Perform Quotes

#1. I was obsessed with X-Men as a kid, and I would have to go and play every last one of them. My sister was obsessed with Barbies. So we would create these X-Men-Barbie combos and perform weird musicals where they interacted with each other.

Jake Epstein

#2. Education from the lowest to the highest form must have for its object the training of the individual so that, in seeking the fullest satisfaction of his own nature, he will harmoniously perform his function as a member of a corporate society.

Charles A. Beard

#3. We do things with language, produce effects with language, and we do things to language, but language is also the thing that we do. Language is a name for our doing: both "what" we do (the name for the action that we characteristically perform) and that which we effect, the act and its consequences.

Judith Butler

#4. Seeing Jennifer Holliday from 'Dreamgirls' perform on the Tony Awards telecast and later discovering Barbra Streisand by listening to her albums at the Carnegie Library in Pittsburgh really changed everything for me.

Billy Porter

#5. In the hierarchy of man's activities, eating was the lowest. Eating had become the object of a cult, but in fact it was but the preliminary to other, utterly contemptible motions. It occurred to him that he wanted to perform one of these too.

Elias Canetti

#6. The glory of sport is witnessing a well-coached team perform as a single unit, striving for a common goal and ultimately bringing distinction to the jersey the players represent.

Dick Vitale

#7. But, in fairness to them, too, the popular song per se is really a pretty shallow medium to perform in.

Mel Torme

#8. A week after my drugs ran out, I left my bed to perform at the college, deciding at the last minute to skip both the doughnut toss and the march of the headless plush toys. Instead, I just heated up a skillet of plastic soldiers, poured a milkshake over my head and called it a night.

David Sedaris

#9. I think I've always had the abilities, but the object has been to perform as well as I can.

Steve McNair

#10. Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow, - attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia.

Samuel Johnson

#11. Think of every audition as a chance to perform and you will have fun doing it.

Erica Schroeder

#12. Great enterprises usually promise vastly more than they perform.

Mark Twain

#13. I get really motivated when I put on the India jersey. It is a responsibility, so I want to perform in the best way I can.

Virat Kohli

#14. One of the best ways to change is to act as if you are the person you want to become. When you behave as if you are a different person, you change on a very basic level - even your physiology changes. When actors and actresses perform, their body chemistry is altered by the roles they play.

Bernie Siegel

#15. I never performed on drugs. That'd be stupid. It's the same thing with athletes. They can't perform when they have cocaine problems.

Robin Williams

#16. I love having the opportunity to perform, and I hate not being given the opportunity to perform.

Christie Laing

#17. My impulse is to perform for men
I obey their dreams

Neil Mach

#18. It is far more probable that our senses should deceive us, than that an old woman should be carried up a chimney on a broom stick; and that it is far less astonishing that witnesses should lie, than that witches should perform the acts that were alleged.

Michel De Montaigne

#19. I have horrible stage fright - you know how you go through the bi-polar stage fright thing? Then you go on drugs to get over the stage fright and perform, but then you're not funny at all.

Roseanne Barr

#20. Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best.

Michael Johnson

#21. All the time I was writing hit songs with my partner David Porter, I always had the yen to perform. Sure did. And when the opportunity came, I took it. The first album, 'Presenting Isaac Hayes,' didn't do so hot, but it was like a prelude for what was to come.

Isaac Hayes

#22. I find that it is useless to worry about things I can't control and I can't control how many people come out tonight. All I can do is focus on writing the best songs I can write and performing the best I can perform.

Corey Smith

#23. There's nothing worse than a good video and good song, and you see a band and hate them because they can't perform. That's wack.

Chuck D

#24. I have friends that I have made through Twitter or things like that, but they're all verified as real people - I've either seen them perform, or we're mutual fans of each other, something like that. I don't have any authentic, 'Catfish'-worthy stories.

