Performances Quotes - Page 33

• 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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• The voters reward good performance. So, I'm going to go out and focus, if I become the governor, to do the very best job I can as governor. The rest of it will take care of itself.

  Dave Heineman

  Jobs, Best Job, Focus

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• The children, each of those kids is in touch with nature and traditional aboriginal culture so a very important part of getting performances from them was just letting them be and trying to capture the unique spirituality that was in each of them.

  Phillip Noyce

  Children, Kids, Unique

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• I always think that a director who knows about the technical side, but cares about the acting performances and casting as well, is ahead of the game.

  Bob Balaban

  Thinking, Games, Acting

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• The most memorable performance was my appearance in concert in Carnegie Hall. The first standup to do so.

  Shelley Berman

  Memorable, Firsts, Carnegie

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

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• When the audience enjoys your performance, you feel like a magician who is doing magic. It's a great feeling!

  Kailash Kher

  Feelings, Magic, Enjoy

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• 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.

  Elizabeth Pena

  Dog, Fall, World

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• Focus on performance. Outcome is going to happen. No stress about that. Focus on performance.

  Dustin Poirier

  Stress, Mma, Focus

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• Listening and hearing are two different things, and acting is comprehending what the person is saying, thinking how it makes you feel and responding. That's the key to really honest, truthful, compelling performance.

  David Wenham

  Thinking, Keys, Two

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

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• It's always interesting to watch people who have been incredibly successful in their own businesses work in a group made up of equally strong personalities. It takes a special kind of leader who can effectively manage a team of veritable strangers and find the best way to get strong, winning performances from them.

  Donald Trump

  Success, Leadership, Strong

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• It's funny when you know you're playing two characters and you're aware of how you have to play each one into your performance of the other. You're constantly at the back of your mind thinking and it all gets a bit confusing.

  Jamie Dornan

  Character, Thinking, Play

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

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• Hackman's paradox: Groups have natural advantages: they have more resources than individuals; greater diversity of resources; more flexibility in deploying the resources; many opportunities for collective learning; and, the potential for synergy. Yet studies show that their actual performance often is subpar relative to "nominal" groups (i.e. individuals given the same task but their results are pooled.) The two most common reasons: groups are assigned work that is better done by individuals or are structured in ways that cap their full potential.

  J. Richard Hackman

  Opportunity, Often Is, Two

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• I have discovered that I cannot enhance anybody's performance without getting them not only to live with the butterflies that come with high-pressure jobs but to embrace that kind of physical response, enjoy it, get into it. That's the first real ticket to being a performer who thinks exceptionally.

  John Eliot

  Jobs, Real, Butterfly

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• When law enforcers are shown to have such unswerving integrity, only the most churlish among us would question the methods they use to "get their man." Constitutional guarantees are regarded as bothersome "technicalities" that impede honest law enforcers in the performance of their duties.

  Donna Woolfolk Cross

  Integrity, Men, Law

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• And, indeed, what little of beauty and peace is to be found in the societies of men is owing to the daily performance of small duties, not to big doings and fine talk.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational, Life, Men

  Rabindranath Tagore (1994). “The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany”, p.62, Sahitya Akademi

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• Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend - if you have one. Telegram inviting Winston Churchill to opening night of Pygmalion. Churchill wired back: Impossible to be present for the first performance. Will attend the second - if there is one.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Friendship, Night, Pygmalion

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• KISS, n. A word invented by the poets as a rhyme for "bliss." It is supposed to signify, in a general way, some kind of rite or ceremony appertaining to a good understanding; but the manner of its performance is unknown to this lexicographer.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Kissing, Understanding, Lexicographer

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.120, 谷月社

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• It seems strange to make a priori arguments about the relative performance of governments and the markets in health care when there is so much empirical evidence.

  John Quiggin

  Government, Care, Libertarian

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• Performance shots are a waste of time, they look like everyone else's. If you want to shoot a performer, then grab them, own them, you have to own people, then twist them into what you want to say about them.

  Art Kane

  People, Want, Waste

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• I suppose it's unfair, tricks of argument that leave wounds, but with this sort of thing that (C.S.) Lewis does, what I feel is a craftsman's joy at the sight of a superior performance.

  Joy Davidman

  Sight, Joy, Doe

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• The unique function of the nurse is to assist the individual, sick or well, in the performance of those activities contributing to health or its recovery (or to peaceful death) that he would perform unaided if he had the necessary strength, will or knowledge. And to do this in such a way as to help him gain independence as rapidly as possible.

  Virginia Henderson

  Recovery, Unique, Nurse

  Virginia Henderson (1991). “The Nature of Nursing: A Definition and Its Implications for Practice, Research, and Education : Reflections After 25 Years”, ABRAMS

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• The average man takes life as a trouble. He is in a chronic state of irritation at the whole performance. He does not learn to differentiate between troubles and difficulties, usually, until some real trouble bowls him over. He fusses about pin-pricks until a mule kicks him. Then he learns the difference.

  Herbert Newton Casson

  Life, Real, Learning

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• SIREN, n. One of several musical prodigies famous for a vain attempt to dissuade Odysseus from a life on the ocean wave. Figuratively, any lady of splendid promise, dissembled purpose and disappointing performance.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Life, Ocean, Musical

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.215, University of Georgia Press

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• Microsoft knows that reliable software is not cost effective. According to studies, 90% to 95% of all bugs are harmless. They're never discovered by users, and they don't affect performance. It's much cheaper to release buggy software and fix the 5% to 10% of bugs people find and complain about.

  Bruce Schneier

  Learning, People, Complaining

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• Girded with faith and the performance of good works, let us follow in his [Jesus] paths by the guidance of the Gospel.

  Benedict of Nursia

  Jesus, Catholic, Path

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