Performing Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• We become just by the practice of just actions, self-controlled by exercising self-control, and courageous by performing acts of courage.

  Aristotle

  Ambition, Exercise, Self

  Aristotle (1962). “Nicomachean Ethics”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• The end of knowledge is power ... the scope of all speculation is the performing of some action or thing to be done.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Knowledge, Science, Power

  Thomas Hobbes, Thucydides, Homer (1839). “The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury”, p.7

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• Comedy is difficult, especially slapstick. The trick is to have fun while you are performing it.

  Maureen O'Hara

  Fun, Comedy, Slapstick

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• Being able to improvise is the basis for creating all characters and situations, for everything to do with performing, really. And it's good therapy as well.

  Chris Kattan

  Character, Creating, Able

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• 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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• As long as you are performing prayer, you are knocking at the door of Allah, and whoever is knocking at the door of Allah, Allah will open it for him.

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Religious, Prayer, Islamic

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• Because we are interested in promoting wellness, we will integrate medicine with performing arts, arts and crafts, agriculture, recreation, nature, and social service.

  Patch Adams

  Art, Cancer, Health

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• If you see me performing, you're going, that guy is simply the most extroverted guy I've ever seen. But if you've seen me very often on a daily basis and all the while growing up, I was very, very introverted. Very introverted. So I have sort of the extremes of both of those characteristics.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Growing Up, Guy, Characteristics

  Source: www.npr.org

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• There are definitely people who are stuck in the '60s and there are definitely people who think I am and it's just not true. I was performing for a long time before the '60s and I'll be doing exciting interesting things for along time to come.

  Petula Clark

  Thinking, Long, People

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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 you're coming up with your philosophy and approach to performing comedy, you take special note of the things you disagree with as much as the things you agree with.

  Andy Daly

  Philosophy, Special, Comedy

  "A Real Person Who Has Real Thoughts and Feelings". Interview with Stephanie Palumbo, logger.believermag.com. February 29, 2016.

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• I loved writing and performing, but the idea of doing it for a living seemed so remote. But I eventually let it devolve to the point where it was the only thing I could do.

  Harold Ramis

  Writing, Ideas

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• I was about 17 or 18 when I first started performing in public. I had a teacher when I was a freshman in college and she came up to me afterwards and said she had been crying while I had been singing, and it really shocked me.

  Antony Hegarty

  Teacher, College, Singing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think because I am a physical person, and because my way of expressing and performing and storytelling or explaining has always been with my body, if I can combine the two I find it really liberating.

  Zoe Bell

  Thinking, Two, Body

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• To perform at the Cardiff Millennium Centre was amazing in itself - the theatre is an incredible venue and it was great to be performing so close to home. For me the best experience was in Glasgow, where I got to play Dee Dee for two weeks! The audience sang along to every song with such enthusiasm you actually couldn't hear yourself singing! That was incredible!

  Francesca Jackson

  Song, Home, Play

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I have performed many puppet and non-puppet characters in my career. Some I miss, some I do not. But when I miss them, I only miss performing them. The actual sweatiness of the fur and foam and fleece? Not so much.

  Stephanie D'Abruzzo

  Character, Careers, Missing

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I love performing in a good straight play as well and I'm a crossover actor, I crossover from plays to musicals, musicals to plays. This is very difficult for performers.

  Erica Schroeder

  Play, Actors, Difficult

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• It is time of individualities now. Good performing skills are not enough now, you may sing better or worse - tons of good singers are waiting outside - it doesn't matter. You have to be different!

  Verka Serduchka

  Skills, Waiting, Individuality

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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• I was a very bad musician. I was the world's worst guitar player, so when I was performing solo with a guitar, I had to keep things very simple.

  Loren Mazzacane Connors

  Simple, Player, Guitar

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• For a long time in the 1970s, I was experimenting to build musical instruments and use them. I did a lot of ethnic music studies and other things, like electronic music. Making homemade musical instruments and performing was my major activity from the time.

  Yoshi Wada

  Long, Musical, Use

  Source: pitchfork.com

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