Katie Featherston

#25. I always wanted to perform in some capacity since I was a kid - I was a ballerina, then a singer before acting.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

#26. Most of the time, economic data is fairly benign. I don't wish to imply it is meaningless, but it is not a driver of stock markets. Indeed, the correlation between economic noise and how equity markets perform has been wildly overemphasized.

Barry Ritholtz

#27. I just to put out the best records I can and perform the best I can.

Dave Lombardo

#28. The way I perform or the setup is always same - just me and a microphone and the text - and they usually have some relation of how physical that stack becomes. When I'm editing it together, the density of the papers is an indicator to be like, "You need to stop."

Sue Tompkins

#29. I actually got to perform for Queen Elizabeth, and I got to meet her after the show. She said she thought my performance was beautiful and I got to shake her hand and it was just an incredible moment.

Jake Shimabukuro

#30. Don't join an easy crowd; you won't grow. Go where the expectations and the demands to perform are high.

Jim Rohn

#31. Being a comedian, you're under pressure. You have to deal with stress and pressure to perform - to deal with pressure without stress.

Al Franken

#32. Sometimes I would bring some of my music to the school and perform on the playground, and they'd think, "There goes Patrick, trying to entertain everyone as usual."

Tinie Tempah

#33. Poetry is not a silent art. The poem must perform, unaided, in its reader's head.

Christopher Logue

#34. Most warriors only perform tricks. The way of the warrior is filled with soul and feeling

Miyamoto Musashi

#35. I'm making a record that's half stripped down acoustic which is the way I perform a lot and half of it is very produced. It's really hard to keep music simple but I was trying to keep it simple and focus on one or two instruments and vocals.

Lisa Loeb

#36. There is definitely a pressure for funny people to be funny. People want them to perform all the time.

Marsha Thomason

#37. All of us perform better and more willingly when we know why we're doing what we have been told or asked to do.

Zig Ziglar

#38. I've been driving in the city for years because, as a stand-up in N.Y.C., you can perform at more comedy clubs a night if you have a car. Getting from club to club by subway is too slow at night and too expensive by cab. So, many comics live far out from Manhattan and drive in every night.

Judah Friedlander

#39. When I heard the royal family wanted to have me perform in celebration of Prince William's marriage, I knew I had to give them a little something. 'Wet' is the perfect anthem for Prince William or any playa to get the club smokin'.

Snoop Dogg

#40. Gran, do you believe in angels?" She smiled. Her entire face lit up. "Why of course I do. Who else is going to help God perform all those miracles?

Brenda Pandos

#41. When you're rapping, you do have to perform to a certain degree, but not every rapper is necessarily a gifted actor.

Queen Latifah

#42. If your movies don't perform, they just stop calling you.

Matt Damon

#43. How much time is wasted today training children to perform a variety of skills that they not only will never use but would never even consider using?

Rysa Walker

#44. It is time to "perform," he thought. She would have to be "satisfied." He would have to "service" her. They would make efforts to "interact.

Don DeLillo

#45. Adults are tempted to produce and perform Christmas for their kids and their families, and they arrive at Christmas Day weary and disillusioned.

Ann Voskamp

#46. I don't perform. Seals perform.

Morrissey

#47. On 'Sullivan,' you sang live. Not only that, you sang with a 40-piece band. So you had instruments that weren't even on the original record! So this was when the rubber met the road - when you had to really learn how to perform. And it was for 10 or 12 million people. So that was a challenge.

Lesley Gore

#48. I never talk about what I'm writing about currently, never. It's private work on your own, no need or obligation to talk about it. Writers are made into performers these days, including myself, but there are some instances in which I will not perform.

Nadine Gordimer

#49. Mainly I was able to perform with music - I played the French horn, I would sing, and I was a drummer in the pipe band. So I think it was a way to show off.

Ewan McGregor

#50. I rendezvous with the long wire and perform the 'torero walk', gliding my feet, holding the pole away from my body, head high.

