Performances Quotes - Page 34

• 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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• Sir: It gives me pleasure to report to you the fine bearing and soldierly conduct of Captain Wilson and his men whilst absent on special duty. Though their duties were more arduous than those of others, they were always prompt and ready for performance of all they were called upon to do. As a body they would be a credit to any organization, and I will be glad to be associated with them on duty at any time.

  John Taylor Wood

  Marine, Men, Organization

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• Of course, the age-old tradition that a star must appear even if he or she is practically dying is an excellent one, but it can be carried too far. I one played a performance of The Knight of the Burning Pestle with a temperature of 103 and gave sixteen members of the company mumps, thereby closing the play and throwing everybody out of work. There may be a moral lurking somewhere in this, but I cannot for the life of me discover what it is.

  Noel Coward

  Stars, Knights, Play

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• Leaders set high standards. Refuse to tolerate mediocrity or poor performance.

  Brian Tracy

  Leadership, High Standards, Mediocrity

  Brian Tracy (2008). “Effective Leadership”, p.9, Jaico Publishing House

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• White performances were always dull in comparison to the astonishing expressiveness of Black dancers. Behind the white person's inarticulate body were centuries of condemnation of dancing on religious grounds.

  Jamake Highwater

  Dance, Religious, White

  Jamake Highwater (1992). “Dance: Rituals of Experience”, p.61, Oxford University Press, USA

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• It is impossible to produce superior performance unless you do something very different.

  John Templeton

  Leadership, Different, Engagement

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• Performance leads to recognition. Recognition brings respect. Respect enhances power. Humility and grace in one's moments of power enhances dignity of an organisation.

  N. R. Narayana Murthy

  Inspiring, Humility, Grace

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• I started using film as part of live theatre performance - what used to be called performance art - and I became intrigued by film.

  Mike Figgis

  Art, Live Theatre, Film

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• One cannot help but be impressed by this music. The musicianship is top-notch, the performances unpredictable and full of surprises, and Eric Starr's writing is consistently inventive.

  Scott Yanow

  Writing, Eric, Helping

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• Cricket is a team game where individuals inspire each other to achieve performances which surpass what might otherwise be beyond them.

  Richard Lloyd

  Team, Games, Inspire

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• You have actors who begin at a certain young age and there's very little change in their technique and the depth of their performances; they're the same 30 years later.

  Alec Baldwin

  Change, Years, Age

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• There’s no card, business card, better than a compact disc for a composer. It doesn’t half impress people and they get a long way on it ... these composers they will get more performances, more commissions, more recognition just by having that disc

  Peter Maxwell Davies

  Long, People, Cards

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• Insomnia is an increasing problem. I've become swayed that sleep disorders are conceivably the most unnoticed, ignored, underrated reason of health as well as performance problems in the place of work.

  Sean Sullivan

  Sleep, Insomnia, Ignored

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• At first a golfer excuses a dismal performance by claiming bad lies. With experience, he covers up with better ones.

  Lee P. Brown

  Lying, Golf, Cover Ups

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• The great piano virtuoso Paderewski was once playing before an audience of the rich and the royal. After a brilliant performance, an elegant lady waxed ecstatic over the great artist. She said, "Ah Maestro, you are a genius!" Paderewski tartly replied, "Ah yes, madam, but before I was a genius I was a clod!" What he was saying was that his present acclaim was not handed to him on a silver platter. He, too, was once a little boy laboriously practicing his scales. And even at his peak, behind every brilliant performance there were countless hours of practice and preparation.

  Eric Butterworth

  Artist, Boys, Silver Platter

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• I imagined that it might be awkward to talk to your wife about her performance, so going into it I was a little nervous. But doing it was actually a wonderfully inspiring experience.

  Lasse Hallstrom

  Inspiring, Wife, Awkward

  "Soft-centred". Interview with David Eimer, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2001.

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• Before every performance, I think I am about to keel over.

  Brenda Blethyn

  Thinking, Keel

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• We gave up on the idea of trying to make the record a good representation of the live performance.

  John Cale

  Ideas, Trying, Records

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• My guess is many top athletes, distance runners included, use performance-enhancing drugs, enough so that the problem must be tackled.

  Bill Rodgers

  Distance, Athlete, Drug

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• And one of our points of continuing conversation with our trading partners is the urgency of their taking steps to remove barriers to their improved growth performance.

  John W. Snow

  Growth, Steps, Partners

  "Treasury Secretary Snow Optimistic on Economy". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 23, 2005.

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• Yes, there is plenty of hard work for them in addition to that which they do when they appear, smiling and happy, when the curtain goes up. Giving a performance is the least of their worries.

  Florenz Ziegfeld

  Smile, Work, Giving

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• Al Gore's performances could be a case study in abnormal-psychology classes.

  Rich Lowry

  Class, Psychology, Abnormal

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• I'm a huge fan of Jack Lemmon, he was someone who managed to tread that line between comedy and tragedy and sometimes give very big performances, but they were never over-demonstrative and they were never not based on a kind of real truthful human being.

  Steve Coogan

  Real, Giving, Tragedy

  "Exclusive Interview: Steve Coogan". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. February 19, 2009.

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• High achievers dwell on what they do well and spend very little time evaluating themselves and their performances.

  John Eliot

  Achievement, Littles, Wells

  John Eliot, PhD (2015). “Overachievement: The Science of Working Less to Accomplish More”, p.12, Diversion Books

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• I am a believer in the adage - performance leads to recognition, recognition leads to respect and respect leads to power.

  N. R. Narayana Murthy

  Achievement, Recognition, Adages

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