I performed stand-up because I didn't have to ask anyone's permission. My set was never joke-centric. It was a performance.

I don't particularly love live performance of my music. I love writing and recording, but you can't make money off of that.

The Kobe 8 is about enhanced performance. It's the most comfortable shoe I have worn. It's simplistic but has an edge to it.

Remember, benchmark performance -- beta -- can be had for virtually free; alpha is what active managers are paid to generate.

Secularism and Religion are both all about your personal performance. The Gospel is the performance of another applied to you.

Nothing surpasses my performances with small bands, especially with Charlie Parker. A small band doesn't forestall creativity.

I tend to a lot of improvisational ranting, and that's fun. For me, stand-up has been, performance-wise, a really good outlet.

A person can perform only from strength. One cannot build performance on weakness, let alone on something one cannot do at all.

We can't make a giant sprawling movie. We're going to make a small movie. And what we got is what I could get, performance-wise.

If the web can be evolved to include the missing APIs and have better performance, [developers] won't need to go beyond the web.

God is more concerned about your heart than your performance. If your heart is right, your performance will eventually catch up.

I got to focus on my performance - learning how to perform is something I've been working on both personally and professionally.

I have absolutely no objection to performance and success as long as they don't become false idols and threaten to rule our lives.

Don't be snarky, but don't be saccharine. Don't pander, but don't shut people out. Go straight down the line with the performance.

I've seen how much effort has to go into a tour, the performance and also how to look after yourself, not just physically, but mentally too.

God’s anointing is not based on your performance, but if you don’t open the Word, you’re stupid, because that’s where the words of life are.

The one aspect I do love about digital is I love to push performance and I love to roll and roll and keep doing takes in a single performance.

What you picture in your mind, your mind will go to work to accomplish. When you change your pictures you automatically change your performance

A screen actor is compensated in the knowledge that millions will see his performance at one time, where only hundreds will see it on the stage.

[I influenced by ]the work of early [Michelangelo] Antonioni, Orson Welles and [Carlo] Pasolini, I love [Nicolas Jack] Roeg's film "Performance".

Arianna, your performance will actually improve if you can commit to not only working hard, but also unplugging, recharging and renewing yourself.

The core of the concept of a bribe is an inducement improperly influencing the performance of a public function meant to be gratuitously exercised.

The power to distinguish between person and performance and to communicate intrinsic worth flows naturally out of our own sense of intrinsic worth.

When recordings replaced concerts as the dominant mode of hearing music, our conception of the nature of performance and of music itself was altered.

For decades, the journalistic norm had been that the private lives of public officials remained private unless that life impinged on public performance.

I do not believe that the government is in any position to say exactly how every single business and every single activity shall reach those performances.

The performance of performance has developed to such an extent in recent years that it challenges the music itself and will soon threaten it with relegation.

If we observe the performance of only those funds that remain active, we will tend to find that the average performance of the surviving funds exceeds that of the market.

My take is that acting is acting. A performance is a performance. With performance capture, if you don't get the performance on the day, you can't enhance the performance.

The same sort of thing was supposed to happen when performance animation was invented: Everybody thought it would save so much time. But it became its own niche altogether.

Learning and performance will become one and the same thing. Everything you say about learning will be about performance. People will get the point that learning is everything.

I heard some interesting things about your performance up here." "I hear interesting things about your 'performance' all the time Doug, but you don't hear me making jokes about it.

I've realized that the only thing I'm interested in is the performance. If the performance is right, then I'm happy. You offer up the dialogue and then the performance comes around.

Music gets recorded usually in one format, and when you have to take it out and perform it there are other applications and things like that that are better for the live performance.

The lesson is: Even if you know exactly what is going on in you system, measure performance, don't speculate. You'll learn something, and nine times out of ten, it won't be that you were right!!

Trust is the one thing that affects everything else you're doing. It's a performance multiplier which takes your trajectory upwards, for every activity you engage in, from strategy to execution.

Denzel Washington invoked confidence. When you have confidence, you can do anything. And that's what happened. I learned about being honest and keeping it true, keeping it true in my performance.

We all perform. It's what we do for each other all the time, deliberately or unintionally. It's a way of telling about ourselves in the hope of being recognized as what we'd like to be.--PERFORMANCE

The highest knowledge can be nothing more than the shortest and clearest road to truth; all the rest is pretension, not performance, mere verbiage and grandiloquence, from which we can learn nothing.

[My early performance work] started by being the activity of a person, any person, like any other - but once that person became photographed it became a specialized person, the object of a personality cult.

I couldn't worry about whether I`m gonna make it onstage or not. You can't. You just gotta do it. And if you do, you do, and if you don't, you don't, and then something else happens. That's the point of the live performance.

The feelings of being in the audience and being on the podium are very far apart. When you're onstage and something goes wrong, you can do something about it. In the audience, you just have to sit there, and if it's a disastrous performance, I'm the one that gets blamed.

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