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

Self Actors Stuff My Own Conscious Performances Self Conscious

“Your level of performance matches your dominant self image.”

“Losing ... really does say something about who you are. Among other things it measures are: do you blame others, or do you own the loss? Do you analyze your failure, or just complain about bad luck? If you're willing to examine failure, and to look not just at your outward physical performance, but your internal workings, too, losing can be valuable. How you behave in those moments can perhaps be more self-defining than winning could ever be. Sometimes losing shows you for who you really are.”

Ifs Looks Doe Self Sometimes Moments Shows Winning Loss Willing Losing Performances Blame Luck Who You Are Valuable Complaining Behave Internals Defining Bad Luck

Author:Lance Armstrong

“One's worth and self-regard ought to come from individual competitive performance, not from group identity. Pride based on clan or tribal connections is atavistic. It appeals to people who fear they cannot succeed as individuals, and by diverting their energies it all but ensures they will not succeed as individuals.”

People Self Individual Energy Groups Identity Pride Ought Succeed Connections Performances Regard Appeals Clans Group Identity

Book:In Defense of Elitism

Source: In Defense of Elitism

“I always get self-conscious about what I look like in a film, but less so if I'm a character very far removed from who I am. Then I just worry about the performance, and that's equally an odd experience.”

Ifs Looks Self Character Film Worry Conscious Performances Who I Am Odd Self Conscious

Author:Benedict Cumberbatch

“Self-consciousness can destroy a performance. Getting rid of that is always good.”

Self Consciousness Performances Self Consciousness

Author:Joe Dempsie

“Assume the worst. About everybody. But don't let this poisoned outlook affect your job performance. Let it all roll off your back. Ignore it. Be amused by what you see and suspect. Just because someone you work with is a miserable, treacherous, self-serving, capricious and corrupt asshole shouldn't prevent you from enjoying their company, working with them or finding them entertaining.”

Self Jobs Enjoy Company Worst Findings Performances Assuming Miserable Serving Suspects Entertaining Outlook Amused Treacherous Self Serving Capricious Kitchen Confidential

Book:Tony Bourdain boxset: Kitchen Confidential & Medium Raw

Source: Tony Bourdain boxset: Kitchen Confidential & Medium Raw

“A frequent change of role, and of the lighter sort - especially such as one does not like forcing one's self to use the very utmost of his ability in the performance of - is the training requisite for a mastery of the actor's art.”

Doe Art Self Use Actors Ability Roles Training Performances Mastery Lighters

Book:Edwin Booth: Recollections by His Daughter, Edwina Booth Grossmann, and Letters to Her and to His Friends

Source: Edwin Booth: Recollections by His Daughter, Edwina Booth Grossmann, and Letters to Her and to His Friends

“Emotional self-control is NOT the same as overcontrol, the stifling of all feeling and spontaneity....when such emotional suppression is chronic, it can impair thinking, hamper intellectual performance and interfere with smooth social interaction. By contrast, emotional competence implies we have a choice as to how we express our feelings.”

“Excesses are essentially gestures. It is easy to be extremely cruel, magnanimous, humble or self-sacrificing when we see ourselves as actors in a performance.”

Self Actors Easy Sacrifice Waste Performances Humble Excess Gestures Magnanimous

Book:The Passionate State of Mind

Source: The Passionate State of Mind

“I haven't seen so much tippy-toeing around since the last time I went to the ballet. When members of the arts community were askedthis week about one of their biggest benefactors, Philip Morris, and its requests that they lobby the New York City Council on the company's behalf, the pas de deux of self- justification was so painstakingly choreographed that it constituted a performance all by itself.”

“These days, I find it harder to listen to really trebly lo-fi recordings. At the same time, without the old limitations, these new technologies require self control. So much of the software seems to be about correcting imperfections - quantizing, Auto-tune - and, to me, those corrections can really drain the life out of a performance.”

