Performance Quotes

What if Theater was the Pong of the the digital Ping?A place where the live experience has an function?

~ Natasha Tsakos

If EXCELLENCE is one of your values, not only you self-critic and evaluate your performance consistently, you BEG others for honest feedback...

~ Assegid Habtewold

People who like their job will give it their best. Those who don't, show it by a poor performance.

~ Ellen J. Barrier

When we perform at our highest level of potential, we are content. Because we have given I best in what we enjoy doing.

~ Ellen J. Barrier

Our teens are embedded in a culture driven by competition and perfectionism, where success is defined by status, performance and their appearance.

~ Auliq Ice

I believe that poems die the moment they are outwardly expressed.

~ Maurice Maeterlinck

The last goose in the column is flying just as high.

~ Marty Rubin

The only performance that makes it, that makes it all the way is the one that achieves madness.

~ Mick Jagger

One forgets that part of one's performance is one's history—or sometimes the lack of it. You're playing against what an audience knows, what they expect. This seems to be true of all performers; there's baggage that gets carried into the venue that we can't see.

~ David Byrne

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

~ Twyla Tharp

Without any music, I started to dance. I wanted the music to be inside me, or at least for it to appear that way. I imagined myself the lead with an audience here to see me perform in a famous ballet. In my fantasy, there was no panic attack. I was free to dance. Free to be me.

~ Lesa Howard

When you step from the wings onto the stage you go from total blackness to a blinding hot glare. After a moment you adjust, but there is that moment. like being inside lightning.

~ Meg Howrey

We change our attitudes, our careers, our relationships. Even our age changes minute by minute. We change our politics, our moods, and our sexual preferences. We change our outlook, we change our minds, we change our sympathies. Yet when someone changes hir gender, we put hir on some television talk show. Well, here’s what I think: I think we all of us do change our genders. All the time. Maybe it’s not as dramatic as some tabloid headline screaming “She Was A He!” But we do, each of us, change our genders. In response to each interaction we have with a new or different person, we subtly shift the kind of man or woman, boy or girl, or whatever gender we’re being at the moment. We’re usually not the same kind of man or woman with our lover as we are with our boss or a parent. When we’re introduced for the first time to someone we find attractive, we shift into being a different kind of man or woman than we are with our childhood friends. We all change our genders.

~ Kate Bornstein

When we talk about my gender as though it were a performance, we let the audience - with all their expectations, prejudices, and presumptions - completely off the hook. - Scott Turner Schofield

~ Kate Bornstein

Any place you compromise in principle you will execute in performance.

~ Johnnie Dent Jr.

Hitting like on a social media platform is the modern day version of clapping at the end of a performance.

~ J.r. Rim

There is no such thing as an “independent artist”. All artists are essentially co-dependent of the audience.

~ Natasha Tsakos

Love is 100% percent practical, oral performance is an ultimate turn-off, whether you like it or not.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Street performances?A little singing. A little martial arts. Some interpretive dance.Wow.I know! The Portuguese have taste.

~ Nico And Gleeson Hedge

We gotta be willing to let it hurt. You know, all this notion that acting is “yeah it’s pretend” and yes we enjoy it and yeah we can have a good time with it. But if you wanna LAND, you wanna make an impact, you want those FUCKERS TO REMEMBER YOU! Then you have to let it hurt sometimes. You gotta get there because that’s all an audience ever wants. Is for you to open up your chest and show them that you have a fucking heart. That’s all we want. A heart. A human being. Not an affectation.

~ Kevin Spacey

Nobody ever washes a rental car.

~ Scott J. Simmerman Ph.d.

When you win nothing hurts.

~ Joe Namath

Putting words onto paper—when it is done as an honest act of search or connection, rather than as an act of manipulation, performance, self-aggrandizement or self-protection—is a holy act.

~ Pat Schneider

The value-added Board brings the high-performance result, “deep common sense,” balance, improved strategic thinking, creativity, wisdom and more.

~ Pearl Zhu

Comparable specification Windows 10 computers from multiple manufacturers can have very different performance between them.

~ Steven Magee

An applause is not just the recognition of good performance, but its proof of being different than the crowd.

~ Amit Kalantri

If you can't bring yourself to applaud because the performance was lousy, then applaud because it's over. They tried.

~ Mark W. Boyer

My wit is only as stupid as the audience.

~ Aleksandra Ninkovic

I also realized that there were lots of unacknowledged theater forms going on all around. Our lives are filled with performances that have been so woven into our daily routine that the artificial and performative aspect has slipped into invisibility.

~ David Byrne

Powerpoint presentations are a kind of theater, a kind of augmented stand-up. Too often it's a boring and tedious genre, and audiences are subjected to the bad as well as the good.

~ David Byrne

In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance... you thrive on that.

~ Bill Gates

The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.

~ Brian Tracy

It's the job of any business owner to be clear about the company's nonnegotiable core values. They're the riverbanks that help guide us as we refine and improve on performance and excellence. A lack of riverbanks creates estuaries and cloudy waters that are confusing to navigate. I want a crystal-clear, swiftly flowing stream.

~ Danny Meyer

The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and by your everyday attitude that you are wholeheartedly supporting them.

~ Harold S. Geneen

From the very early stage when I started doing performance art in the '70s, the general attitude - not just me, but also my colleagues - was that there should not be any documentation, that the performance itself is artwork and there should be no documentation.

~ Marina Abramović

The jokes are great but what really matters for a comedian is his performance, his whole attitude, and the laughs that he gets between the jokes rather than on top of the jokes.

~ Jack Dee

If you go on stage with the wrong attitude, or something in your performance is off, you can lose an audience in the first minute. That first minute is crucial.

~ Allan Carr

I think leather pants are just better than jeans onstage; they give the performance a nice attitude, and they are also shockingly comfortable. Comfort is key.

~ Jessie Baylin

I think being directed and mentored by someone as inspirational as Paul Feig not only improves my performance but, as a whole, makes it what it is.

~ Nargis Fakhri

It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.

~ D. H. Lawrence