Performers Quotes - Page 23

• Typical pay increases are not enough to motivate employees, but they are enough to irritate them. … Even when companies create seemingly significant pay differentiation between low and high performers, the actual cash increase is insufficient to sustain performance – or it drives the wrong behaviors. … Effective management is a system, not a pay plan. The mistake is that companies try to solve all their problems with pay.

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  Mistake, Trying, Typical

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• It would be difficult to have any unfulfilled ambitions because I don't have any ambitions. I've never been that kind of performer.

  John Hurt

  Ambition, Would Be, Kind

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2000.

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• One piece of advice that I would give to any young athlete or performer is remember to thank your mom.

  Meryl Davis

  Mom, Athlete, Giving

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• After 10 years TNA talent still have an inferiority complex. If you don't think that you work for the BEST COMPANY EVER then nobody else will! As a performer you hav to act and project that where you work is the pinnacle of competition! If not then the whole place just seems second rate.

  Chris Jericho

  Thinking, Wwe, Years

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• A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Responsibility, Successful, Social

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• Being a broadcaster encompasses the business of sport, which is my life today, and it encompasses the skills of being a history student, and the ability of being a performer.

  Bill Walton

  Sports, Skills, Today

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• I love Nelly. He's such a great performer. He's so hyper and so am I.

  Fergie

  Hyper

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• If I belong to a tradition it is a tradition that makes the masterpiece tell the performer what he should do and not the performer telling the piece what it should be like, or the composer what he ought to have composed.

  Alfred Brendel

  Pieces, Tradition, Should

  "Alfred Brendel, A Personal 75th Birthday Selection" by Anthony Holden, www.theguardian.com. January 7, 2006.

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• Why does the world need a Piano Day? For many reasons. But mostly, because it doesn't hurt to celebrate the piano and everything around it: performers, composers, piano builders, tuners, movers and most important, the listener.

  Nils Frahm

  Hurt, Piano, Important

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• The expertise displayed by each musician is jaw-dropping and it's matched by their sensitivity and taste... Lizzy Hoyt displays equal mastery of the fiddle, harp and guitar, complemented by an otherworldly voice. To top it off, she comes across as a truly natural and relaxed, people loving performer.

  Jim Sinclair

  Guitar, Voice, People

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• The reason I'm in this business, I assume all performers are -- it's Look at me, Ma! It's acceptance, you know -- Look at me, Ma, look at me, Ma, look at me, Ma. And if your mother watches, you'll show off till you're exhausted; but if your mother goes, Ptshew!

  Lenny Bruce

  Mother, Acceptance, Entertainment

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• All of them - my father, mother, step-mother, and grandmother - were all wonderful actors and performers and they are an inspiration to me, both in their craft and in their humanity.

  James Cromwell

  Mother, Father, Inspiration

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• I am a writer - that is what I am before being a performer or musician. I love waking up in the morning and then going to sleep that night with something that did not exist.

  Brian McKnight

  Morning, Sleep, Night

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• Right now, my career is in three directions: as a performer, as an arranger, as an author - and I don't give any one of them true precedent, or true top marks, as opposed to the other two.

  Mel Torme

  Careers, Two, Giving

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• The basic success of the conga came from ...that basic principle of African music and dance: everybody participates. The conga eradicated the distinction between performer and audience, broke down the wall of the proscenium.

  Ned Sublette

  Wall, Principles, African Music

  Ned Sublette (2007). “Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo”, p.409, Chicago Review Press

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• It is not a mystical thing, however, it is obvious and practical and I think that what the performer does is to try to get to that point with every choice you make from the phrasing in a tune to the choice of tunes.

  Leo Kottke

  Thinking, Choices, Trying

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• Streets crowded with people strolling, or sitting at outdoor cafes. And always, talking, gesturing, singing, laughing. I liked Rome immediately.Everybody was a performer.

  Kirk Douglas

  Funny, Humorous, Italian

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• Shawn Michaels is quite simply the greatest performer in WWE history.

  Chris Jericho

  Wwe, Shawn Michaels

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• Performance for another in no way signals the inferiority of the performer to the one for whom the performance is intended.

  Sandra Bartky

  Inferiority, Way, Signals

  Sandra Lee Bartky (1990). “Femininity and Domination: Studies in the Phenomenology of Oppression”, p.72, Routledge

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• When I appear onstage, that's my departure from Momhood - and I transform into Natalie MacMaster: the entertainer, the fiddler, the performer.

  Natalie MacMaster

  Departure, Entertainers, Fiddlers

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• When you only hang out with performers, you start to feel like movies and TV and comedy is everything. Especially being in LA, where it feels like you walk into a coffee shop and you see 15 laptops with screenplays being written.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Coffee, Laptops, Tvs

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• [Touring] is not necessarily a priority. It's just a part of who I am as a performer. That's obviously why I'm doing it; why I'm in this business is part of me has to perform.

  Van Morrison

  Who I Am, Priorities, Touring

  Source: ritchieyorke.com

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• I'm a singer. I'm a dancer. I'm a performer. I'm an actress. That's what I'm supposed to be doing. It makes me a better parent, a better person. I think I can just handle more than the average bear, you know?

  Jennifer Lopez

  Mother, Thinking, Average

  "Jennifer Lopez: February 2013 Cover" by Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. January 3, 2013.

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• If you look at the world-class performers at the top of the game, their numbers are just exceptional and that is the level he is at.

  Brendan Rodgers

  Football, Games, Class

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• When I started out in this business, I was a performer before I was a songwriter, I was a performer before I was recording. Performing is the roots. That's where it all came from. You didn't start out doing it because you wanted to make an album.

  Van Morrison

  Roots, Albums, Performing

  The Ritchie Yorke Project Interview, ritchieyorke.com. April 21, 2015.

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