Quotes about Performance

A racehorse is an animal that can take several thousand people for a ride at the same time.

It's one thing to know your lines, another to be able to deliver them. The taste of the pudding is in the delivery.

For more than a decade, I led an organization that put on an elaborate Christmas program each December. It was a big production, with over 250 people participating in more than 20 performances. By the end of the season, everyone who participated was exhausted.

I'm lucky I don't make my living in front of the camera.

You have been educated in judgment, which is the essence of worship. Judgment always occurs in the past. It is past-thinking. Will, free or otherwise, is concerned with the future. Thinking is the performance of the moment, out of which you use your judgment to modulate will. You are a convection center through which past prepares future. —Dwarf MacIntosh, Kelpmaster, from Conversations with the Avata

Talent grips us. We are overtaken by the beauty of Michelangelo's sculpture, riveted by Mariah Carey's angelic voice, doubled over in laughter by the comedy of Robin Williams, and captivated by the on screen performances of Denzel Washington.

You know, I think He honestly does care about how we play on the field, more than anything more than win or lose our hearts on the field.

I'll practice as good as I can, but I know that I play even better, with the qualities I have - leadership, my ability to make something happen in games, winning.

When you can't see someone all day long, the only thing you have to evaluate is the work. A lot of the petty evaluation stats just melt away.

My whole life is a theater piece.

But of course we can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.

we can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.