#performance

I'll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there's some great comedy minds and performances. ↗

— Mel Brooks

#bad #bad taste #comedy #great #i

Instinct taught me 20 years ago to pace a song or a concert performance. That translates into pacing a story, pleasing a reading audience. ↗

— Jimmy Buffett

#audience #concert #instinct #into #me

The United States have fulfilled in good faith all their treaty stipulations with the Indian tribes, and have in every other instance insisted upon a like performance of their obligations. ↗

— Martin Van Buren

#faith #fulfilled #good #good faith #indian

If you go on stage with the wrong attitude, or something in your performance is off, you can lose an audience in the first minute. That first minute is crucial. ↗

— Allan Carr

#audience #crucial #first #go #lose

Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news. ↗

— John le Carre

#better #between #contemptuous #demonstrated #digest

For me rappers and dancers are poets and artists and often times the most interesting performances are given by them. ↗

— Ice Cube

#dancers #given #interesting #me #most

Comedians work great as actors because they're good under pressure. With a lot of actors, you have to make them feel like everything's going really well to get a good performance out of them. But, if you have a comedian on the set, you can tell them, 'Hey, you really are screwing this up,' and then they just get better. ↗

— Louis C. K.

#better #comedian #comedians #everything #feel

Imagine if you had baseball cards that showed all the performance stats for your people: batting averages, home runs, errors, ERAs, win/loss records. You could see what they did well and poorly and call on the right people to play the right positions in a very transparent way. ↗

— Ray Dalio

#baseball #batting #call #cards #could

Maintain 'baseball cards' and/or 'believability matrixes' for your people. Imagine if you had baseball cards that showed all the performance stats. You could see what they did well and poorly and call on the right people to play the right positions in a very transparent way. ↗

— Ray Dalio

#call #cards #could #did #had

They improve greatly, and sometimes I go and see the performances they do and I am consciously aware that there isn't enough work for the good dancers. ↗

— Siobhan Davies

#aware #consciously #dancers #enough #go