Self Seems Technology Performances Harder Limitation These Days Tunes Imperfection Software Self Control Drains New Technology Corrections Correcting Auto Tune

Author:Michael Dumontier

“It seems a strange thing, but once I was able to get past that kind of self-image problem, I was able to open up in my comedy work and just go all out, take chances, and have fun with the performance aspect of that.”

Kind Self Problem Seems Able Past Fun Chance Comedy Strange Aspect Performances Having Fun Take A Chance Strange Things

Author:Amy Poehler

“Technology is neutral. You can use [it] to become frenetic and to go out of your mind. But you can also use technology to relax and improve performance. Self-awareness is not just relaxation and not just meditation. It must combine relaxation with activity and dynamism. Technology can aid that.”

Mind Self Use Technology Meditation Awareness Activity Performances Self Awareness Aids Relax Relaxation Dynamism

Author:Deepak Chopra

“In order to move our self image higher on the spectrum of performance, we must specifically attack our self-talking and our self-thinking? By using constructive imagination - the eye of faith - we can change our self image.”

Thinking Self Eye Moving Order Peace Imagination Talking Higher Performances Spectrum Constructive

Author:Hyrum W. Smith

“The effects of outcome expectancies on performance motivation are partly governed by self-beliefs of efficacy”

Self Motivation Belief Effects Performances Outcomes Efficacy Belief In Self Expectancy Self Efficacy

Author:Albert Bandura

“Expected outcomes contribute to motivation independently of self-efficacy beliefs when outcomes are not completely controlled by quality of performance. This occurs when extraneous factors also affect outcomes, or outcomes are socially tied to a minimum level of performance so that some variations in quality of performance above and below the standard do not produce differential outcomes”

Self Motivation Belief Levels Quality Produce Standards Performances Expected Factors Outcomes Controlled Tied Minimum Variation Efficacy Self Efficacy Above And Below

Author:Albert Bandura

“[Attributional] factors serve as conveyors of efficacy information that influence performance largely through their intervening effects on self-percepts of efficacy”

Self Influence Effects Information Performances Factors Efficacy Self Efficacy Intervening

Author:Albert Bandura

“Perceived self-efficacy influences the types of causal attributions people make for their performances”

People Self Influence Type Performances Efficacy Self Efficacy Attribution Perceived Self

Author:Albert Bandura

“Self efficacious children tend to attribute their successes to ability, but ability attributions affect performance indirectly through perceived self-efficacy”

Children Self Ability Performances Attributes Efficacy Self Efficacy Attribution Perceived Self

Author:Albert Bandura

“The performances of others are often selected as standards for self-improvement of abilities”

Self Ability Self Improvement Standards Performances Improvement Selected Self Efficacy

Author:Albert Bandura

“People who underestimate their capabilities also bear costs, although, as already noted, these are more likely to take self-limiting rather than aversive forms. By failing to cultivate personal potentialities and constricting their activities, such persons cut themselves off from many rewarding experiences. Should they attempt tasks having evaluative significance, they create internal obstacles to effective performance by approaching them with unnerving self-doubts”

“Even noteworthy performance attainments do not necessarily boost perceived self-efficacy”

Self Performances Attainment Boost Efficacy Self Efficacy Perceived Self

Author:Albert Bandura

“When experience contradicts firmly held judgments of self-efficacy, people may not change their beliefs about themselves if the conditions of performance are such as to lead them to discount the import of the experience”

People Ifs May Self Belief Conditions Judgment Performances Imports Efficacy Discounts Self Efficacy

Author:Albert Bandura

“Behavior must also be adequately assessed under appropriate circumstances. Ill-defined global measures of perceived self-efficacy or defective assessments of performance will yield discordances. Disparities will also arise when efficacy is judged for performances in actual situations but performance is measured in simulated situations that are easier to deal with than the actualities”

Self Deals Situation Circumstances Easier Behavior Performances Ill Arise Defined Appropriate Yield Judged Assessment Actuality Efficacy Disparity Defective Self Efficacy Perceived Self

Author:Albert Bandura

“Discrepancies between self-efficacy judgment and performance will arise when either the tasks or the circumstances under which they are performed are ambiguous”

