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I think there are a lot of celebrities who put on a performance on camera.
Strive for excellence in few things, rather than good performance in many.
Piano performances by Condoleezza Rice are better than Hitler's paintings.
Somehow writing has always seemed to me to have an element of performance.
I don't think anyone could ever be wholly satisfied with their performance.
I try to see interviewing as performance art, and just take it as it comes.
It's true, spectacular preparation always precedes spectacular performance.
If I had a bad performance in a particular leotard, I threw it in the trash.
You cannot build performance on weaknesses. You can build only on strengths.
We do what we can, and then make a theory to prove our performance the best.
An amazing performance is always a reflection of awesome amounts of practice.
I do everything in the third person. Performance is about being someone else.
The sixth Harry Potter film - I don't like my performance in that film at all.
The best way to improve mental performance, is to improve physical performance
You mustn't judge a politician by talk. You have to judge them by performance.
Nobody has milked one performance better than me - and I'm damned proud of it.
The life of every man is an endlessly repeated performance of the life of man.
By nature, worship is not some performance we do, but a presence we experience.
The sign of a great player is how much he elevates his colleagues' performance.
I am a bit evangelical, I know, but performance-capture is still misunderstood.
I can't let in the light.It will destroy my performance like light destroys film
Be fanatics. When it comes to being and doing and dreaming the best, be maniacs.
I want to touch the world through my performances on screen but also off screen.
I actually acted onstage before I'd ever seen a live performance, and I loved it.
I've always seemed to have my best performances when I'm under the most pressure.
Self-consciousness can destroy a performance. Getting rid of that is always good.
How you measure the performance of your managers directly affects the way they act.
Shutting people down creatively often doesn't get the best performance out of them.
Giving a good performance, giving it all is what it's all about. I love to perform.
When I see Almunia's performances, I get angry and have to make a fist in my pocket
I'm not a performance artist or any of that, I'm not out to please anyone. Just me.
I make 50 cents for showing up... and the other 50 cents is based on my performance.
No one tells you what to do if you completely flop at the beginning of a performance.
no work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps.
The audience, the place youre in, has everything to do with how your performance goes.
You're always going to be more judgmental about your own performance than anyone else.
I had to help to coax the performances and I really enjoyed that extra responsibility.
When you try hard to do your best, the effect on your performance is often to jinx it.
A sloppy performance in a photograph is as distressing as a sloppy performance in music.
I'm one of these people who would rather show you than tell you through the performance.
I get nervous every time, for every single performance, before getting up on that stage.
If only it were as easy to do the work of others as it is to criticize their performance.
I don't say that I never feel fear before a performance, but I have learned to channel it.
Chess is one of the few arts where composition takes place simultaneously with performance
I became fascinated by the fact that you could translate written material into performance.
Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away.
Mastery has been achieved when one neither makes a mistake nor hesitates in the performance.
Your self-image controls your performance; see yourself as confident and in complete control
[On Katharine Hepburn's stage performance:] She ran the whole gamut of emotions, from A to B.
The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.