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When performance exceeds ambition, the overlap is called success. — Cullen Hightower

You can't, or you shouldn't, be nominated for an Oscar unless you've turned in a performance that's special. — Rita Moreno

In all we do we must cultivate faith. Increased faith is the touchstone to improved church performance. — Gordon B. Hinckley

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

It is said, no man can write but one book; and if a man have a defect, it is apt to leave its impression on all his performances. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Personally, I always felt times aren't so excellent as are performances. — Bill Rodgers

Only positive consequences encourage good future performances. — George W. Crane

I can assure you, nothing in my performance will be deflated — Katy Perry

Briggsy's performances down the years have been pure magic. If they could bottle his ability and sell if at drama schools they'd make a fortune. — Lynne Perrie

No one wants to be praised for possibilities when one has submitted performances. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

When all the performances are excellent, critics understand it's the direction. — Joel Siegel

Your level of performance matches your dominant self image. — Jack Canfield

I like fantasy. I like horror, science fiction because I can get avant-garde with those performances in those movies. — Nicolas Cage

I used to be a street performer, and performances on Venice Beach, it's like playing the Apollo: They let you know if they don't like you! — Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

You cannot build performance on weaknesses. You can build only on strengths. — Peter Drucker

People tend to remember my performances, not me. — Ellen Barkin

Piano performances by Condoleezza Rice are better than Hitler's paintings. — Evgeni Kostitsyn

A true fiction author is able to act through each character in their book and deliver stunning performances. — Conrad Brasso

I'm kind of intimidated by the big screen - I often keep my performances much smaller and much more natural and subtle. — Chloe Sevigny

An actor matures with experiences, and the more the emotions he/she has been through, the greater the intensity of performances. — Indira Varma

Christ never told his disciples that they would get an Academy Award for their performances, but He did tell them to expect to have troubles. — Billy Graham

Lizzy Weiss is such a great writer, and she really writes for the performances. — Vanessa Marano

I like that feeling of letting loose, of not planning every step. The best performances are the ones that you just let happen. — Damian Woetzel

Winners believe in their worth in advance of their performance. — Denis Waitley

Chess is one of the few arts where composition takes place simultaneously with performance — Garry Kasparov

I'm not impressed by your performance. — Georges St-Pierre

Robin Williams understands sonic performances. He understands what it's like to change your voice up. — Billy West

Performers try harder. — David Byrne

Whenever I have a bad performance, I look at it as a learning experience. — Johnny Damon

Palin is smart, politically skilled, courageous and likable. Her convention and debate performances were impressive. — David Brooks

We writers dream of a future where actors are mostly computer generated and their performances can be adjusted, by us, on a laptop, alone. — Tina Fey

Generally speaking, individual performances don't win basketball games — John Wooden

Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever. — Adam McKay

The best way to improve mental performance, is to improve physical performance — Tim Ferriss

Preparation Perfect Performances — Andrea Hirata

Audiences tend to get the performances they deserve ... — Gene Lees

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

America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances. — Meryl Streep

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. — James Mangold

I didn't get paid for performances most of my life. If I did, I would be billionaire now, and I'm not. — Marina Abramovic

Hopefully, that people could see a progression in my performances because that's how it's always felt to me. — Christian Slater

quality of the relationships between qualified players is usually more important than the individual performances. — Corey Ladas

High achievers dwell on what they do well and spend very little time evaluating themselves and their performances. — John Eliot

I let the performance speak for itself. — Darrell Wallace Jr.

Our righteousness doesn't depend on our present performance but on Jesus' finished performance. — Judah Smith

The performances of others are often selected as standards for self-improvement of abilities — Albert Bandura

Our possessions are wholly in our performances. He owns nothing to whom the world owes nothing. — William Gilmore Simms

My performances may have elements that some may find entertaining, but that's not my main purpose. — Vaginal Davis

What I want is that I can match my performances during training so I can be satisfied with myself. — Liu Xiang

History sometimes acts as madly as heredity, and her most unpredictable performances are often her most glorious. — Rebecca West

An amazing performance is always a reflection of awesome amounts of practice. — Robin Sharma

Al Gore's performances could be a case study in abnormal-psychology classes. — Rich Lowry