Self Circumstances Judgment Tasks Performances Arise Ambiguous Efficacy Self Efficacy Discrepancies Discrepancies Between

Author:Albert Bandura

“To the extent that children with similar characteristics achieve comparable performance levels, using the performances of similar peers is likely to yield more accurate self-appraisal than using the accomplishments of dissimilar peers”

Children Self Levels Achieve Performances Accomplishment Characteristics Yield Accurate Peers Self Efficacy Appraisal

Book:Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory

Source: Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory

“You have to overcome enormous self-consciousness, but nudity is about the strongest thing you can do in an acting performance. It's the most unsettling or the most comic or the most sexual.”

Self Can Do Acting Consciousness Performances Overcoming Enormous Comic Strongest Nudity Self Consciousness

Author:John Lithgow

“To our real, naked selves there is not a thing on earth or in heaven worth dying for. It is only when we see ourselves as actors in a staged (and therefore unreal) performance that death loses its frightfulness and finality and becomes an act of make-believe and a theatrical gesture. It is one of the main tasks of a real leader to mask the grim reality of dying and killing by evoking in his followers the illusion that they are participating in a grandiose spectacle, a solemn or lighthearted dramatic performance.”

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“The gospel shows us that our spiritual problem lies not only in failing to obey God, but also in relying on our obedience to make us fully acceptable to God, ourselves and others. Every kind of character flaw comes from this natural impulse to be our own saviour through our own performance and achievement. On the one hand, proud and disdainful personalities come from basing your identity on your performance and thinking you are succeeding. But on the other hand, discouraged and self loathing personalities also come from basing your identity on your performance and thinking you are failing.”

“I have a great interest in Victorian musical & cabaret performances and Weimar artists so the references are there, to Cabaret and also All That Jazz and other films where, where there's a kind of (influential German playwright Bertolt) Brecht-ian approach, almost to the character standing outside of himself or, in this case, he's "self-séance-ing."”

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Author:Andy Serkis

“The nice thing about live performance is that I've never, ever been let down. Partly I'm lucky that my audience self-selects itself. Generally they know what they're in for, and generally we all just like each other and get along. But I always find one or two or a dozen really interesting people in the audience who make the show different. And that's one of the things I really like about performing.”

People Knows Two Different Self Shows Interesting Audience Nice Lucky Performances Performing Dozen Really Interesting Nice Things Let Down Live Performance

Author:John Hodgman

“As buoyancy is not contrary to other characteristics of leadership, including decisiveness, accountability and performance standards, I don't ever think it can be self-defeating.”

Thinking Self Standards Performances Including Contrary Characteristics Accountability Decisiveness Buoyancy

Author:Kevin Allen

“If you emote in your performances, people feel connected to you as an emotional person, because that's how we communicate. That doesn't mean people know you. At a certain point, I think you have to just be your own self.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Feels Mean Persons Self Certain Emotional Performances Communicate Connected Mean People Emote Emotional Person

Author:Patricia Arquette

“Home gigs can be hard because it's an odd collision. More than anything, I feel self-conscious when my family are in the audience. I'm doing this job which is not quite acting - part of it is me, part performance. You're presenting a cartoon of yourself to people who know you as a line-drawing.”

People Knows Feels Self Hard Home Jobs Lines Acting Audience Conscious My Family Performances Drawing Odd Cartoon Gigs Self Conscious Presenting Collision

Author:Dylan Moran

“I like the detail work of telling a story in small pieces, as is done in movie-making, and also the long leap of faith needed to see a theatre performance through each night. Both require focus and self-discipline.”

Long Self Done Stories Night Focus Pieces Needed Discipline Performances Details Theatre Leap Self Discipline Leap Of Faith Small Pieces Movie Making

Author:Viggo Mortensen

“There are these rare moments when musicians together touch something sweeter than they've ever found before in rehearsals or performance, beyond the merely collaborative or technically proficient, when their expression becomes as easy and graceful as friendship or love. This is when they give us a glimpse of what we might be, of our best selves, and of an impossible world in which you give everything to others, but lose nothing of yourself.”