Philippe Petit

#51. If one knows the truth that all that one gives to others is giving only to oneself, who indeed will not be a virtuous person and perform the kind act of giving to others? Since everyone is one's own Self, whoever does whatever to whomever is doing it only to himself.

Ramana Maharishi

#52. Whatever you determine to be right, with diligence endeavour to perform.

Xenophon

#53. Ever since I left Greece more than two decades ago, it has been my dream to return and perform at the Acropolis. This project took more than a year and a half to plan and accomplish, and I would like to thank my band and crew and the scores of people involved in helping my dream become a reality.

Yanni

#54. I have seen apes only at the fair, they must perform tricks, are chained up, a bitter fate, no human has one so hard

Alfred Doblin

#55. We have always been thinking about different ways to perform electronic music, i.e. music made with machines.

Thomas Bangalter

#56. As women, we often think we have to be all things to all people, all at the same time. As a wife, mother, actress and businesswoman, I definitely feel the pressure to perform well in all areas.

Niecy Nash

#57. Latinos are very passionate, and they perform a lot, and look at me, I'm talking with my hands, and this is just my normal self, so it kind of allows me to be who I am and not dumb it down.

Genesis Rodriguez

#58. No one has yet determined the power of the human species ... what it may
perform by instinct, and what it may accomplish with rational determination.

Brian Herbert

#59. I am a duke, you know. If I can't perform a miracle here and there I might as well be a butler in expesive clothes." He brushed at the sleeve of his well-tailored brown coat. "And butlers don't get to dance with attractive women.

Suzanne Enoch

#60. You come to the master only in deep humbleness, because learning is possible only in humbleness. You have come to surrender, not to perform, not to manipulate, not to impress.

Rajneesh

#61. I am blessed to perform in the studio and on the concert stage.

Jodi Benson

#62. Those who believe in destiny and those who drift without such beliefs are alike the worst among men; only those who act and perform what is right for their station in life are worthy of praise. Man

R.K. Narayan

#63. Even dumb objects have their destiny. Rarely given a second thought, they perform their unconsidered duty day by day until their moment arrives and everything seems to hang on their location.

Lindsay Clarke

#64. What is the source of power of musicians who are financially browbeaten, most of whom work for minimum wage or less? Musicians who cannot even afford to buy tickets to operas or concerts in which they themselves perform?

Itay Talgam

#65. Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualification.

Oscar Wilde

#66. Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process.

Lionel Trilling

#67. Your faith will perform miracles, especially when you get your hands and feet involved.

Spencer W. Kimball

#68. When success is one thought away, think it.
When success is one word away, speak it.
When success is one deed away, perform it.
When success is one step away, take it.
When success is one moment away, seize it.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#69. Chores are easier if forethought is given to them and they are looked upon as little pleasures to perform instead of inconveniences that steal time and try the patience.

Richard Proenneke

#70. We in the Philippines know we have to perform our own role in terms of promoting peace in the world. We are actually members of the U.N. peacekeeping forces in many areas.

Benigno Aquino III

#71. The visionary is the one who brings his or her voice into the world and who refuses to edit, rehearse, perform, or hide. It is the visionary who knows that the power of creativity is aligned with authenticity.

Angeles Arrien

#72. Chiropractic care is an important part of keeping me in the best condition so I can perform at an optimal level.

Perdita Felicien

#73. How can I have my 15 minutes of fame when open mics only allow you to perform for 10 minutes.

R.K. Cowles

#74. The greatest miracle that the Almighty could perform would be to make a bad man happy, even in heaven; he must unparadise that blessed place to accomplish it. In its primary signification, all vice
that is, all excess
brings its own punishment even here.

Charles Caleb Colton

#75. The street to obscurity is paved with athletes who can perform great feats before friendly crowds.

George Allen, Sr.

#76. Chakras are mystical energy centers that exist within the human aura. Tremendous occult power resides in a person's chakras. Siddha masters draw upon that power during meditation, store it within themselves, and later use it to perform miracles.

