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“I think innovation as a discipline needs to go back and get rethought and revived. There are so many models to talk about innovation, there are so many typologies of innovation, and you have to find a good innovation metric that truly captures the innovation performance of a company.”

Thinking Needs Company Discipline Models Performances Innovation Capture Metrics Typology

Author:Indra Nooyi

“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.”

Thinking Needs Children Remember Actors Directors Performances Tricks Child Actors

Author:Asia Argento

“I think the gains to be achieved by a combination of reforms and labor market adjustments are going to be more permanent and will provide a basis for reducing unemployment and improving expert performance and sustaining growth in a way that is more sound and more permanent.”

Thinking Way Sound Growth Gains Labor Performances Bases Reform Combination Permanent Improving Unemployment Reducing Adjustment Sustaining

Author:Lucas Papademos

“But if you want to be a songwriter-based musician, whether you play punk or rock or country or jazz, whatever, you have to work on your songwriting and you have to work on being able to play in front of people, I think. That performance is how you create the groundwork for a lasting career.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Country Play Able Careers Rocks Fronts Musician Performances Jazz Lasting Songwriting Punk Songwriters Groundwork

Author:Amy Ray

“I would love to document the Roots; I think they have an interesting story. I have a curiosity about them. Their musicality and their live performances I think would be great, and I have a feeling that there are stories behind each one of them.”

Thinking Stories Feelings Would Be Interesting Behinds Roots Performances Curiosity Documents Live Performance Interesting Stories Musicality

Author:Michael Rapaport

“If people want to criticize a performance, that I understand. I think that's important.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Important Performances Criticize

Author:Juno Temple

“I made many studio albums and I think the danger of studio recording is that if you do not watch out, you come out with a perfectly sterile performance.”

Ifs Thinking Made Watches Danger Performances Albums Studios

Author:Chuck Mangione

“That’s the secret to performance: conviction. The right note played tentatively still misses its mark, but play boldly and no one will question you. If one believes there is truth in art – and I do – then it’s troubling how similar the skill of performing is to lying. Maybe lying is itself a kind of art. I think about that more than I should.”

Ifs Thinking Should Believe Kind Art Stills Play Lying Secret Missing Skills Performances Mark Notes Conviction Performing

Book:Seraphina

Source: Seraphina

“A religious approach to marriage is the idea that if we work hard enough at something, we can earn the acceptance, approval, and life we think we deserve because of our obedient performance.”

Ifs Thinking Ideas Hard Enough Religious Acceptance Hard Work Approach Deserve Performances Approval Obedient

Author:Tullian Tchividjian

“In the summer after sixth grade, I took a class at St. Robert Bellarmine. My first role, I was the villain in a play, and I forgot all my lines. I think I cried my way through the performance.”

Thinking Way Firsts Play Lines Class Roles Summer Performances My Way Grades Villain Cried Sixth Grade

Author:Nicholas D'Agosto

“I think we can rule out 'mixed brain dominance' as a cause of your poor performance at school, Charlie Brown" "Have you ruled out stupidity?" "Peanuts", Charles M”

Thinking School Causes Poor Brain Performances Stupidity Brown Charlie Dominance Peanuts Poor Performance

Author:Charles M. Schulz

“I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.”

People Thinking Art Made Stills Facts Difficult Elements Performances Made It Theatrical Performance Art

Author:Lady Gaga

“Money can extinguish intrinsic motivation, diminish performance, crush creativity, encourage unethical behavior, foster short-term thinking, and become addictive.”

Thinking Motivation Term Money Creativity Behavior Performances Crush Diminish Short Term Unethical Intrinsic Motivation Short Term Thinking

Author:Daniel H. Pink

“It's a joy to be up close to Derek Jacobi's work. Alas, we haven't worked very much, over the years, since we were at university together, but I don't think I've missed many of his great shows and performances.”

Thinking Years Shows Together Joy Havens Performances University Alas

Author:Ian Mckellen

“That's really good for an actor - to like the people behind the scenes - because then you treat the camera differently. If you really like someone who's shooting you, you're more open. You're not defensive, you're more relaxed, and I think that translates into a more interesting, natural performance.”

People Ifs Thinking Actors Natural Interesting Behinds Scene Performances Treats Cameras Shooting Translate Relaxed Behind The Scenes

Author:Emile Hirsch

“I think it's more important to try and make a good film than give a good performance.”

Thinking Giving Trying Important Film Performances Good Films

Author:Paul Dano

“I am so excited to perform; I am so ready to perform; I love live performances! I think it's something so different from a track; live is just so unique and cool because the energy is just so different. I cannot wait to have live performances.”

Thinking Different Energy Waiting Ready Unique Performances Track Excited Live Performance

Author:Claudia Lee

“It has been said, and only half in jest, that a tough, professionally led union is a great force for improving management performance. It forces the manager to think about what he is doing and to be able to explain his actions and behavior.”

