Top 100 Good Performance Quotes
#1. It's no wonder we are so messed up when it comes to walking with God. In nearly every aspect of our existence, good performance equals good reward. Except not with him. A good thing turns bad when we perform to earn God's acceptance rather than simply receive it like a gift.
Emily P. Freeman
#2. The only really good performance is the one where you make yourself vulnerable, while pushing beyond your familiar comfort zone.
Kim Gordon
#3. I've always wanted to stay involved with young people. I never bought into the idea that entertainers owe nothing to their audience except a good performance.
Pat Boone
#4. One of the advantages of shooting digitally was that we had a lot of time. When you shoot, even if you do a good performance, it may get lost in the editing room. It's just one more way that a potentially good film might go astray.
William Mapother
#5. Utilizing a nonlinear approach and companion competencies makes it possible for people to move from good performance to great.
John H. Zenger
#6. The techniques of different directors are very different, and people have different ways of expressing ideas in film. I'm happiest when working with a director as I would be if I were an actor. I'm wanting to provide a really good performance.
Howard Shore
#7. That's a wonderful thing, because one of the primary qualities of a good performance is honesty.
Roberta Flack
#8. If you have a great part, you have the opportunity to give a good performance. The greatest actors get the best parts, and the best parts make the greatest actors. There are plenty of people who are as talented, who just never got the part.
Tom Hollander
#9. Even though I don't feel I need approval, it's still important to me to give a good performance. I'm hard on myself.
Michelle Pfeiffer
#10. Good performance is about what you take in, not what you put out.
Livingston Taylor
#11. If you give it good concentration, good energy, good heart and good performance, the song will play you.
Levon Helm
#12. I think the actors in 'Greystoke' were amazing. They had a really good performance coach called Peter Elliott who's, of his time, one of the greatest simian performance coaches for actors.
Andy Serkis
#13. The only thing you owe the public is a good performance.
Humphrey Bogart
#14. Strive for excellence in few things, rather than good performance in many.
Richard Koch
#15. Focusing on the negative often creates situations that demoralize people. When good performance is followed by a positive response, people naturally want to continue that behavior.
Kenneth H. Blanchard
#16. People look at me as some bruiser, but I want to entertain people. I want people to applaud. I want to be the cause of people being happy, their emotions changing, to tell me I did a good performance.
Mike Tyson
#17. You can lose in cinema too if you don't put on a good performance.
Eric Cantona
#18. Giving a good performance, giving it all is what it's all about. I love to perform.
Henry Rollins
#19. Nobody can give a good performance unless the authors and composers have written a good part, a fact which is often overlooked.
Judy Holliday
#20. I can speak to actors in their terms. Knowing I was an actor, they relax. You can have the best shot in the world - but, at the center of it, you still need a good performance.
Don Scardino
#21. What is a good performance? It lies in the hands and head of a performer ... the shortest way between two people is not a straight line.
Earle Brown
#22. I think it's more important to try and make a good film than give a good performance.
Paul Dano
#23. Good performance is about the capacity to focus and concentrate.
Betty Buckley
#24. I owe the public a good performance, the best I can give. We really bust our chops on 'CHiPs' but when I go home and get a weekend off, I want to spend it quietly, with my lady.
Larry Wilcox
#25. Whenever I did a good performance, my Dad and my uncles, who were rabid movie fans, took me to the movies. There began my underlying love affair with film.
Mel Torme
#26. Bad money drives out good.' That means poor performance will take over if good performance isn't recognized.
Tom Clancy
#27. An applause is not just the recognition of good performance, but its proof of being different than the crowd.
Amit Kalantri
#28. The passion that transforms life, and art, did not seem to be mine. But in all essentials, my life was a good performance.
Josephine Hart
#29. You'll never see a good performance out of me, in terms of a character, when the camera isn't rolling.
Brendan Fehr
#30. If you give a good performance, something that gets some feeling across to people, that's such a rare gift. It's underestimated at this point in history, when the music biz is inevitably turning into a kind of politics.
Iggy Pop
#31. There are loads of black actors.You can't say: I'm going to vote for him, he's not very good but he's black, [so] I'll vote for him. You've got to give a good performance.
Michael Caine
#32. I owe the public just one thing - a good performance.
Bob Gibson
#33. What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
#34. Ninety percent of a good performance of an actor is based on the material. If you've got the material there, you can ride it.
Justin Kirk
#35. All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.
Jack Bowman
#36. Hint: money flows into most funds after good performance, and goes out when bad performance follows.
John C. Bogle
#37. Strength and conditioning are the keys to good performance and longevity in gymnastics.
Suzanne Yoculan
#38. Catching people doing things right provides satisfaction and motivates good performance. But remember, give praise immediately, make it specific, and finally, encourage people to keep up the good work.
Kenneth H. Blanchard
#39. Endorsements are a reward for good performance on the field, and the commitments made after signing them need to be done.
Virat Kohli
#40. Art, if it is successful in the task of questioning reality, if it is good painting and not merely a performance of dexterity, will be an affirmation of God.
