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I go to the theatre expecting to have a good time. I want each play and performance to take me somewhere. Naturally, this doesn't always happen.
Presidents and cabinet officials could send a strong message of accountability if they held senior appointees responsible for their performance.
Brock Lesnar and I are as different as any two people can be. What drew us together was the love of the actual performance aspect of what we do.
My parents always wanted me to know why eating healthfully was important to overall performance, probably to drown out my whining for junk food.
My prayer is improvised - though like some standard jazz performance, the improv happens within pretty strict parameters - and asks for nothing.
I try to keep myself on an even keel by trying to be as critical of myself as I am of other people. I try to separate my performance from myself.
In most cases, my favorite Jethro Tull songs will be determined by how I feel about them as live performance songs, not by the recorded identity.
It is enough that we set out to mold the motley stuff of life into some form of our own choosing; when we do, the performance is itself the wage.
What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.
I started taking part in college competitions... my first-ever performance with a band was in McDonald's, and I got Rs 500. I still have the note.
Federal employees are not rewarded for performance or excellence or results but, rather, for showing up, and often times, they don't even do that.
There are two or three performances in your life that are absolutely on, where all the planets are lined up for you and you feel you're invincible.
A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.
Gritty people train at the edge of their comfort zone. They zero in on one narrow aspect of their performance and set a stretch goal to improve it.
In a live performance, it's a collaboration with the audience; you ride the ebb and flow of the crowd's energy. On television, you don't have that.
Any designer believes his gun is the best, and when its test performance is a bit less impressive compared to others, he feels bitterness and envy.
For me, 'Mary Magdalene' is the most beautiful film I've shot with the performances and the script and the actors and ensemble. But not one saw it.
As a goalkeeper, you want to be the best, but you can only get better by playing games, making saves, and putting in man-of-the-match performances.
Ethanol is a premier, high performance fuel. It has tremendous environmental benefits and is a key component to energy independence for our country.
I got my big break at the Royal Variety Performance in 2006 and returned in 2008, but now to host it is such an honour and I'm unbelievably excited.
Patsy Ferran in Tennessee Williams' 'Summer and Smoke'-I thought that was just one of the most phenomenal performances I've seen from a young woman.
When recordings replaced concerts as the dominant mode of hearing music, our conception of the nature of performance and of music itself was altered.
I don't think of Storefront Hitchcock or Stop Making Sense as documentaries, I think of them more as performance films.
The only thing you owe the public is a good performance.
You can do 'Hamlet' while performing cartwheels... as long as the audience sees your eyes - you can make the performance real.
All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.
I don't think my body's gonna go to hell if I train for performance. It might change a little and adapt, but I like being strong.
Performance has to be mainstream art. This is what I'm fighting for.
We all tried rapping, we all tried singing, we all tried different kinds of styles and performances, so we naturally found our perfect spot.
Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away.
You have to give your best as you can't guarantee the success of your film, but you can always give a good performance.
I could write a book describing what differentiates the high performance person from all the rest! Hell, I could write volumes!
The Steve Allen Sunday night show had the right to two options after my first performance.
So I view acting as a thoroughly involved performance with the maximum of sincerity and devotion.
There is a disconnect between the performance in stock market and the performance in many companies.
If I give up my career as a skater simply because I fear I won't show my best performance, I would be really sorry later in life.
I hope that we're creating something that fans will look forward to for every new performance.
I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone.
I think I avoid stepping into sentimentality by trying to be as truthful as possible with performances.
If all of us would require the same level of performance from ourselves as we expect from government, this city will forever be the city that works.
Nobody can give a good performance unless the authors and composers have written a good part, a fact which is often overlooked.
I've always liked artists like Chris Burden, who would take performances, put them in galleries, and then do things that were on the edge.
Top athletes understand that to play at their best, they must alternate periods of intense performance with periods of strategic renewal.
A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.
I believe so much in the power of performance I don't want to convince people. I want them to experience it and come away convinced on their own.
It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.
My time is much too precious to be wasted on people who merely want to talk about being a high performance person and can't or won't take action!
The most memorable performance was my appearance in concert in Carnegie Hall. The first standup to do so.
I believe we can accelerate our acumen, performance and success by leveraging our associations and spending time with people better than us.
Performance art is the ultimate in creativity. Since it has so many possibilities at creativity, it's essence tends to become creativity.