Performance Quotes

You need to think outside the box. You need to think differently if you want to sustain what, for me, is my peak performance: the very best that I can achieve as an athlete every day.

~ Tom Brady

There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment - and you start to decline.

~ Andy Grove

I don't develop anything. I don't practice, I don't rehearse. I just go out there, and it's just amazing and unpredictable and spontaneous every single time. It's the most cultivating incredible performance that you can go and see live for the amount of money that you can see it for.

~ Tory Lanez

I think the actors in 'Greystoke' were amazing. They had a really good performance coach called Peter Elliott who's, of his time, one of the greatest simian performance coaches for actors.

~ Andy Serkis

There is nothing like a live performance. You can look at things on television, and you can look at things on YouTube, but when you get in a room full of people and you say one joke, and everyone's laughing at the same thing, it's a really great experience.

~ Loni Love

If you have stage fright, it never goes away. But then I wonder: is the key to that magical performance because of the fear?

~ Stevie Nicks

Leadership can't be fabricated. If it is fabricated and rehearsed, you can't fool the guys in the locker room. So when you talk about leadership, it comes with performance. Leadership comes with consistency.

~ Junior Seau

Mexico has lost its leadership, and a lot of that has to do with its poor performance and the lack of better results in our country.

~ Enrique Pena Nieto

A balanced diet and physical activity are vital to academic performance. A healthy diet has a direct link to increased cognitive function and memory skills, decreased absenteeism from school, and improved mood. These advantages can help students stay focused and complete their coursework.

~ Matt Cartwright

A typical medical practice is like an old-fashioned business which keeps all of its records on paper. It can probably track down any individual transaction if it needs to, but it's basically helpless when it comes to overall measurements of performance. And that's the big problem.

~ Mitch Kapor

Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news.

~ John Le Carré

I never missed a birthday. I never missed a school play. We carpooled. And the greatest compliment I can ever get is not about my career or performance or anything; it's when people say, 'You know, your girls are great.' That's the real thing for me.

~ Billy Crystal

From what I've been able to determine, many of our big stars are addicted to tobacco. They want to smoke in movies for the same reason I smoked as I wrote, which is that they think their performance is going to be better.

~ Joe Eszterhas

I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is fast, and enjoyable, and truly rewarding. I believe in great live performance.

~ Sam Mendes

I like the detail work of telling a story in small pieces, as is done in movie-making, and also the long leap of faith needed to see a theatre performance through each night. Both require focus and self-discipline.

~ Viggo Mortensen

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

~ Samuel Johnson

Puma was all about function and not at all about design. The founder of the company always believed functionality and performance were the only ingredients that could make Puma successful and design never mattered.

~ Jochen Zeitz

I love to see lack of clarity in a performance as well as clarity, as well as trust, as well as the kinds of things that human beings go through. I love to see spontaneity and 'inevitability.' How it gets there is going to shock the hell out of me, but it will get there somehow.

~ Martin Landau

At the end of the day, you're handing your performance over. If a director says after a take, 'You know what, try it just really angry. Just get furious'... you're like, 'Well, I don't know if I want to give you that because I don't know if I trust what you're going to do with it.'

~ Chris Evans

Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it.

~ Van Morrison

Editing yourself is like an irksome coin toss. You've got to strip yourself of super ego and operate from the id. Maybe I've got my Freud mixed up. It's just hard to trade a beauty shot for the performance with truth and a brightly lit zit.

~ Vera Farmiga

Genetics is all about showcasing human beauty along with high-quality performance.

~ Bela Karolyi

It's funny when you know you're playing two characters and you're aware of how you have to play each one into your performance of the other. You're constantly at the back of your mind thinking and it all gets a bit confusing.

~ Jamie Dornan

I look at old performance videos now, and it's really funny - I thought I was such a gangster!

~ Becky G

Porsche is a driver's car - a performance car. That was funny - here's this awesome car, but it's got no cup holders.

~ Jason Mccoy

Performance art is the ultimate in creativity. Since it has so many possibilities at creativity, it's essence tends to become creativity.

~ Jack Bowman

A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.

~ Jack Bowman

Politics with me isn't theater. It's performance art. Sometimes, for its own sake.

~ Roger Stone

Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.

~ William O. Douglas

To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.

~ Barack Obama

My last public performance for money was in 1967. For free, it was 1972, with the exception of two little one-shot, one-song things. But that's just for friends, out of friendship for the people involved, and also because it was fun.

~ Tom Lehrer

Every film that comes out that incorporates CGI or performance capture is a little bit ahead of the last film that came out. You're on the cutting edge for a certain amount of time, and then the new technology comes out.

~ Ben Schnetzer

In '83, not only was there no such thing as performance motion capture technology, there was no such thing as digital animation. This was the analog era.

~ Steven Spielberg

Performance capture is a technology, not a genre; it's just another way of recording an actor's performance.

~ Andy Serkis

When you think about things like power efficiency or performance or Internet connectivity as major technology areas where you have multiple investments, multiple products - security is like that.

~ Renee James

New York State is upside down and backwards; high taxes and low performance. The New York State government was at one time a national model. Now, unfortunately, it's a national disgrace. Sometimes, the corruption in Albany could even make Boss Tweed blush.

~ Andrew Cuomo

The Imperial German Government will not expect the Government of the United States to omit any word or any act necessary to the performance of its sacred duty of maintaining the rights of the United States and its citizens and of safeguarding their free exercise and enjoyment.

~ William Jennings Bryan

An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance, while also providing alternative opportunities to reward the skills of children who learn differently.

~ Gavin Newsom

It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.

~ Harold S. Geneen

It turns out that if you optimize the performance of a car and of an airplane, they are very far away in terms of mechanical features. So you can make a flying car. But they are not very good planes, and they are not very good cars.

~ Gregory Benford