I find beauty in the continual shaping of chaos which clearly embodies the primordial power of nature's performance — Iris Van Herpen

our ancestors have told stories of war, love, mysteries, and the miraculous performances of lower animals and inanimate objects. — Lemuel Arthur Pittenger

My wife, Barbara, is great. She arranges when I do work that I have a day off between performances. — Don Rickles

The sign of a great player is how much he elevates his colleagues' performance. — Phil Jackson

I am pure performance, and Robert Wilson is pure theater. — Marina Abramovic

I don't know why people are so surprised by my live performances. — John Davidson

I was always the kid in school who tried to get attention, not necessarily the class clown, but I'd do little unexpected performances. — Leonardo DiCaprio

I think I avoid stepping into sentimentality by trying to be as truthful as possible with performances. — Lasse Hallstrom

I am the poet of the high wire - I never do stunts; I do theatrical performances. — Philippe Petit

I've realized that I can do performances. — David Hockney

[On Katharine Hepburn's stage performance:] She ran the whole gamut of emotions, from A to B. — Dorothy Parker

Directing was a great experience, but it's terrifying to have the responsibility of carving up the other actors' performances. — John Krasinski

We're (also) looking for a good people person who is able to motivate others and get strong performances out of people. — Kenneth Lay

Sometimes it was hard to tell where the performance ended and the real self began - but what was this "real" self other than a set of performances? — Ken Liu

When your image improves, your performance improves. — Zig Ziglar

I've learned to never expect or require performances that exceed the player's ability. If they just equal their ability, that's what you want. — Ned Colletti

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. — Kobe Bryant

An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment. — Elbert Hubbard

I always think that a director who knows about the technical side, but cares about the acting performances and casting as well, is ahead of the game. — Bob Balaban

I owe the public just one thing - a good performance. — Bob Gibson

Chris Chandler is the best performance poet I have ever seen. — Utah Phillips

Everything I do is geared towards improving my next performance. — Carolina Kluft

No work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps. — Uta Hagen

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. — Andrew Wommack

Oysters are supposed to enhance your sexual performance, but they don't work for me. Maybe I put them on too soon. — Garry Shandling

All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance. — Samuel Johnson

Most of the performances I see on TV and in movies are so self-conscious and overacted. I would think a natural actress would be welcome. — Mary Badham

Everyone knows 'Smash' is about musical numbers, and everyone knows we have fantastic dance sequences and great performances. — Raza Jaffrey

I always try to take from past performances. You never try to get too high or too low. Just play every game, just treat every game like it's the same. — Derek Jeter

Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think you need to do that. — Asia Argento

It's true, spectacular preparation always precedes spectacular performance. — Zig Ziglar

I've always liked artists like Chris Burden, who would take performances, put them in galleries, and then do things that were on the edge. — David Blaine

The Parent Trap wouldn't have been as special without the remarkable performances by Hayley Mills. — Maureen O'Hara

I'm very self-conscious as an actor, with performances and things, and I don't like watching my own stuff. — Matthew Lewis

I didn't develop or build synths. I had my technicians modify them for my live stage performances. — Gary Wright

Shutting people down creatively often doesn't get the best performance out of them. — Seth Rogen

Performances have a bit of a life and a time scale to themselves. — Sue Tompkins

I never considered myself a performance artist. — Agnes Denes

I've done performances in movies that I was immensely proud of and the movies didn't take off like a rocket at Cape Canaveral, it didn't take off. — Albert Brooks

To me, 'Scream' is a masterpiece on every level - the performances, the humor, the tone - it's just flawless. — Marley Shelton

It's not a performance to impress the Puritans — Martin Tyler

Greatness is in the preparation, not in the performance. — Jack Hyles

After six or seven performances of any song, you begin to perform it rather than feel it. — Graham Nash

I've always been really inspired by watching top athletes putting in peak performances. — Manu Bennett

We have to have great pitching performances from our guys, and we have to take it from there. — Bobby Bonilla

The way you see yourself today will affect your performance today. — Zig Ziglar

If I think about the way I was drawn into the music, it was much more by recordings than by live performances. — Evan Parker

While I've never 'phoned in' a performance, I think I have given some performances where I could have been a bit braver. — James Nesbitt