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“Given Mr. Obama's lack of experience as an executive, and his past performance in crises such as the oil spill, it is reasonable for those of us who support the effort in Afghanistan to worry that he will not be up to the job.”

Jobs Past Given Effort Worry Support Performances Crisis Oil Reasonable Executives Afghanistan Spills Oil Spill

Author:Jim Talent

“To understand is to experience harmony between what we aim at and what is given, between the intention and the performance - and the body is our anchorage in the world.”

World Body Given Understanding Performances Harmony Aim Intention

Book:Phenomenology of Perception

Source: Phenomenology of Perception

“Although we can't control which roles are assigned to us, it must be our business to act our given role as best we possibly can and to refrain from complaining about it. Where ever you find yourself and in whatever circumstances, give an impeccable performance.”

Giving Motivational Given Roles Circumstances Performances Complaining Finding Yourself Refrain Impeccable

Author:Epictetus

“The director is the most important because, ultimately, as an actor, when you watch a movie, it looks like an actor is giving a performance, and they kind of are. But, what's actually happening is that an actor has given a bunch of ingredients over to a director, who then constructs a performance. That's movie-making.”

Giving Looks Kind Important Actors Given Watches Directors Happenings Performances Bunch Ingredients Constructs Movie Making

Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“In my whole career, in fact, I can remember only two first nights when a show was at its peak on the first night. And I just wish we could devise a system where critics came not on a single evening but were given a choice of performances to attend.”

Firsts I Can Two Whole Facts Shows Remember Night Choices Given Wish Careers Performances Critics Evening

Author:Richard McCabe

“Even if Mays is given every conceivable break on every unknown - defense, base running, clutch hitting - his performance still would not match Mantle's.”

Ifs Stills Running Given Break Performances Baseball Defense Hitting Clutch

Book:The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract

Source: The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract

“Even on my films, I always collaborate with the actors. That's a given. I think you need that. You need the actors to feel as much ownership of the performance and the direction of the story as you do, to get the most out of everyone's potential.”

Thinking Needs Feels Stories Film Actors Given Performances Ownership

Author:Cary Fukunaga

“The measure of performance of any given agent is the amount of money it accumulates through its actions.”

Action Given Amount Performances Agents

Book:Hidden order: how adaptation builds complexity

Source: Hidden order: how adaptation builds complexity

“Emily Kendal Frey's The Grief Performance is a book that condenses a journey of finding and re-finding loss into beautiful packages. The packages are the poems and they sit shiny and new on every page of this fabulous and generous book. I want to go into the world that these poems create, just so that I can be given these terrifying presents again and again. I know you will, too. See you there.”

Knows World Want I Can Book Beautiful Given Loss Grief Journey Findings Pages Performances Generous Again And Again Fabulous Packages Emily

Author:Dorothea Lasky

“People appreciating my performance is good enough for me. I don't care much for awards and have never given it much thought. And anyway, I can't play the games people play to win awards.”

People I Can Enough Play Care Games Winning Given Appreciate Performances Don't Care I Don't Care Good Enough Awards Play To Win

Author:Manisha Koirala

“I always say I've given 24 insufficient performances and I'm looking forward to the time in my life when I'll do something that I think is good. There's always stuff you can do better, stuff that maybe you didn't uncover enough. But if you do something that you truly believe is perfect, then that's got to be the last movie you do.”

Ifs Thinking Believe Enough Lasts Given Stuff Can Do Perfect Performances Looking Forward Insufficient

Author:Russell Crowe

“Every time I go to Europe, I remember that James Dean never saw Europe, but yet I see his face everywhere. There's James Dean, Humphrey Bogart and Marilyn Monroe - windows of the Champs Elysees, discos in the south of Spain, restaurants in Sweden, t-shirts in Moscow. My life was confused and disoriented for years by his passing. My sense of destiny destroyed - the great films he would have directed, the great performances he would have given, the great humanitarian he would have become, and yet, he's the greatest actor and star I have ever known.”

“People talk about me in Arcadia and I think I was okay in it but Ive given better performances in other productions that didnt have the same impact. But I knew Arcadia was going to be an event and I wanted to be part of it.”

People Thinking Wanted Given Events Okay Performances Impact Productions Arcadia

Author:Rufus Sewell

“Eric's performance is an awesome and entirely honest expression of the pain and beauty of his music. To watch him play is like riding on the tail of a dragon, but he is so gentle with his rider, you forget how high up you are or how intense the ride is. He is perhaps the most generous performer I have ever watched, every bit of himself is given to the audience. He's like a Marina Abramovic with a piano, completely and deeply committed, regardless of that pain.”

Play Pain Given Bits Forget Watches Audience Honest Expression Performances Committed Intense Gentle Piano Generous Dragons Performers Riding Tails Riders Eric

Author:Tea Leoni

“The theater is a baffling business, and a shockingly wasteful one when you consider that people who have proven their worth, who have appeared in or been responsible for successful plays, who have given outstanding performances, can still, in the full tide of their energy, be forced, through lack of opportunity, to sit idle season after season, their enthusiasm, their morale, their very talent dwindling to slow gray death. Of finances we will not even speak; it is too sad a tale.”

Source: Past imperfect

“The law demands good works and uses its terror--rejection, shame, fear of punishment, unanswered prayer, personal tragedy, etc.--as motivation. Here performance is a necessity to secure the blessings and avoid the curses. Grace, on the other hand, allows us to serve on a different basis--not from fear but on the basis of love and gratitude, from appreciation and gladness for blessings freely given and freely received.”

“Good engineering is characterized by gradual, stepwise refinement of products that yields increased performance under given constraints and with given resources.”