Patrick Swift
#41. Work is honorable. It is good therapy for most problems. It is the antidote for worry. It is the equalizer for deficiency of native endowment. Work makes it possible for the average to approach genius. What we may lack in aptitude, we can make up for in performance ...
J. Richard Clarke
#42. Sexualization is the performance of sexuality, the performance of sexiness. Girls are super good at that now.
Peggy Orenstein
#43. Good engineering is characterized by gradual, stepwise refinement of products that yields increased performance under given constraints and with given resources.
Niklaus Wirth
#45. Law is for the society; love is for the individual. Law is how you behave with others; love is how you behave with yourself. Love is an inner flowering; law is an outward performance. Because you live with people you have to be lawful, but that is not enough - good, but not enough.
Rajneesh
#46. It wasn't just about flashing lights and pinball machines blowing up and things like that. It was about using encores, bringing back the good songs and using techniques that I knew about from rock performance.
Pete Townshend
#47. I'm always going to judge somebody on their work ethic, and whether or not they made me feel something, or whether or not I felt they did a good job. To me, it's important to try to block anything personal out and look at the performance, in any field.
Nicolas Cage
#48. My individual power is limited. I want to use my high-profile way to wake people up to take action together to do good things. I can only awake them with my performance art and creativity.
Chen Guangbiao
#49. An announcer is only as good as yesterday's performance.
Curt Gowdy
#50. It's a good note for any young hopeful in this business to take: study up and make sure you are informed at all times because knowing how to anticipate someone's subtle nuances in a performance will only elevate your own art!
Tisha Campbell-Martin
#51. It's partly the Southernization of America, in that the Southern working-class version of redneck is becoming the national version, and it's good-natured, it has humor and, in some ways, it's a performance.
Robert Charles Wilson
#52. I don't get a rush from anything. I did music as hard as I could. Acting for me at least, is a far more restrained performance than music. It requires a lot of skill and discipline. I'm not any good at it but I enjoy trying to be good at it.
Henry Rollins
#53. I think when you have a good warm up you feel good about your performance. You know that you've trained so mentally you're in a better state.
Keauna McLaughlin
#54. I'd been used to this idea of destructive performance art instead of a slick, good-sounding show. So, I became frustrated as I felt I'd been doing the shows wrong. That sucked.
Erika M. Anderson
#55. To me, dance is so ethereal and elusive, so much of an illusion. After a performance, that's it. With vocals and music, you have good recordings.
Jamie Wyeth
#56. Technology is 50% of rock 'n' roll - the magic, the art, the performance. If you don't have good technicians and a strong road crew who are devoted and believe in you and protect you, you're totally naked.
Patti Smith
#57. I think you can really tell a good actor if you can put a camera on them and they can just talk and emote and react and you don't have to keep cutting away from them, because they are the language and the behavior. It's all a tour-de-force performance.
Sally Kirkland
#58. Although the outlook is clouded by a number of uncertainties, the central tendencies of the projections .. imply continued good economic performance in the United States.
Alan Greenspan
#59. Successful companies will almost always be described in terms of a clear strategy, good organization, strong corporate culture, and customer focus. But whether these things drive company performance, or whether they're mainly attributions based on performance, is a different matter.
Phil Rosenzweig
#60. People have said some really good things about my performance, and that's what I'm happy about, what I'm excited about. I was able to go out there, and like I said, I put my best foot forward.
Robert Griffin III
#61. The president's poking fun at himself over what goes down. I thought it was a good-natured performance. It made him look good. But he certainly doesn't disguise the record on weapons of mass destruction. And you feel like saying to people, Just get over it.
Brit Hume
#62. Good is somebody who delivered and allowed the company to overcome obstacles, without leaving a profound impact on its culture. Great is somebody who leads his company to achievements and performance and value that nobody was expecting it had.
Carlos Ghosn
#63. A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.
Jack Bowman
#64. If he be really and seriously seeking to live a good life, the first thing from which he will abstain will always be the use of animal food, because ... its use is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to the moral feeling - killing.
Leo Tolstoy
#65. If I can send one person home after a performance feeling better than when they arrived, then I've done my job, and I sleep good at night.
Cyrus Chestnut
#66. At the end, it's your movie and your performance that stands out. So if I am a good actor, and if am being part of good entertaining engaging films, audiences will like me.
Ranbir Kapoor
#68. It would seem that very few good things in life come from our accepting the present moment as it is. To become educated, we must be motivated to learn. To master a sport requires that we continually improve our performance and overcome our resistance to physical exertion. To
Sam Harris
#69. 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.
Bo Burnham
#70. I don't see a difference between playing a performance capture role and a live action role, they're just characters to me at the end of the day and I'm an actor who wants to explore those characters in fantastically written scripts. The only caveat is a good story is a good character.
Andy Serkis
#71. What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist's performance on whether or not they had a good seat?
Al Yankovic
#72. In the performance of a good action, we not only benefit ourselves, but we confer a blessing upon others.
