#performance

I've done scenes in films that I felt like the performance was better in certain takes, but they couldn't use them because it didn't match what the person was doing when they came around and the camera was on them. ↗

— David Morse

#because #better #came #camera #certain

Some directors cast you because they trust you to do the performance - but then they forget to direct you. ↗

— Samantha Morton

#cast #direct #directors #forget #performance

If you have stage fright, it never goes away. But then I wonder: is the key to that magical performance because of the fear? ↗

— Stevie Nicks

#because #fear #fright #goes #i

Mutual fund managers are trapped in this rather deadly vicious circle: the more successful they are, the more money flows into their mutual fund. Then, it is more difficult for them to beat the market averages or even to match their own past performance. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#beat #circle #deadly #difficult #even

New York State is upside down and backwards; high taxes and low performance. The New York State government was at one time a national model. Now, unfortunately, it's a national disgrace. Sometimes, the corruption in Albany could even make Boss Tweed blush. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

#backwards #blush #boss #corruption #could

Let us be clear: I take ten times more money for a concert than for an opera performance. ↗

— Placido Domingo

#concert #i #let us #money #more

Then certainly for a musician timing becomes something that is immediately accessible as a concept, because it's a necessity in ones everyday performance. ↗

— Robert Fripp

#because #becomes #certainly #concept #everyday

The strongest results were in Florida and Texas. In just one year in a Texas charter school, an average student gained 7 percentile points in math and 8 percentile points in reading, while Florida charter schools improved student performance by 6 percentile points. ↗

— Maggie Gallagher

#charter #charter schools #florida #gained #improved

In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality. ↗

— Harold S. Geneen

#explanations #only #performance #promises #reality

It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance. ↗

— Harold S. Geneen

#difficult #measure #more #much #performance