Performances Quotes - Page 35

• 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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• Our behaviour as an athlete is often determined by our previous experiences and how we dealt with those experiences. It is these experiences from past performances that can often shape what will happen in the future. It is for this reason that you learn and move on to be more mentally stronger as both an athlete and as a human!

  David Horne

  Moving, Athlete, Past

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• All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance.

  Samuel Johnson

  Perseverance, Art, Looks

  Samuel Johnson (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay”, p.207

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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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• There is no definitive list of the duties of a stage manager that is applicable to all theaters and staging environments. Regardless of specific duties, however, the stage manager is the individual who accepts responsibility for the smooth running of rehearsals and performances, on stage and backstage.

  Laurence Sterne

  Running, Responsibility, Theatre

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• An interesting difference between new and experienced stage managers is that the new stage manager thinks of running the show as the most difficult and most demanding part of the job, whereas the experienced stage manager thinks of it as the most relaxing part. Perhaps the reason is that experienced stage managers have built up work habits that make then so thoroughly prepared for the production phase that they [can] sit back during performances to watch that preparation pay off.

  Laurence Sterne

  Running, Jobs, Thinking

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• The cast, staff, and crew of a live theater work together toward a common goal: a good performance. Thus, theater is necessarily a group effort. However, it is never a group effort of vague fellow committee members, but of associated autocrats-a playwright, a producer, a director, a stage manager, designers, and, above all, actors. Each accommodates the others, and may overlap others in function when necessary. But each autocrat assumes distinct responsibilities and accepts them completely.

  Laurence Sterne

  Responsibility, Goal, Effort

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• The test of character is not persistence when you expect a light at the end of the tunnel. The true test is performance and persistence when you see no light coming.

  James Arthur Ray

  Character, Persistence, Tunnels

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• In the world of physics we watch a shadowgraph performance of the drama of familiar life. The shadow of my elbow rests on the shadow table as the shadow ink flows over the shadow paper. It is all symbolic, and as a symbol the physicist leaves it. ... The frank realisation that physical science is concerned with a world of shadows is one of the most significant of recent advances.

  Arthur Eddington

  Drama, Shadow, Ink

  "The Nature of the Physical World" by Arthur Eddington, (Introduction), 1928.

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• But alas! Like many another consummation devoutly to be wished, the actual performance was a disappointing one.

  Fred Reinfeld

  Chess, Disappointing, Humour

  Fred Reinfeld (2012). “The Immortal Games of Capablanca”, p.10, Courier Corporation

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• You must put your head into the lion's mouth if the performance is to be a success.

  Winston Churchill

  Ambition, Mouths, Lions

  Winston Churchill (2013). “London to Ladysmith & Ian Hamilton's March”, p.175, Courier Corporation

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• Better moods = better performance.

  James William Benson

  Entrepreneur, Mood

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• After conducting a concert in a small town, I once received the following note from a farmer who had attended the performance: "Dear Sir, I wish to inform you that the man who played the long thing you pull in and out only did so during the brief periods you were looking at him."

  Arturo Toscanini

  Music, Men, Long

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• In the simplest sense, the key to the performance of any traditional commercial bank ... is the profitability of the loans it makes.

  Robert G. Wilmers

  Keys, Commercial Banks, Banking

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• The Rising was mainly a piece of streat theatre designed by poets for dramatic effect. For better or worse, it became part of the founding myth which states need - but which they should move on from after a time. Major John MacBride, in a cameo performance in which he left Jacobs Mill, as he had entered it, immaculately dressed down to the white spats, told his colleagues Next time lads, don't shut yourself up behind four walls. It was good advice.

  Maurice Hayes

  Wall, Moving, White

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• Nothing must be left to chance in a magical performance. Everything conducive to enhancing the mystery of the illusions must be arranged with painstaking care and thought.

  David Devant

  Magic, Care, Chance

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• Magic is a performance, and a performance should have an honesty, a relevance and a resonance if it is to be offered to spectators without insulting them.

  Derren Brown

  Honesty, Should Have, Insulting

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• We make every effort to bring the newest and most innovative technology to our enthusiastic customers, drawing on the best in the industry. Our collaboration with Qualcomm Technologies on the Snapdragon 810-powered Mi Note Pro provides us the ability to deliver more performance, features and user capabilities to a mobile device than ever before.

  Lei Jun

  Technology, Drawing, Effort

  "Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 Processor Powers Premium Tier Mobile Experiences of 2015". www.qualcomm.com. February 2, 2015.

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• Let every man consider virtue as what devolves on himself. He may not yield the performance of it even to his teacher.

  Confucius

  Teacher, Men, Yield

  Confucius (2009). “The Confucian Analects, the Great Learning & the Doctrine of the Mean”, p.304, Cosimo, Inc.

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• One of the most striking and fundamental things about probability theory is that it leads to an understanding of the otherwise strange fact that events which are individually capricious and unpredictable can, when treated en masse, lead to very stable average performances.

  Warren Weaver

  Average, Probability Theory, Understanding

  Warren Weaver (2012). “Lady Luck: The Theory of Probability”, p.361, Courier Corporation

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• The part of the brain most affected by early stress is the prefrontal cortex, which is critical in self-regulatory activities of all kinds, both emotional and cognitive. As a result, children who grow up in stressful environments generally find it harder to concentrate, harder to sit still, harder to rebound from disappointments, and harder to follow directions. And that has a direct effect on their performance in school.

  Paul Tough

  Children, Growing Up, Disappointment

  "How Children Succeed". Book by Paul Tough, January 25, 2013.

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• As an atheist, I was predisposed to not enjoy the MAZE performance. I am happy to report the opposite

  Luke Jermay

  Atheist, Opposites, Mazes

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• What is a good performance? It lies in the hands and head of a performer... the shortest way between two people is not a straight line.

  Earle Brown

  Lying, Hands, Two

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• If we should tell ourselves the truth, all things being equal, President Jonathan will be re-elected with minimal stress, because of his sterling performance in the last six years.

  Orji Uzor Kalu

  Stress, Years, President

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• For a human character to reveal truly exceptional qualities, one must have the good fortune to be able to observe its performance over many years. If this performance is devoid of all egoism, if its guiding motive is unparalleled generosity, if it is absolutely certain that there is no thought of recompense and that, in addition, it has left its visible mark upon the earth, then there can be no mistake.

  Jean Giono

  Mistake, Character, Years

  Jean Giono, Michael McCurdy (2007). “The Man Who Planted Trees”, p.3, Chelsea Green Publishing

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