Frederick Lenz

#77. It seems to me that education has a two-fold function to perform in the life of man and in society: the one is utility and the other is culture. Education must enable a man to become more efficient, to achieve with increasing facility the ligitimate goals of his life.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#78. I never go perform somewhere alone. I've done that since day one. I've always taken other comics with me.

Gabriel Iglesias

#79. The Dunne kids don't perform hugs well.

Gillian Flynn

#80. I come from the tradition of a big Irish family that loves to sing. I love to perform.

Robbie Williams

#81. I always say that I was dancing and acting in the belly. I feel like it's something I was born with and inspired by my family since I grew up backstage, watching them perform. I guess it was just a natural path for me.

Ksenia Solo

#82. There's this index that tallies up how much your movies have made, and if they haven't grossed a certain amount, then you're not bankable. I know I'm not Will Smith but, you know, my ranking's pretty low. The only studio picture I've done is 'Zodiac,' and that didn't perform that well.

Chloe Sevigny

#83. If you would be holy, instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will be imputed to you.

Baron De Montesquieu

#84. I feel I have proved myself just as much as everybody else does. I usually don't think about the past too much. I just try to perform the routines I have been practicing.

Jordyn Wieber

#85. Eating well was something I learned as I started to be successful and had to travel and perform concerts, which are an intense cardio workout.

Curtis Jackson

#86. Ice shows give us the opportunity to forget ourselves and just perform. They are amazing opportunities to be in front of audience to try out new material, to show new costuming. It's an incredible opportunity to do what we do without the stress of worrying about what a judge is going to say.

Johnny Weir

#87. All trades, arts, and handiwork have gained by division of labor, namely, when, instead of one man doing everything, each confines himself to a certain kind of work distinct from others in the treatment it requires, so as to be able to perform it with greater facility and in the greatest perfection.

Immanuel Kant

#88. If you sing beautifully about nothing, no one will listen. If you sing badly about great stuff, no one will listen. Ideas are everywhere, but my theory is that a writer doesn't just think of an idea: they perform them.

Patrick Ness

#89. Learn about the key developer tasks that you will need to perform when developing a Windows Store business app. Included are tasks for pages, touch, validation, application data, tiles, search, performance, testing, extended splash screens, incremental loading, and the Prism libraries.

Anonymous

#90. Think about multicellularity on this Earth. Every living thing originally came from bacteria. So, who do you think made up the rules for how to perform collective behaviors? It had to be the bacteria.

Bonnie Bassler

#91. Because I'm so much in the spotlight, people lose sight of why I'm in the industry. In fact, I'm doing all this because I love to act. I love to perform, to sing.

Lindsay Lohan

#92. Secretly, I'm in awe of Broadway performers. I would love to perform at that level. I love the exchange with the audience. I love being able to sing and dance to express your emotions and the community and friendships that are formed when working on a theater piece.

Brianna Brown

#93. You might be feeling sick or a little down, but the second you hit the stage and hear the crowd, you're ready to perform. That's what a true performer is.

Mark McGrath

#94. we're willing to perform ultrasounds on rhinos

Elizabeth Kolbert

#95. I could always open shows, perform through the middle, and close shows.

Ethel Waters

#96. I was trying to perform as best as possible. I was a boy at the time, but worked well with the sickle.

Mikhail Kalashnikov

#97. Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.

Lisa Alther

#98. Here in America, every single actor, since they were little boys, they sing and dance and perform like angels. We don't do that. We are actors who work in a theater in very classic performances or plays.

Javier Camara

#99. Trust is a function of both character and competence. Of course you can't trust someone who lacks integrity, but if someone is honest but they can't perform, you're not going to trust them either. You won't trust them to get the job done.

Stephen Covey

#100. When you fall; it's not the ending; It's the next chance to perform better than the last one

Harishankar Kaushik