Given Products Resources Performances Programming Yield Software Engineering Constraints Refinement Software Engineering

Author:Niklaus Wirth

“Every day I remind myself of all that I have been given... With singing, you never know when you are going to lose the voice, and that makes you appreciate the time that you have when you are still singing well. I am always thanking God for another season, another month, another performance.”

Knows Wells Has Beens Stills Given Voice Loses Months Singing Appreciate Performances Seasons Thank God

Author:Anita O'Day

“I do feel that scripts get developed now to a point where they're sort of actor-proof. If the actor is not very good, the narrative still survives because it's all in the dialogue. Not to say there aren't great performances in English-language films, because there are every year, but the 1970s were awash with great performances, and I was wondering whether it had to do with the amount of space and the amount of responsibility given to the actors.”

Ifs Feels Years Stills Film Actors Language Given Space Responsibility Wonder Amount Performances Very Good Scripts Proof Dialogue Narrative English Language Great Performance

Author:Paul Bettany

“I was charmed by a performance given by Crowded House at Toronto's Massey Hall where the bass player broke a string.”

House Given Player Performances Broke Strings Halls Bass Crowded Toronto Charmed Bass Players

Author:Alannah Myles

“I have the confidence that I can take anybody and have them give a good performance, because I don't think there's anything to acting except expressing, being able to converse. So if I can just convince somebody not to clean themselves up, and not to be someone that they're not, and just be what they are in given circumstances, that's all that acting is to me, and I don't think it's very difficult.”

Ifs Thinking Giving I Can Able Given Difficult Acting Circumstances Performances Clean Convince Converses

Author:John Cassavetes

“I have always been determined to never compromise my faith or my principles. I always relied on my God-given talent when I took the field. So the idea of using PED's to enhance my performance was a line I chose not to cross.”

Ideas Given Lines Principles Talent Fields Crosses Performances Determined Compromise Never Compromise God Given Talents

Author:Tim Salmon

“At the core of an analytical edge is an ability to systematically distinguish between fundamentals and expectations. Fundamentals are a well thought out distribution of outcomes, and expectations are what's priced into an asset. A power metaphor is the [pari-mutuel] racetrack. The fundamentals are how fast a given horse will run and the expectations are the odds on the tote board. As any serious handicapper knows, you make money only by finding a mispricing between the performance of the horse and the odds. There are no 'good' or 'bad' horses, just correctly or incorrectly priced ones.”

Knows Wells Running Given Ability Serious Findings Expectations Performances Horse Fundamentals Metaphor Edges Core Making Money Boards Outcomes Assets Odds Distribution Totes

Author:Michael Mauboussin

“The best performance advice I have ever been given was to "Know where your light is, onstage."”

Knows Light Given Advice Performances Best Performance

Author:Vaginal Davis

“There is a reality to the way the actors play the scenes, given that there is a real, animatronic, moving robot in the room. So the level of nuance and realism in performance was higher because we built the real ones, and it keeps the visual effects guys honest.”

Way Real Play Reality Moving Guy Actors Given Levels Rooms Effects Honest Higher Scene Built Performances Visuals Realism Robots Nuance Real Ones Visual Effects

Author:Shawn Anthony Levy

“The Bible is full of God's promises to provide for us spiritually and materially, to never forsake us, to give us peace in times of difficult circumstances, to cause all circumstances to work together for our good, and finally to bring us safely home to glory. Not one of those promises is dependent upon our performance. They are all dependent on the grace of God given to us through Jesus Christ.”

“The minute you feel you have given a faultless performance is the time to get out.”

Feels Given Minutes Performances

Author:Charlton Heston

“You know that this vignette and that vignette belong side by side, you know that a certain turn of phrase you've been saving will probably work best within a given section of the narrative. As in a jazz performance, writing lives or dies by what's produced in that moment. But that moment is attended by long preparation.”

Knows Writing Long Moments Certain Dies Turns Given Sides Performances Jazz Saving Preparation Narrative Phrases That Moment Sections Writing Life Vignettes

Author:Teju Cole

“I feel like if you compare the commentary, what's covered with female athletics, as with men. On any given day, if a guy competes, you're going to critique his technique and his performance, training. With a girl, you don't do the same thing. You might mention a little bit of that, but you're also going to get what she was wearing, how she performed, what she looked like. I feel like it should be the same.”

Ifs Men Feels Should Littles Might Guy Girl Given Bits Little Bit Training Female Performances Technique Compare Covered Critique Athletics Commentary

Author:Shawn Johnson

“Anthony Mackie in 'The Hurt Locker' is everything an actor can hope to be. So rock steady in his portrayal that you immediately forget every performance he may have previously given, and focus only on the character in front of you.”

May Character Actors Given Hurt Forget Focus Rocks Fronts Performances Steady Lockers Portrayal Hurt Locker

Author:Denis Leary

“In principle, I think the idea of rewarding a good effort is interesting, but movies are generally different from each other as are performances and the conditions on how the performances are given and how they're edited and so forth.”

Thinking Ideas Different Given Interesting Effort Principles Conditions Performances Edited

Author:Viggo Mortensen

“Too often, charity is extended to another when his actions or conduct are acceptable to us. The exhibition of charity to another must not be dependent on his performance. It should be given because of who we are-not because of how we behave.”

Should Inspiration Action Given Social Performances Charity Behave Who We Are Dependent Acceptable Exhibitions

Author:H. Burke Peterson

“Just to set the record straight, a salary for a given on-screen performance does not include the right to invade anyone’s privacy, to destroy someone’s sense of self.”

Doe Self Given Records Performances Screens Privacy Salary Sense Of Self

Author:Jodie Foster

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