Performing Quotes - Page 15

• The prevailing idea seems to be, that I come to God and ask Him for something that I want, and that I expect Him to give me that which I have asked. But this is a most dishonouring and degrading conception. The popular belief reduces God to a servant, our servant: doing our bidding, performing our pleasure, granting our desires. No, prayer is a coming to God, telling Him my need, committing my way unto the Lord, and leaving Him to deal with it as seemeth Him best.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Prayer, Ideas, Giving

  Arthur W. Pink (2007). “The Sovereignty of God”, p.107, Lulu.com

  229 Copy quote

  Show source

• No man's ambitions (have) a right to stand in the way of performing a simple act of justice.

  John Peter Altgeld

  Ambition, Simple, Men

  9 Copy quote

• This vehicle is performing like a champ. I've got a super spaceship under me.

  Robert Crippen

  Airplane, Aviation, Spaceships

  4 Copy quote

• In golf, driving is a game of free-swinging muscle control, while putting is something like performing eye surgery and using a bread knife for a scalpel.

  Tommy Bolt

  Eye, Golf, Knives

  13 Copy quote

• There are many ways of performing the operations successfully. I can claim, however, to be in a position to explain how not to putt. I think I know as well as anybody how not to do it.

  Harry Vardon

  Golf, Thinking, Way

  Harry Vardon (1989). “Vardon On Golf”, p.106, BookBaby

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• The greatest ally you have to get things working well and the players performing as a team is the bench. Don't be afraid to use it, either for the star player or anyone else.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Stars, Team

  4 Copy quote

• I can skate beautifully. While performing on ice I always try to please the audience and to win as well. Being artistic is very important to get the audience on your side. As for a competition, you can't win without strong technical content.

  Evgeni Plushenko

  Strong, Winning, Bad Ass

  4 Copy quote

• Originally the dream was about traveling and developing a job that would permit me to travel. And I decided to go into street performing because it was a traveling job; it would let me go around the world.

  Guy Laliberte

  Dream, Travel, Jobs

  8 Copy quote

• I wish they would remember that the charge to Peter was "Feed my sheep", not "Try experiments on my rats", or even "Teach my performing dogs new tricks".

  C. S. Lewis

  Dog, Sheep, Wish

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Your body is an amazing creation, capable of performing great wonders, but you can destroy that miraculous machine's potential with an overdose of stress.

  Harry Johnson

  Stress, Machines, Body

  16 Copy quote

• Do you see that kitten chasing so prettily her own tail? If you could look with her eyes, you might see her surrounded with hundreds of figures performing complex dramas, with tragic and comic issues, long conversations, many characters, many ups and downs of fate.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Drama, Character, Cat

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.489, Library of America

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• The question I ask myself like almost every day is: ‘Am I doing the most important thing I could be doing?' Unless I feel like I’m working on the most important problem that I can help with, then I’m not going to feel good about how I’m spending my time. And that’s what this company is.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Inspirational, Feel Good, Important

  "Time honor caps celebrity-making of Mark Zuckerberg". "Radical Transparency" by, www.dailynews.com. December 15, 2010.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am not doing any favour, only performing a duty; this victory is a result of struggle of five generations.

  Narendra Modi

  Struggle, Emotional, Victory

  4 Copy quote

• I want to quit. Not performing, but being a woman altogether. I want to throw my hands in the air, after reading a mean Twitter comment, and say, 'All right! You got it. You figured me out. I'm not pretty. I'm not thin. I do not deserve to use my voice. I'll start wearing a burqa and start waiting tables at a pancake house. All my self-worth is based on what you can see.' But then I think, F*** that ... I am a woman with thoughts and questions and s*** to say. I say if I'm beautiful. I say if I'm strong. You will not determine my story - I will.

  Amy Schumer

  Beautiful, Strong, Fun

  Speech About Confidence at the Gloria Awards and Gala, www.vulture.com. May 2, 2014.

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• We may lay it down as an incontestible axiom, that, in all the operations of art and nature, nothing is created; an equal quantity of matter exists both before and after the experiment; the quality and quantity of the elements remain precisely the same; and nothing takes place beyond changes and modifications in the combination of these elements. Upon this principle the whole art of performing chemical experiments depends: We must always suppose an exact equality between the elements of the body examined and those of the products of its analysis.

  Antoine Lavoisier

  Art, Science, Quality

  Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1802). “Elements of chemistry, tr. by R. Kerr”, p.226

  20 Copy quote

  Show source

• Judging from the way they sat and goggled at the drag on the stage it was obvious that they were indulging in delightful fantasies that brought to them substantial memories of the girls they had left behind in London or Manchester. As the Quartermaster Captain lisped after performing before a particularly rapt audience: 'I bet there were more standing pricks than snotty noses tonight'. Astonishingly, I suspect he was right. We probably helped to keep the home fires of passion burning.

  Eric Hiscock

  Girl, Memories, War

  4 Copy quote

• Our global economy is out of control and performing contrary to basic principles of market economics.

  David Korten

  Principles, Economics, Economy

  "A Better Future with Globalization?". Interview with Alexander M. Dake, www.paraview.com. 2002.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Poetry is a solitary process. One does not write poetry for the masses. Poetry is a self-involved, lofty pursuit. Songs are for the people. When I'm writing a song, I imagine performing it. I imagine giving it. It's a different aspect of communication. It's for the people.

  Patti Smith

  Song, Communication, Writing

  10 Copy quote

• The cannon thunders... limbs fly in all directions... one can hear the groans of victims and the howling of those performing the sacrifice... it's Humanity in search of happiness.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Funny, Happiness, War

  15 Copy quote

• Look em in the eye. Make a gesture of inclusion, which he did all the time. And above all, have a chorus. So I learned from Pete Seeger to have something for them to sing.

  Tom Paxton

  Eye, Looks, Ems

  8 Copy quote

• Both law and comedy are heavily focused on thought and viewing all angles. To write a good joke, you have to look at a premise every way possible. And with a good legal argument, you have to see all sides to get the best line of argument for your client. Law school made me a better comic, and comedy has made me a better public speaker.

  Troy Walker

  Writing, School, Law

  4 Copy quote

• The majority of people mistakenly feel like they don't need a live musical experience.

  Reggie Workman

  People, Musical, Majority

  6 Copy quote

• You've got to have fun playing. It bothers me when players don't seem to be enjoying themselves, even when they play an incredible improvisation.

  Rufus Reid

  Fun, Player, Incredibles

  6 Copy quote

• Wandering around back stage at a willie Nelson concert is a bit like being the parrot on the shoulder of the guy who's running the Ferris wheel. It's not the best seat in the house, but you see enough lights, action, people, and confusion to make you wonder if anybody knows what the hell's going on. If you're sitting out front, of course, it all rolls along as smoothly as a German train schedule, but as Willie, like any great magician, would be the first to point out, the real show is never in the center ring. As Willie always says, Fortunately, we're not in control.

  Kinky Friedman

  Running, Real, Light

  Kinky Friedman (2008). “What Would Kinky Do?: How to Unscrew a Screwed-Up World”, p.104, Macmillan

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• There's the most resistance to an actor singing. It's like I'm being disloyal to my industry.

  Kevin Bacon

  Singing, Actors, Resistance

  "The fabulous Bacon boy". Interview with Ian Tucker, www.theguardian.com. October 18, 2003.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source