Performing Quotes - Page 16

• If the actions used in performing sleights are visible or even suspected by the onlooker, the whole illusion of magic is destroyed.

  Jean Hugard

  Magic, Action, Illusion

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• It's not brave to do something that doesn't scare you. Performing in sex scenes that I direct, exposing a flash of my weird puffy nipple, those things don't fall into my zone of terror.

  Lena Dunham

  Sex, Fall, Brave

  Lena Dunham (2014). “Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"”, p.113, Random House

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• You are not so good a Christian when you are neglecting a plain duty as when you are performing it. And joining the church is a plain duty for all who mean to be Christians.

  Washington Gladden

  Christian, Mean, Church

  Washington Gladden (1876). “Being a Christian: what it Means and how to Begin”

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• That we need only to recognize GOD intimately present with us, to address ourselves to Him every moment, that we may beg His assistance for knowing His will in things doubtful, and for rightly performing those which we plainly see He requires of us, offering them to Him before we do them, and giving Him thanks when we have done.

  Brother Lawrence

  Offering, Knowing, Giving

  Brother Lawrence (1967). “The Practice of the Presence of God”, p.12, Baker Books

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• PERFORMING TRIBUTE 9/11 shows the heroism of people who have chosen to respond to devastation and hatred with quiet determination and a belief that they can and will make the world a better place.

  Michael Arad

  Determination, People, Hatred

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• I do, have done and always will believe that I am very capable of performing and thriving at any level of the sport.

  Jonny Wilkinson

  Sports, Believe, Done

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• I love Mix Tape. It combines three great elements - magic, music and a natural way of performing. I know that every time you perform Mix Tape you will feel like you're presenting someone with a very special gift. I've never come across a routine so natural and so strong. Use this and you will be the wonder worker they talk about long after you have left.

  Luke Jermay

  Strong, Long, Magic

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• I hated the ballet, but I liked performing. I did 20 shows, and I couldn't get the smile off my face.

  Ansel Elgort

  Ballet, Faces, Hated

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• A lot of performing instincts are involved in the business of direction, but so is analysis and having a sense of literature.

  Trevor Nunn

  Hygiene, Analysis, Literature

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• It was always acting, singing and dancing that I loved. Not the horror of performing on the piano in front of an assembled audience of quiet people. I'd forget the piece just before I went out to do the concerto, the panic was too great . This was not anything that gave me pleasure. This was fulfilling somebody else's dream.

  Linda Lavin

  Dream, Quiet People, Piano

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• They do the soaps differently in Mexico. You just have to know the storyline and not memorize the lines. There would be someone feeding you lines while you were performing.

  Erik Estrada

  Would Be, Mexico, Lines

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• Science is not about making predictions or performing experiments. Science is about explaining.

  Bill Gaede

  Predictions, Explaining, Experiments

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• What distinguishes exemplary boards is that they are robust, effective social systems . . .The highest performing companies have extremely contentious boards that regard dissent as an obligation and that treat no subject as undiscussable.

  Jeffrey Sonnenfeld

  Boards, Social, Robust

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• Effectiveness is doing the things that get you closer to your goals. Efficiency is performing a given task (whether important or not) in the most economical manner possible. Being efficient without regard to effectiveness is the default mode of the universe.

  Tim Ferriss

  Effectiveness, Goal, Important

  "The 4-Hour Workweek". Book by Tim Ferriss, 2007.

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• Songwriting is an art unto itself, not to be confused with performing.

  Jo Stafford

  Art, Confused, Songwriting

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• Night after night, through years of performing and directing, I've stood in awe of the audience, of its capacity for response. As if by magic, masks fall away, faces become vulnerable, receptive. Filmgoers do not defend their emotions, rather they open to the storyteller in ways even their lovers never know, welcoming laughter, tears, terror, rage, compassion, passion, love, hate--the ritual often exhausts them.

  Robert McKee

  Laughter, Hate, Fall

  Robert McKee (2010). “Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• I love intimacy, always, of performing.

  Julio Iglesias

  Intimacy

  "As always, Julio Iglesias speaks the language... of love". Interview with John Katsilometes, lasvegassun.com. January 13, 2011.

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• How does one magnify a calling? Simply by performing the service that pertains to it.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Doe, Calling

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• High performing organizations have cultures of creativity and risk. They encourage workers to innovate and play.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Learning, Creativity

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• I started out as a dancer as a kid; I've been dancing since I was 4. So performing was always part of what I was. I don't know if it I enjoyed the response I got from people or if I liked having an audience, but there's something in me that wanted to perform.

  Tatiana Maslany

  Kids, People, Dancing

  "Q&A with ‘Orphan Black’ Star Tatiana Maslany". BBC America Interview, www.bbcamerica.com. April 8, 2013.

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• After all, I'm religious, and if my mother knew I was performing in the nude, she would have had a heart attack.

  Blaze Starr

  Mother, Religious, Heart

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• Here lies the tremendous mystery - that God should be all-powerful, yet refuse to coerce. He summons us to cooperation. We are honored in being given the opportunity to participate in his good deeds. Remember how He asked for help in performing his miracles: Fill the water pots, stretch out your hand, distribute the loaves.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Powerful, Lying, Opportunity

  Elisabeth Elliot (1987). “A Lamp for My Feet: The Bible's Light for Daily Living”, Vine Books

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• Therefore, doing the Stations of the Cross was still more laborious than consoling, and required a sacrifice. It was much the same with all my devotions. They did not come easily or spontaneously, and they very seldom brought with them any strong sensible satisfaction. Nevertheless the work of performing them ended in a profound and fortifying peace: a peace that was scarcely perceptible, but which deepened and which, as my passions subsided, became more and more real, more and more sure, and finally stayed with me permanently.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Strong, Real

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• The gentlest thing in the world overcomes the hardest thing in the world. That which has no substance enters where there is no space. This shows the value of non-action. Teaching without words, performing without actions: that is the Master's way.

  Laozi

  Teaching, Space, Overcoming

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• I came back to performing with a different attitude about performing and myself. I wasn't expecting perfection any more, just hoping for an occasional inspiration.

  Neil Diamond

  Attitude, Inspiration, Perfection

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