Performances Quotes - Page 38

• Through performance, I found the possibility of establishing a dialogue with the audience through an exchange of energy, which tended to transform the energy itself. I could not produce a single work without the presence of the audience, because the audience gave me the energy to be able, through a specific action, to assimilate it and return it, to create a genuine field of energy.

  Marina Abramovic

  Energy, Able, Fields

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• There's so much to learn about acting and performance in general... I mean, acting is a very complex art, and there are a lot more theories and methods and techniques to it than I think anybody would think.

  Haley Joel Osment

  Art, Mean, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have a chef who makes sure that I'm getting the right amounts of carbs, proteins and fats throughout the day to keep me at my max performance level.

  Barry Bonds

  Sports, Ties, Max

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

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• People are my most important asset. Faith in the supreme being, trust, credibility and performance are the things that have brought me to the top.

  Don King

  People, Boxing, Important

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• Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folkways and superstition, and of cooperation for force. It means the substitution of responsibility for obedience to rank, and of authority of performance for the authority of rank.

  Peter Drucker

  Leadership, Knowledge, Mean

  Peter Drucker (2013). “People and Performance”, p.78, Routledge

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• You must get good at one of two things; planting in the spring or begging in the fall.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Motivational, Spring

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Dec 28, 2011

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• And it occurred to me that in this new millennial life of instant and ubiquitous connection, you don't in fact communicate so much as leave messages for one another, these odd improvisational performances, often sorry bits and samplings of ourselves that can't help but seem out of context. And then when you do finally reach someone, everyone's so out of practice or too hopeful or else embittered that you wonder if it would be better not to attempt contact at all.

  Chang-Rae Lee

  Sorry, Practice, Hopeful

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• The (photographic) negative is the equivalent of the composers score and the print is the equivalent of the conductors performance.

  Ansel Adams

  Negative, Score, Composer

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• There was no such person as Marilyn Monroe. Marilyn Monroe was an invention of hers. A genius invention that she created, like an author creates a character. She understood photography, and she also understood what makes a great photograph. She related to it as if she were giving a performance. She gave more to the still camera than any actress-any woman- I've ever photographed.

  Richard Avedon

  Photography, Character, Giving

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• I appear, my fellow-citizens, in your presence and in that of Heaven to bind myself by the solemnities of religious obligation to the faithful performance of the duties allotted to me in the station to which I have been called.

  John Quincy Adams

  Religious, Heaven, Faithful

  John Quincy Adams, Kenneth V. Jones, United States. President (1825-1829 : Adams) (1970). “John Quincy Adams, 1767-1848; chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns

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• Good movies make you care, make you believe in possibilities again. If somewhere in the Hollywood-entertainment world someone has managed to break through with something that speaks to you, then it isn’t all corruption. The movie doesn’t have to be great; it can be stupid and empty and you can still have the joy of a good performance, or the joy in just a good line. An actor’s scowl, a small subversive gesture, a dirty remark that someone tosses off with a mock-innocent face, and the world makes a little bit of sense.

  Pauline Kael

  Stupid, Believe, Dirty

  Pauline Kael (1994). “For keeps”, E P Dutton

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• I belong to that generation who, as students, had before their eyes, and were limited by, a horizon consisting of Marxism, phenomenology and existentialism. For me the break was first Beckett's Waiting for Godot, a breathtaking performance.

  Michel Foucault

  Eye, Waiting, Generations

  Michel Foucault (2000). “Death and the Labyrinth: The World of Raymond Roussel”, p.176, A&C Black

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• The emotional elevation of the film is due in no small measure to the extraordinarily engaging performances of Anne Bancroft as the wife-mother-mistress, Dustin Hoffman as the lumbering Lancelot, and Katherine Ross as his fair Elaine.

  Andrew Sarris

  Mother, Emotional, Wife

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• The reason dance has held such an ageless magic for the world is that it has been the symbol of the performance of living.

  Martha Graham

  Magic, World, Reason

  Martha Graham (1991). “Blood memory”, Doubleday

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• I think what we've had here is a little social concern in the NFL. The media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well. There is a little hope invested in McNabb, and he got a lot of credit for the performance of this team that he didn't deserve. The defense carried this team.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Team, Thinking, Media

  "Limbaugh resigns from NFL show". www.espn.com. October 2, 2003.

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• Do not waste a minute - not a second - in trying to demonstrate to others the merits of your performance. If your work does not vindicate itself, you cannot vindicate it.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Work, Trying, Waste

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1871). “Atlantic Essays”, p.84

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• The trouble with institutional investors is that their performance is usually measured relative to their peer group and not by an absolute yardstick. This makes them trend followers by definition.

  George Soros

  Groups, Peers, Followers

  George Soros, Byron Wien, Krisztina Koenen (1995). “Soros on Soros: Staying Ahead of the Curve”, p.312, John Wiley & Sons

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• You can only elevate individual performance by elevating that of the entire system.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Individual, Project Management, Process

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• Values hold the team together, provide stability for the team to grow upon, measure the team's performance, give direction and guidance and attract like-minded people.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Teamwork, Growing Up

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• Ever judge of men by their professions. For though the bright moment of promising is but a moment, and cannot be prolonged, yet if sincere in its moment's extravagant goodness, why, trust it, and know the man by it, I say,- not by his performance; which is half the world's work, interfere as the world needs must with its accidents and circumstances: the profession was purely the man's own. I judge people by what they might be,- not are, nor will be.

  Robert Browning

  Men, Judging, People

  Robert Browning (1872). “A soul's tragedy. Luria. Christmas-eve and Easter-day. Men and women”, p.32

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• Fear is the strongest driving-force in competition. Not fear of one's opponent, but of the skill and high standard which he represents; fear, too, of not acquitting oneself well. In the achievement of greater performances, of beating formidable rivals, the athlete defeats fear and conquers himself.

  Franz Stampfl

  Motivational, Running, Athlete

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• Our performance during this World Cup has not been enough to progress further and both myself and all the players regret that and are hurt more than people realise.

  David Beckham

  Hurt, Regret, Player

  "Terry in line as Beckham hands in his armband" by Daniel Taylor, www.theguardian.com. July 2, 2006.

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• Recently I prayed, "Lord, I want to know your peace at all costs. I won't listen to the devil's lies any longer. I know my salvation is not in my performance. No, Jesus, you alone plead my case. I rest in what you've done for me." Can you say the same by faith?

  David Wilkerson

  Christian, Jesus, Lying

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• Level 5 leaders are differentiated from other levels of leaders in that they have a wonderful blend of personal humility combined with extraordinary professional will. Understand that they are very ambitious; but their ambition, first and foremost, is for the company's success. They realize that the most important step they must make to become a Level 5 leader is to subjugate their ego to the company's performance. When asked for interviews, these leaders will agree only if it's about the company and not about them.

  James C. Collins

  Leadership, Business, Humility

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• Mentoring is all about people - it's about caring, about relationships and sensitivity. As it becomes increasingly in vogue it is becoming too formulated - concerned with performance metrics, critical success factors, investment and spending. It'll be a disaster.

  Rene Carayol

  Education, Caring, People

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