World Giving Self Moments Might Together Found Easy Loses Impossible Expression Musician Performances Glimpse Rehearsal Best Self Rare Moments

Author:Ian Mcewan

“The constant reprimands made me hyperconscious of my own performance, and so instead of getting rid of self, I had become embedded in the egoism I was supposed to transcend. Now I was beginning to understand that a silence that is not clamorous with vexation and worried self-regard can become part of the texture of your mind, can seep into you, moment by moment, and gradually change you.”

Mind Made Self Moments My Own Silence Performances Regard Constant Worried Texture Egoism Embedded Vexation

Author:Karen Armstrong

“Do you have agendas for your children that are more important than the children themselves? Lost in the shuffle of uniforms, practices, games, recitals, and performances can be the creative and joyful soul of your child. Watch and listen carefully. Do they have time to daydream? From their dreams will emerge the practices and activities that will make self-discipline as natural as breathing.”

“Skill in any performance whether it be in sports in playing the piano in conversation or in selling merchandise consists not in painfully and consciously thinking out each action as it is performed but in relaxing and letting the job do itself through you. Creative performance is spontaneous and ‘natural’ as opposed to self-conscious and studied.”

Thinking Self Action Jobs Sports Natural Creative Skills Conversation Conscious Performances Selling Piano Spontaneous Self Conscious Merchandise Cybernetics Psycho Cybernetics

Book:Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded

Source: Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded

“And in situations where a man and a woman each receive negative feedback, the woman's self-confidence and self-esteem drop to a much greater degree. The internalization of failure and the insecurity it breeds hurt future performance, so this pattern has serious long-term consequences.”

Source: Lean In for Graduates

“Of government, at least in democratic states, it may be said briefly that it is an agency engaged wholesale, and as a matter of solemn duty, in the performance of acts which all self-respecting individuals refrain from as a matter of common decency.”

May Said Self Matter States Government Individual Freedom Common Democracy Duty Performances Democratic Engaged Agency Decency Solemn Refrain Wholesale Common Decency

Author:H. L. Mencken

“Ballet dancers are a self-chosen elite. To survive and surmount years of disciplinary preparation and seasons of even more arduous performance requires rigid determination and almost mindless self-abnegation. One other factor is difficult to predetermine: without a certain admixture of hysteria - sometimes masking as self-obsession, sometimes even counterfeiting incipient madness - performers, at once acrobats, artists, and animals, make little public impression.”

Source: Four Centuries of Ballet: Fifty Masterworks

“Yoga, an ancient but perfect science, deals with the evolution of humanity. This evolution includes all aspects of one's being, from bodily health to self realization. Yoga means union - the union of body with consciousness and consciousness with the soul. Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day to day life and endows skill in the performance of one's actions.”

“A self-reinforcing upward spiral: performance stimulating pride stimulating performance.”

Self Pride Performances Teamwork Team Building Spirals Team Work Team Working

Author:Rosabeth Moss Kanter

“A code of ethics cannot be developed overnight by edict or official pronouncement. It is developed by years of practice and performance of duty according to high ethical standards. It must be self-policing. Without such a code, a professional soldier or a group soon loses identity and effectiveness. Once we know our job, have a genuine code of ethics, and maintain unquestioned personal integrity, we have met the first and most demanding challenge of leadership.”

“Since the birth of our nation, the steady performance of the Marine Corps in fighting America's battles has made it the very symbol of military excellence. The Corps has come to be recognized worldwide as an elite force of fighting men, renowned for their physical endurance, for their high level of obedience, and for the fierce pride they take, as individuals, in the capacity for self discipline.”

“Evidence is conclusive that your self-talk has a direct bearing on your performance.”

Self Basketball Evidence Direct Performances Self Talk

Book:Over the Top: Moving from Survival to Stability, from Stability to Success, from Success to Significance

Source: Over the Top: Moving from Survival to Stability, from Stability to Success, from Success to Significance

“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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