“Performance-wise, you really need to be down in the trenches; you need to do the hard work, for a lot of reasons: To build yourself as a performer, to get a sense of the audience, to work hard and to wonder, 'Do I really want to do this?'” WantNeedsHardReasonWonderAudienceWiseHard WorkPerformancesPerformersTrenches Author:Joan Jett
“When I'm writing obviously I have all the nostalgia in the world, I have all the emotion in the world, but then when I actually perform, I need to just perform it, and that's it. I do retain like a little bit of it because I have to, I sing and perform the songs so I have to - it's a performance of the songs - but I just have to get the right balance.” WorldNeedsWritingLittlesSongBitsEmotionBalanceLittle BitPerformancesNostalgia Author:Ellie Goulding
“But, working with directors whose history is in performance, I feel like there's a different kind of focus, as opposed to directors who are more prone to being really technically proficient or visual. I feel like there are two schools of both, and a director needs to have both.” NeedsFeelsKindTwoDifferentSchoolFocusDirectorsPerformancesVisualsBeing RealDifferent Kinds Author:Bryce Dallas Howard
“I think one of the reasons I haven't been doing music is because I think that some of my performance, like, needs are being taken care of in other mediums.” ThinkingNeedsReasonCareTakenHavensMusic IsPerformancesMediums Author:Carrie Brownstein
“When you're doing the same scene over and over, all day long, you need to keep your levels up for your own performance and for the other actors.” NeedsLongActorsLevelsScenePerformances Author:Iwan Rheon
“Americans are in need of very objective information, and sometimes it's easier to absorb the message through entertainment and through a great story than through the news outlets [where] everything is sensationalized. Not only are you getting information that sort of defies stereotypes, but you're also getting a wonderful story with hopefully good performances.” NeedsSometimesStoriesWonderfulInformationEasierMessagesNewsPerformancesEntertainmentObjectivesHopefullyStereotypeOutlets Author:Nia Long
“I feel like when there's so much conversation about women's athletics right now, we need to focus on their performance and their skill.” NeedsFeelsFocusRight NowSkillsConversationPerformancesAthletics Author:Shawn Johnson
“Normal adults can doodle, amble, and drift with no need to assess risk, since there is normally no risk at all. Jazz improvisation seems less subject to standards of risk than surgery, and less than much formal athletic performance, as in a tennis match.” NeedsSeemsRiskSubjectsNormalStandardsAdultsPerformancesJazzTennisFormalSurgeryAthleticImprovisationJazz ImprovisationAthletic Performance Author:Ernest Sosa
“There is a remarkable nimbleness of style, a balancing act of tone, in Voltaire, which is hard to bring off on stage. When you speak the words out loud, the effect is very different from when you read them. So one needs to do something new with a stage performance, not simply 'tell the story'.” NeedsDifferentHardStoriesSpeakEffectsStageStylePerformancesLoudToneRemarkableSomething NewBalancing ActStage Performance Author:Mark Ravenhill
“We need to increase the capacity; we need to improve performance so that we are more effective at lending that kind of support.” NeedsKindSupportCapacityPerformancesIncreaseLending Author:Thabo Mbeki
“Bong Joon-ho is enormously sensitive to performance. He knows what he needs to see and that's all he needs to shoot. He is so daring. We don't do that in the west. We shoot everything.” KnowsNeedsPerformancesWestSensitiveDaringBongs Author:John Hurt
“You should ask for a performance evaluation. Ask your boss, where do I stand? I need to know what I can do better and what I'm doing well.” KnowsNeedsShouldWellsI CanAsksCan DoPerformancesBossEvaluation Author:Suzy Welch
“Sometimes you write passages that don't need to be rewritten. Performance is that for me. Improvisation, things that happen in the moment, are sometimes wonderful, or wonderful as a moment to be shared between performer and people, but that's it. There might be a strong bond between you and the people, a transformative night, but as a live record it might not translate.” PeopleNeedsWritingSometimesMomentsMightHappensNightStrongRecordsWonderfulPerformancesPerformersPassagesTranslateImprovisationStrong Bond Author:Patti Smith
“You can't just have a good voice. You need a great voice, song, performance and video. When people see you, it all has to match up. There's a lot of missing parts in R&B right now. That's why it's not selling right now. Things that are irresistible, people will pay for it.” PeopleNeedsSongVoicePayMissingRight NowPerformancesVideoSellingIrresistibleGreat Voice Author:Sean Garrett
