Performances Quotes - Page 37

• I don't think of Storefront Hitchcock or Stop Making Sense as documentaries, I think of them more as performance films.

  Jonathan Demme

  Thinking, Documentaries, Film

  Interview with Adrian Wootton, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 1998.

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• Nothing beats a live performance. Nothing.

  Jonathan Demme

  Beats, Live Performance

  "Jonathan Demme On Future Projects ‘Old Fires,’ ‘Zeitoun’ And ‘This House We Live In’" by Jessica Kiang, www.indiewire.com. December 29, 2012.

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• I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the very performances, to the number of which they are themselves adding?joining with their greatest enemies in bestowing the harshest epithets on such works, and scarcely ever permitting them to be read by their own heroine, who, if she accidentally take up a novel, is sure to turn over its insipid leaves with disgust.

  Jane Austen

  Numbers, Enemy, Joining

  Jane Austen (2005). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.1089, Wordsworth Editions

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• Nothing we formulate or do can qualify us for access to God. Only grace can do that- based not on our performance but on the saving work of Christ.

  Timothy Keller

  Grace, Saving, Christ

  Timothy Keller (2014). “Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God”, p.67, Penguin

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• You have to always physicalize, when you do animation recording. Otherwise, you won't get the performance right.

  Hank Azaria

  Animation

  "Elijah Wood, Robin Williams, Hank Azaria and Common Talk HAPPY FEET TWO". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 15, 2011.

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• Waiting to be happy limits our brain's potential for success, whereas cultivating positive brains makes us more motivated, efficient, resilient, creative, and productive, which drives performance upward.

  Shawn Achor

  Creative, Waiting, Brain

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• Past experience with fiscal austerity at home and overseas strongly suggests that it is best for the economy's long-run performance to restrain government spending rather than raise taxes.

  Mark Zandi

  Running, Home, Past

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• Much more than our other needs and endeavors, it is sexuality that puts us on an even footing with our kind: the more we practice it, the more we become like everyone else: it is in the performance of a reputedly bestial function that we prove our status as citizens: nothing is more public than the sexual act.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Sex, Practice, Needs

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• Psychologists tell us we think 50,000 thoughts a day...between 1,000
  and 5,000 thoughts in a single hour. Many of those thoughts are about
  ourselves and about our performance, about our lovability, our capability
  and our significance. So the key is to control those thoughts, making
  certain they're always positive.

  Jack Canfield

  Thinking, Keys, Hours

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• While an author is yet living, we estimate his powers by his worst performance; and when he is dead, we rate him by his best.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Worst, Rate

  The Plays of William Shakespeare preface (1765)

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• The more skillful the performance of false cheer, the more pleasing the effect is upon one's public and on that private audience to whom one owes even more.

  Judith Martin

  Cheer, Deception, Audience

  Judith Martin (1982). “Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior”, Scribner

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• Sport doesn't know barriers, really. You are judged on your performance... how far you can jump, how fast you can run, how well you can hit a tennis ball.

  Martina Navratilova

  Sports, Running, Tennis

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• We will not achieve high performance in education if we replace teachers with machines or turn teachers into machines.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Teacher, Learning

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• High performance leaders capitalize on crises to galvanize the motivation and actions of people in the organization.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Motivation, Learning

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• High performance leaders create an inspiring future by connecting with a classic and honorable past.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Learning, Past

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• High performance leaders know they have to breathe out when they are coming up for air.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Learning, Air

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• That action is not warrantable which either fears to ask the divine blessing on its performance, or having succeeded, does not come with thanksgiving to God for its success.

  Francis Quarles

  Blessing, Doe, Action

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• I have never taken performance-enhancing drugs whether banned or unbanned, on or off the list, at any time. In fact, I underwent hundreds of tests during my career and all were negative.

  Stephen Roche

  Taken, Careers, Drug

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• I'm very excited about the resurgence of vinyl which seems to parallel a growing interest in live performance.

  Saul Williams

  Growing, Excited, Vinyl

  "Infecting Nike, Initiating Obama: An Interview With Saul Williams". Interview with Scott Thill, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 28, 2008.

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• I am excited to be part of Generation UCAN. I believe this product, its team and the company's vision will change the face of sports nutrition. Since I've been using Generation UCAN for my workouts, I've noticed improvements in both my performance and metabolic state. I recommend all runners try it to experience the benefits firsthand.

  Meb Keflezighi

  Sports, Workout, Team

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• Inside was the second LP album of a comedian's performance before an audience.

  Shelley Berman

  Comedian, Albums, Audience

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• Talent (a natural way of thinking, feeling, or behaving) × Investment (time spent practicing, developing your skills, and building your knowledge base) = Strength (the ability to consistently provide near-perfect performance)

  Tom Rath

  Thinking, Skills, Perfect

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• As an economy measures performance in terms of the creation of money, people become a major source of inefficiency.

  David Korten

  People, Creation, Economy

  David C. Korten (1995). “When Corporations Rule the World”, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• The apex of perfection in equestrian art is not an exhibition of a great deal of different airs and movements by the same horse, but rather the conservation of the horse's enjoyment, suppleness and finesse during the performance, which calls for comparison with the finest ballet, or performance of an orchestra, or seeing a play by Racine, so moving is the sight of perfectly unisoned movements.

  Nuno Oliveira

  Horse, Art, Moving

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• But when we reduce sex to a function, we also invoke the idea of dysfunction. We are no longer talking about the art of sex; rather, we are talking about the mechanics of sex. Science has replaced religion as the authority; and science is a more formidable arbiter. Medicine knows how to scare even those who scoff at religion. Compared with a diagnosis, what's a mere sin? We used to moralize; today we normalize, and performance anxiety is the secular version of our old religious guilt.

  Esther Perel

  Religious, Art, Sex

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