Philip Sidney
#73. He shouldn't have resigned over that game. It was not a bad performance; in fact it was quite a good one for England. I would not have resigned under those circumstances.
Franz Beckenbauer
#74. One American in seven has no coverage, and one in three younger than sixty-five will lose coverage at some point in the next two years. These are people who aren't poor or old enough to qualify for government programs but whose jobs aren't good enough to provide benefits either.
Atul Gawande
#75. People appreciating my performance is good enough for me. I don't care much for awards and have never given it much thought. And anyway, I can't play the games people play to win awards.
Manisha Koirala
#76. I've been a good teacher for eleven years, and then they come up with this mandated testing crap? With the state pushing for performance, the Board of Ed would have been all over me once those test results came in! Me? Like it's my fault these kids can't pass a test?
Jo-Ann Lamon Reccoppa
#77. I go to the theatre expecting to have a good time. I want each play and performance to take me somewhere. Naturally, this doesn't always happen.
John Lahr
#78. We have a tendency to measure ourselves against the people around us. They become our point of reference. A good coach will evaluate your performance against your potential.
... if we are wise enough to listen, they will help us go further, faster.
Andy Stanley
#79. 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."
Michael Jackson
#80. Good acting is consistency of performance.
Jim Dale
#81. I tend to a lot of improvisational ranting, and that's fun. For me, stand-up has been, performance-wise, a really good outlet.
Michael Showalter
#82. It is hard to go beyond your public. If they are satisfied with cheap performance, you will not easily arrive at better. If they know what is good, and require it. you will aspire and burn until you achieve it. But from time to time, in history, men are born a whole age too soon.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#83. The analogies between science and art are very good as long as you are talking about the creation and the performance. The creation is certainly very analogous. The aesthetic pleasure of the craftsmanship of performance is also very strong in science.
Freeman Dyson
#84. You need someone who has a really good way of enabling trust in the cast and crew, or the cast particularly, to allow them the confidence to stretch themselves to get the performance that you're going to need to provide all of the emotional up and downs in the film.
Nicholas Sparks
#85. Classical stuff takes a lot of rehearsal time and preparation, but with stuff that involves improvisation, you can over-rehearse it and it gets stale. You don't want it to be too comfortable. In fact, a good sound check, a good rehearsal usually means a bad performance.
John Zorn
#86. I love live performance and have huge admiration for people who can really do it. It's the same with music: I'll play a record and think that I'm not really into country or ragga. But, if it's live and the musicians are good, I'll listen to pretty much anything.
Helen McCrory
#87. KISS, n. A word invented by the poets as a rhyme for "bliss." It is supposed to signify, in a general way, some kind of rite or ceremony appertaining to a good understanding; but the manner of its performance is unknown to this lexicographer.
Ambrose Bierce
#88. Performance enhancing drugs are banned in the Olympics. OK, we can swing with that. But performance 'debilitating' drugs should not be banned. Smoke a joint and win the 100 metres, fair play for you. That's pretty good. Unless someone's dangling a Mars bar off in the distance.
Eddie Izzard
#89. You can fix things with digital technology and there's a temptation to fix everything or make it perfect and what you're losing there is the human performance that may not be perfect but there may be magic in it. You can make it perfect but music doesn't sound good perfect for some reason.
Joe Walsh
#90. I'm not really good at fun-to-know, human interest stuff. We're not 'celebrities', whose life itself is a performance. Good or bad or ugly, we are our words. They're what people meet.
Terry Pratchett
#91. I think every good song tells a story, as ambiguous and vague as it may be. And if you know what a song is talking about, it can only help your performance.
David Cook
#92. Powerpoint presentations are a kind of theater, a kind of augmented stand-up. Too often it's a boring and tedious genre, and audiences are subjected to the bad as well as the good.
David Byrne
#93. 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
#94. A good athlete always mentally replays a competition over and over, even in victory, to see what might be done to improve the performance the next time.
Frank Shorter
#95. There is something about me that is collaborative, that wants to get the best performance out of somebody else or to hear something that somebody else has done that's good and to try and make it great.
Ryan Lewis
#96. (Guy) Pearce, as the hero, makes the mistake of trying to give a good and realistic performance. (Jeremy) Irons at least knows what kind of movie he's in, and hams it up accordingly.
Roger Ebert
#97. I uplift people and see the good in a bad situation. The worst is I'm very critical of myself. If I do a performance, I watch it 100 times afterwards and pick it apart.
Fleur East
#98. Sometimes abstraction and encapsulation are at odds with performance - although not nearly as often as many developers believe - but it is always a good practice first to make your code right, and then make it fast.
Brian Goetz
#99. I don't rehearse films as much as opera or theatre. When I began directing films I thought a long rehearsal was a good idea. Experience showed me that the best performance was often left in a rehearsal room.
Bruce Beresford
#100. It's very flattering to be remembered as a Bond girl with brains and not just for looking good in a bikini. I was a fan of Sophie Marceau in 'The World Is Not Enough.' I think her performance was very underrated.
Eva Green