Thinking Has Beens Said Able Action Force Half Behavior Tough Performances Management Unions Managers Improving Jest

Author:Peter Drucker

“At Wal-Mart, a co-worker once advised me that, although I had a lot to learn, it was also important not to "know too much," or at least never to reveal one's full abilities to management, because "the more they think you can do, the more they'll use you and abuse you." My mentors in these matters were not lazy; they just understood that there are few or no rewards for heroic performance. The trick lies in figuring out how to budget your energy so there'll be some left over for the next day.”

“My preference is live performance, because you get the feedback. There's an energy. It's live theater. That's why I think actors like that.”

Thinking Actors Energy Performances Theater Preference Feedback Live Performance Live Theater

Author:Robin Williams

“Music and visual performance have to influence each other. Designers and musicians have to be the nexus of all things pop culture, so I think about designers when I'm making music.”

Thinking Culture Influence Musician All Things Performances Pops Designer Visuals Pop Culture Nexus

Author:Lady Gaga

“I love shooting with real things in the real world. I think it gives a level of drama, performance, and everything seems to rise to the occasion.”

Thinking World Giving Real Seems Levels Drama Performances Occasions Shooting Real World Real Things

Author:Tony Scott

“Thought and speech are of a thinking and speaking subject, and if the life of the latter depends on the performance of a superimposed function, it depends on fulfilling the requirements of this function thus it depends on those who control these requirements.”

Ifs Thinking Subjects Depends Speech Performances Function Latter Fulfilling Requirements

Book:One Dimensional Man

Source: One Dimensional Man

“I think Broadway is good for sharpening your skills. It's the best for really reaching the zenith of your talent. You go so far and reach the peak of it and you say, "Maybe this is the best performance I can do."”

Thinking I Can Can Do Talent Skills Performances Reaching Broadway Sharpening Best Performance Zenith

Author:Michael Jackson

“I always wanted to be a comedian and actor. I basically stumbled into the music medium, though. I'm OK, but that's about it. I like to think I'm good enough not to negatively affect the performance.”

Thinking Enough Wanted Actors Performances Mediums Comedian Good Enough

Author:Bo Burnham

“As soon as a thought or word becomes a tool, one can dispense with actually 'thinking' it, that is, with going through the logical acts involved in verbal formulation of it. As has been pointed out, often and correctly, the advantage of mathematics - the model of all neo-positivistic thinking - lies in just this 'intellectual economy.' Complicated logical operations are carried out without actual performance of the intellectual acts upon which the mathematical and logical symbols are based. ... Reason ... becomes a fetish, a magic entity that is accepted rather than intellectually experienced.”

“Remember that failure is part of the process of successful running. Performance is a roller coaster; to think otherwise is irrational and will cause you much stress and discouragement. Lighten up on yourself. Ups and downs can be expected. The performance of most serious runners fluctuates by the week. You win some, you lose some; some days you're hot, some days you're not. Don't fight with yourself when failure, the teacher, pays an unexpected visit. Open up to learning from it.”

“I've noticed a lot of people talking about the wealth of roles for powerful women in television lately. And when I look around the room at the women here and I think about the performances that I've watched this year, what I see actually are women who are sometimes powerful and sometimes not. Sometimes sexy and sometimes not. Sometimes honourable and sometimes not. And what I think is new is the wealth of roles for actual women in television and in film. That's what I think is revolutionary and evolutionary and it's what turning me on.”

People Thinking Years Looks Sometimes Film Wealth Rooms Powerful Talking Roles Television Performances Sexy Revolutionary Powerful Women People Talking

Author:Maggie Gyllenhaal

“When I first thought about becoming Jane Austen I had to forget about the fear, or at least choose something else to focus on because it was becoming paralysing, I couldn't focus. I felt frightened, not so much by her fans' reaction to my performance but that I would be playing someone who I think is a legend, who I respect and admire so much. I didn't want to fail, so I was putting a lot of pressure on myself.”

Thinking Want Firsts Would Be Felt Forget Focus Failing Fans Becoming Performances Pressure Reactions Admire Frightened Legends Jane Austen Playing Someone

Author:Anne Hathaway

“I think that if you grow up trying to be the best then you have to be competitive because the more you compete, the more someone is there that is a challenge and the more your performance improves.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Grows Challenges Growing Up Performances Being The Best

Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger

“Performance is made in the editing room, and I've come to see the truth in that - the idea that they say performances are usually made in the editing room because what you film is the raw material. I think just going through the process of saying, "Which take do we use? Why is that the take we want? I want that take can you edit again, I'm not sure that's the one, I think it's this one." And just because you go through that process, I think somehow it's made me sort of more open about the [actor's] possibilities.”

Thinking Want Made Ideas Use Film Actors Process Rooms Possibility Materials Performances Not Sure Editing Edits Raw Materials

Author:Ralph Fiennes

“Having gone through editing process, I can see that in actor's faces there's point where they're not managing their performance and that's, I think, the best place to be. You've done the homework, you've learned the lines, at that point you just sort of let it out.”

