Performing Quotes

• I just love the thrill of performing on stage. I believe that singing is something I was put here to do.

  Lucy Hale

  Believe, Singing, Thrill

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.

  Simone Weil

  Inspirational, Motivational, Respect

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• The terror of performing never goes away. Instead, you get very, very comfortable being terrified.

  Eric Whitacre

  Feelings, Going Away, Composer

  Twitter post from May 20, 2016

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• I love performing. It's a phenomenal getaway. If you want to really let out everything you feel, that's the time to do it.

  Michael Jackson

  Want, Getaways, Phenomenal

  FaceBook post by Michael Jackson from May 17, 2016

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• We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

  Aristotle

  Courage, Philosophical, Brave

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• Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Business

  Twitter post from Jul 20, 2015

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• Wherever you are or whatever your job, don't be confused or diverted by false priorities. We have only one mission to perform-that is to fight and win. And, we must do it better than anyone else in the world.

  Leslie E. Brown

  Inspirational, Jobs, Confused

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• Regardless of what you play, the biggest thing is keeping the feel going.

  Wes Montgomery

  Music, Play, African American

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• In all honesty, if somebody asked me the secret of auditioning for Americans, I don't know. Often, I do what's called self-taping for America. I go over there quite a lot to sit in a room and do stuff in front of people. You feel like a performing monkey. It's bizarre.

  David Wenham

  Honesty, Self, America

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

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• When I perform, I don’t think about the haters, the Internet trolls, or anyone else. I care about giving the person in front of me something they won’t forget. And that’s why I bring the cake and raft out.

  Steve Aoki

  Hater, Thinking, Cake

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• Performing is an experience, for me, that is as humbling as it is energizing.

  Charley Pride

  Energizing, Humbling

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• The rewards are going to come, but my happiness is just loving the sport and having fun performing.

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee

  Sports, Fun, Athlete

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• The feeling you get from playing to a good audience is hard to describe without sounding as though you are talking silly. But reaction is important. You might feel in yourself that you're doing it ok but it's when you get the live reaction that you know you're doing it right.

  Tony Iommi

  Silly, Talking, Feelings

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• I tend to stay up late, not because I'm partying but because it's the only time of the day when I'm alone and don't have to be on, performing.

  Jim Carrey

  Party, Late, Only Time

  "Work experience: The stars before they were famous" by Lucy Barrick, www.theguardian.com. April 3, 2000.

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• I loved performing; I was always trying to impress my siblings by being a clown. I think that came from being the runt of the litter.

  Rose Byrne

  Sibling, Thinking, Always Trying

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• The real self of an artiste lies in art, so when an artiste performs, all the pain, trauma and tension get released through art, be it dancing, painting, singing, writing or even martial arts.

  Mrinalini Sarabhai

  Dance, Art, Pain

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• Every summer, around late July and into August, I find myself in Europe, performing at any festival that will have me.

  Henry Rollins

  Summer, July, August

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• I have a love-hate relationship with performing.

  Sarah Brightman

  Art, Hate, Love Hate

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• True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Life, Courage, Memorial Day

  "Maxims". Book by Francois de La Rochefoucauld, 1665.

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• God’s grace does not come to people who morally outperform others, but to those who admit their failure to perform and who acknowledge their need for a Savior.

  Timothy Keller

  Christian, Religious, People

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.38, Penguin

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• Typographical design should perform optically what the speaker creates through voice and gesture of his thoughts.

  El Lissitzky

  Voice, Design, Gestures

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• The techniques should not be practised simply so they can be performed in the kata. Since karate is a fighting art each technique and movement has its own meaning. The karateka must consider their meaning, how and why they are effective, and practise accordingly

  Shigeru Egami

  Art, Exercise, Fighting

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• The success of Yoga does not lie in the ability to perform postures but in how it positively changes the way we live our life and our relationships.

  T. K. V. Desikachar

  Relationship, Positive, Life Changing

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• Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best.

  Michael Johnson

  Life, Motivational, Sports

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• The only unnatural sex act is that which you cannot perform.

  Alfred Kinsey

  Sex, Making Love, Action

  Quoted in Barbara Rowes, The Book of Quotes (1979)

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