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“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

“When you lack interest in the case the job will very likely lack skill and diligence in the performance.”

Jobs Interest Cases Skills Performances Diligence

Book:The Portable Abraham Lincoln

Source: The Portable Abraham Lincoln

“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

“TVXQ is our respected sunbae. Their vocal skills are strong, and we've studied much of their performances and choreography.”

Strong Skills Performances Vocal Choreography Tvxq

Author:Taeyang

“A demanding performance challenge tends to create a Team. In any situation requiring a combination of multiple skills, experiences and judgments, a team inevitably gets better results than a collection of individuals. Teams provide the kind of responsiveness, speed, on-line customization and quality that is beyond the reach of individual performance.”

“The difference, generally speaking, between sportbike people and cruiser people is that sportbike people like performance skill and wear safety gear; cruisers like chrome, noise, and style. It's funny to me to separate them because I ride both. I prefer performance cruisers like the Honda Valkyrie I had or my Triumph Rocket III.”

People Differences Style Skills Performances Safety Noise Triumph Rockets Gears Chrome Honda

Author:Alonzo Bodden

“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.”

Needs Feels Focus Right Now Skills Conversation Performances Athletics

Author:Shawn Johnson

“I have a variety of ways that I make music, but I'm working with the Thingamajigs in a particular way, which is: They are bringing to me their performance skills and their unusual instruments, which I'm relishing. They're really beautiful. The other thing is improvisation - these players improvise and they do it very beautifully, as a matter of fact.”

Way Matter Facts Beautiful Player Particular Skills Performances Instruments Variety Unusual Improvisation Matter Of Fact Very Beautiful Really Beautiful

Author:Pauline Oliveros

“There are performances in which the people who have the best muscle skills and musical history may be on the stage, but it's not - like a Dead show is not like a usual sit-down performance; the audience does participate.”

People May Doe Shows Audience Stage Skills Performances Musical Muscles Usual

Author:Howard Rheingold

“We all have a vast number of areas in which we have no talent or skill and little chance of becoming even mediocre. In those areas a knowledge workers should not take on work, jobs and assignments. It takes far more energy to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence.”

Source: Get the Right Things Done: The Drucker Collection (6 Items)

“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”

Needs Giving Trying Real Asks Social Simple Teach Emotional Skills Anxiety Evidence Performances Shame Intimacy Assault Appearing Social Skills Acronyms

Author:Richard Rohr

“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

“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.”

“Like squirrels, the best in every business do what they have learned to do without questioning their abilities - they flat out trust their skills, which is why we call this high-performance state of mind the "Trusting Mindset."”

Mind States Sin Ability Business Skills Achievement Performances Mindset Flats State Of Mind Questioning Squirrels

Book:Overachievement: The Science of Working Less to Accomplish More

Source: Overachievement: The Science of Working Less to Accomplish More