#performance

Politics with me isn't theater. It's performance art. Sometimes, for its own sake. ↗

— Roger Stone

#me #own #performance #performance art #politics

Music is about the performance. ↗

— Vanessa Mae

#music #performance

One of the really important things about the Olympics is, to enjoy yourself, you have to accept that it's different and feed off the enthusiasm of everyone and the inspiration and hopefully that will elevate your performance. ↗

— Bode Miller

#accept #different #elevate #enjoy #enthusiasm

When our hopes for performance are not completely met, realistic optimism involves accepting what cannot now be changed, rather than condemning or second-guessing ourselves. Focusing on the successful aspects of performance (even when the success is modest) promotes positive affect, reduces self-doubt, and helps to maintain motivation (e.g., McFarland & Ross, 1982).... Nevertheless, realistic optimism does not include or imply expectations that things will improve on their own. Wishful thinking of this sort typically has no reliable supporting evidence. Instead, the opportunity-seeking component of realistic optimism motivates efforts to improve future performances on the basis of what has been learned from past performances. ↗

— Sandra L. Schneider

#expectations #improvement #learning #optimism #performance

There's really no difference between what I do and what a male filmmaker might do. I mean we all try to make our days, we all try to give the best performances we can, we try to make our budget, we try to make the best movie we possibly can. ↗

— Kathryn Bigelow

#between #budget #days #difference #filmmaker

I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity, or exceptional performance by athletes and artists, we harbor a greater life than we know. ↗

— Jean Houston

#accounts #artists #athletes #beings #believe

I have a chef who makes sure that I'm getting the right amounts of carbs, proteins and fats throughout the day to keep me at my max performance level. ↗

— Barry Bonds

#chef #day #fats #getting #i

Before every performance I feel nervous. ↗

— Diego Boneta

#every #feel #i #i feel #nervous

I always thought I was a little shy, especially compared to my brother and my sister, but I guess I was always the kid doing performances in the front room. ↗

— Linda Cardellini

#brother #compared #doing #especially #front

There are all sorts of reasons why I don't do much work in the theatre, the main one being that after two performances I feel I've given all I can. I hate repetition, I really do. It's like asking a painter to paint he same picture every day of his life. ↗

— Peter Cushing

#asking #being #day #every #every day