Thinking I Can Done Faces Actors Process Lines Gone Performances Be You Editing Homework Best Place

Author:Ralph Fiennes

“My mind is in so many different places while we're shooting. Part of it is watching the performance, part of it is watching the camera, and part of it is thinking about the stuff that we have to get that day. It's always a pleasure watching, but you also take it for granted, when you're on the actual grind, making the show.”

Thinking Mind Different Shows Stuff Pleasure Performances Cameras Granted Shooting Grind Different Place

Author:Cary Fukunaga

“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

“One thing I'm most proud of, in my movies, is that I think the performances are super-strong, but that's not all me. I think part of it is casting appropriately.”

Thinking Strong One Thing Proud Performances Casting

Author:Josh Radnor

“My preference is live performance. Because you get the feedback. There's an energy. It's live theater. That's why I think actors like that. You know, musicians need it, comedians definitely need it. It doesn't matter what size and what club, whether it's 30 people in the club or 2,000 in a hall or a theater. It's live, it's symbiotic, you need it.”

People Thinking Knows Needs Matter Actors Energy Musician Performances Theater Size Clubs Comedian Halls Preference Feedback Live Performance Live Theater

Author:Robin Williams

“I do not think that anybody should get paid for lousy performance. I've said that for a long time. If you work hard and you do good, you get paid well.”

Ifs Thinking Should Wells Long Said Hard Hard Work Long Time Performances Paid

Author:Michael Bloomberg

“Runners are competitive folks. I think some might feel slighted they haven't got more recognition. I think they have a point. In running, you won't necessarily get noticed just for turning in good performances.”

Thinking Feels Might Running Havens Performances Folks Recognition Runners Slighted

Author:Dean Karnazes

“Of all intellectual friendships, none are so beautiful as those which subsist between old and ripe men and their younger brethren in science or literature or art. It is, by these private friendships, even more than by public performance, that the tradition of sound thinking and great doing is perpetuated from age to age.”

Thinking Men Art Age Beautiful Literature Sound Friendship Intellectual Tradition Performances Ripe Brethren

Book:The Intellectual Life

Source: The Intellectual Life

“I think we need to teach pleasure. What beautiful touch means. What reciprocity means. What being connected and what intimacy means. Boys get out there at a young age and the performance posturing is so great and ends up being hard and aggressive.”

Thinking Needs Mean Ends Hard Age Beautiful Young Pleasure Boys Teach Performances Connected Intimacy Aggressive Young Age Reciprocity Touch Me

Author:Eve Ensler

“For me, so much of my life has been this attempt to find my way back into my body. I tried various forms, from promiscuity, to eating disorders, to performance art. And I think it wasn't until I got cancer, where I was suddenly being pricked and ported and chemoed and operated on, that I suddenly just became body. I was just a body. And it was in that, in that finally landing in myself that I really discovered the world in my body.”

Thinking World Way Has Beens Art Body Form Eating Performances Cancer Various My Way Disorder Landing Eating Disorder Promiscuity Performance Art

Author:Eve Ensler

“I think people were not expecting us [with Robert Ben Garant] to, they were just like, "Well here come the writers," but we both were coming out of a sketch comedy background, so when we pitch a movie, we play every character in the film. You act it out, you perform it - you do a 10-minute performance of the movie.”

People Thinking Wells Play Character Film Comedy Minutes Performances Backgrounds Coming Out Expecting Sketch Comedy

Author:Thomas Lennon

“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

“Children, I always think, are just putting on a performance of being naive and not understanding anything. I have worked with children in films, and they're treated as adults and they just drop the pretense of being children.”

Thinking Children Film Understanding Adults Performances Treated Naive Pretense

Author:Wallace Shawn

“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

“I think people have different definitions of team unity. My definition is doing whatever it takes to win, what makes a great team; it's performance on the field, respect on the field.”

People Thinking Different Winning Team Fields Performances Unity Definitions Whatever It Takes Great Team

Author:Hope Solo

“I think performance art comes from a simple place of wanting to express things beyond just sound.”

Thinking Art Sound Simple Performances Performance Art

Author:Amanda Palmer

“There's no performance where I never have to think about setting up a phrase or making a technical adjustment while I'm performing.”

Thinking Performances Setting Settings Performing Phrases Adjustment

Author:Renee Fleming

“I enjoyed Jonathan Franzen's 'Freedom.' Would I make that into a film? I think it's better suited to television. That would very much be a dialogue and performance piece, and it would take some very skilful direction - but not my kind of directing. But I thought it was a real literary work.”

Thinking Kind Real Film Pieces Television Performances Dialogue Enjoyed Literary Works

Author:Peter Weir

“I like actors who don't have to think too hard about what they have to do to achieve their performance.”

Thinking Hard Actors Achieve Performances

Author:Michel Gondry

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