

  Lukas Foss

  Pieces, Paper, Recipes

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• I mean there’s a certain finality about a movie, when it’s done it’s done – that raised eyebrow in that moment will always be that raised eyebrow. Whereas a play only lives as a blueprint for a performance on any given night. There’s a reason you can eat popcorn and watch a movie and you can’t do that in the theatre. Theatre you have to lean in, you have to tune your ear to the stage and participateI respond to heat. And blood. And humanity. The cold experience is not for me. I’ve always enjoyed all the real people in a room together in the theatre.

  Tracy Letts

  Real, Mean, Night

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• Promises may get friends, but it is performance that must nurse and keep them.

  Owen Feltham

  Friendship, Nurse, Promise

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• Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Thinking, Done, Great Work

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• Nice things are done for our own sake, not for the sake of others. The pleasure must reside in the performance, not in the applause. Good deeds are, in a deeper psychological way, a favor to oneself. If this is not grasped, then our whole sense of personal relationships becomes warped.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Nice, Done, Deeds

  Sydney J. Harris (1976). “Best of Sydney J. Harris”

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• A virtuoso performance. Scott Thompson’s biography of the soldier statesman Fidel V. Ramos illustrates the fascinating and complex geography of Filipino politics and its relation with the American hegemon. It’s first-rate scholarship and equally first-rate writing.

  F. Sionil José

  Writing, Soldier, Biographies

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• I've never used performance-enhancing drugs of any kind, and I never will. I've never met or spoken with Tony Bosch or used any substances provided by him. Anything said to the contrary is a lie.

  Gio Gonzalez

  Lying, Drug, Substance

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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, Bad Performance

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• I have never had a single positive doping test, and I do not take performance-enhancing drugs.

  Lance Armstrong

  Drug, Tests, Doping

  " Lance Armstrong's doping denials - in quotes" by Stephen McMillan, www.theguardian.com. January 18, 2013.

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• Let me realize that my past failures at follow-through are no indication of my future performance. They're just healthy little fires that are gonna warm up my ass

  Ze Frank

  Past, Fire, Healthy

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• One of the basics of a good system of innovation is diversity. In some ways, the stronger the culture (national, institutional, generational, or other), the less likely it is to harbor innovative thinking. Common and deep-seated beliefs, widespread norms, and behavior and performance standards are enemies of new ideas. Any society that prides itself on being harmonious and homogeneous is very unlikely to catalyze idiosyncratic thinking. Suppression of innovation need not be overt. It can be simply a matter of peoples walking around in tacit agreement and full comfort with the status quo.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Pride, Thinking, Agreement

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• From the business point of view—not to overstate it—intellectual property is dead; long live intellectual process. Long live service; long live performance.

  Esther Dyson

  Views, Long, Intellectual

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