“What you have to remember, when you get to the level of seeing 10,000 people a night, is that they've all paid to have a performance. I need to make sure that they get their money's worth. I don't want to be going on stage and saying, "I'm just going to try some stuff and if it doesn't work, it doesn't matter," because it does matter.” PeopleIfsWantNeedsTryingDoeMatterRememberNightStuffLevelsSeeingStagePerformancesPaidWorking ItRemember When Author:John Bishop
“Even though I don't feel I need approval, it's still important to me to give a good performance. I'm hard on myself.” NeedsGivingFeelsStillsImportantHardAppreciatePerformancesApproval Author:Michelle Pfeiffer
“Sometimes when family members least deserve love, they need it most. Love is not appropriately expressed in threats, accusations, expressions of disappointment, or retaliation. Real love takes time, patience, help, and continuing performances.” NeedsRealSometimesHelpingLove IsExpressionMembersDeservePerformancesThreatDisappointmentTake TimeReal LoveContinuingFamily MembersAccusationRetaliationTime PatienceDeserve LoveLove Takes Time Author:Marvin J. Ashton
“The fears that assault us are mostly simple anxieties about social skills, about intimacy, about likeableness, or about performance. We need not give emotional food or charge to these fears or become attached to them. We don’t even have to shame ourselves for having these fears. Simply ask your fears, “What are you trying to teach me?” Some say that FEAR is merely an acronym for “False Evidence Appearing Real.” From Everything Belongs, p. 143” NeedsGivingTryingRealAsksSocialSimpleTeachEmotionalSkillsAnxietyEvidencePerformancesShameIntimacyAssaultAppearingSocial SkillsAcronyms Author:Richard Rohr
“The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.” NeedsHumansStatesEnoughPoetPerformancesDramaticBeing HumanAddictLove SomeoneHeroinExtremityHeroin Addiction Author:Nick Hornby
“There are only three measurements that tell you nearly everything you need to know about your organization's overall performance: employee engagement, customer satisfaction, and cash flow...It goes without saying that no company, small or large, can win over the long run without energized employees who believe in the mission and understand how to achieve it.” KnowsNeedsBelieveLongRunningThreeWinningCompanyAchieveFlowPerformancesOrganizationSatisfactionAppreciationMissionsCustomersEngagedEmployeeEngagementCashLong RunsMeasurementEmployee EngagementCustomer SatisfactionCash FlowGreat PerformanceEmployee InspirationalMotivate EmployeesEmployee RecognitionGreat Employee Author:Jack Welch
“Real teams are much more likely to flourish if leaders aim their sights on performance results that balance the needs of customers, employees, and shareholders.” IfsNeedsRealResultsLeaderTeamBalancePerformancesSightAimCustomersEmployeeTeamworkShareholdersInspirational Teamwork Book:The Wisdom of Teams: Creating the High-Performance Organization Source: The Wisdom of Teams: Creating the High-Performance Organization
“Opportunity shies away from need, but opportunity is attracted by talent and ability. What you don't want to happen is opportunity to turn cool on you. You don't want to offend opportunity. So the only thing you present to opportunity is ability, performance and skill. Don't present need to opportunity.” WantLifeNeedsHappensMotivationalTurnsOpportunityAbilityTalentSkillsPerformancesTalents And Abilities Author:Jim Rohn
“The real accomplishment of modern science and technology consists in taking ordinary men, informing them narrowly and deeply and then, through appropriate organization, arranging to have their knowledge combined with that of other specialized but equally ordinary men. This dispenses with the need for genius. The resulting performance, though less inspiring, is far more predictable.” MenNeedsRealScienceTechnologyModernGeniusOrdinaryPerformancesOrganizationScientistAccomplishmentAppropriatePredictableScience And TechnologyModern ScienceOrdinary ManArrangingInforming Author:John Kenneth Galbraith
“Prayer brings to us blessings which we need, and which only God can give, and which prayer can alone convey to us ... This service of prayer is not a mere rite, a ceremony through which we go, a sort of performance. Prayer is going to God for something needed and desired. Prayer is simply asking God to do for us what he has promised us he will do if we ask him ... Asking is man's part. Giving is God's part. The praying belongs to us. The answer belongs to God.” IfsMenNeedsGivingAsksPrayerAnswersPrayingNeededBlessingPerformancesAskingMereGodlyCeremonyRiteAsking God Author:Gerhard Tersteegen
“I think there's such a thing as a performance gene. If it's in your DNA it needs to come out. For me, it originally came out through music, then segued into acting and came out through there. I always needed to get up and perform.” IfsThinkingNeedsActingNeededPerformancesGet UpGenesDna Author:Cillian Murphy