In most cases, my favorite Jethro Tull songs will be determined by how I feel about them as live performance songs, not by the recorded identity. – Ian Anderson
The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance. – Jane Austen
Although ‘Mockingjay 2’ grew $650 million at the worldwide box office, its domestic performance fell short of our expectations. – Jon Feltheimer
No matter what position you’re in, if you are receiving poor feedback from clients, co-workers, or in performance evaluations, then that’s one of the clearest signs that you’re not cut out for the job, or it’s not right for you. – John Rampton
If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I don’t attribute an actor’s great success to their own individual performance when it’s something as collaborative as a movie. – Jesse Eisenberg
I rebelled by not getting straight A’s and not following the path that my elder sister did. She was valedictorian and is very exemplary in her way. I look a lot like her, so I just had to do the opposite. Not that I got bad grades, but I was all about performance and just finding any way that I could to be involved in any kind of production. – Jennifer Garner
One of the secret benefits of using remote workers is that the work itself becomes the yardstick to judge someone’s performance. – Jason Fried
Nothing feels worse than having to break the stage down before the performance, and I mean nothing. – John Mayer
Every human being must have boundaries in order to have successful relationships or a successful performance in life. – Henry Cloud
I was frustrated as a child when I had to use a vacuum. It had a screaming noise and the smell of stale dog and a lack of performance. – James Dyson
I’ve played Madison Square Garden and Jones Beach several times, but I personally don’t enjoy those larger venues. I much prefer theater or a performance space. – Jason Mraz
Don’t forget there are two sides to performing. Finding the truth, but you also have to be transparent enough for the audience to see it. How many times have you seen a performance and thought: ‘Well, it seems to be meaning a great deal to you but it ain’t coming across to me?’ It is to be shared. – John Hurt
All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That’s the difference between mere theater and performance art. – Jack Bowman
Puma was all about function and not at all about design. The founder of the company always believed functionality and performance were the only ingredients that could make Puma successful and design never mattered. – Jochen Zeitz
The form of computers has never been important, with speed and performance being the only things that mattered. – Jonathan Ive
In the days when corporate downsizing was all the rage, Wall Street took a lot of flak for judging companies too harshly and setting the bar for corporate performance so high that executives felt their only option was to slash payrolls. – James Surowiecki
It is by now beyond question that Elton John is a competent and classy entertainer. Few people who have achieved his popularity have succeeded in maintaining his standards for performance and professionalism. – Jon Landau
Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales. – John Perry Barlow
Whenever I’m waiting behind the stage, it’s kind of like my normal Jackie mode is me talking a lot, playing around, but superstar Jackie mode is me concentrating on making sure that this performance was going to be a great performance. – Jackie Evancho
Royalties are not how most writers or musicians make their living. Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales. – John Perry Barlow
I feel whatever an actor does on screen is something the actor ‘does,’ and what the director can do is to tell, talk or instruct. So, all the credit for an actor’s performance goes to the actor alone. – Imtiaz Ali
So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance. – Isadora Duncan
When the first big paycheque with ‘Dumb And Dumber’ hit, I went: ‘Gosh, I wonder if this will affect my performance. Will I do a take and think, was that worth $7 million?’ But that never happened. If anything, it made me rebel against that thing when people who get rich start playing it safe. – Jim Carrey
I come from the performance world, but the idea of a worship song is different. It’s useful music. – John Tesh
It is not a dreamlike state, but the somehow insulated state, that a great musician achieves in a great performance. He’s aware of where he is and what he’s doing, but his mind is on the playing of the instrument with an internal sense of rightness. – Arnold Palmer
Performing is just standing up there and doing something. Performance takes on an edge to it. It has a more dramatic context. – Alan King
You have to be a student of the game to be successful, and it’s promising when you can say that, with a world-record performance, I still have things to improve on! – Brittany Bowe
You, your employer and your plan’s investment managers fail to follow even the most basic rules of investing. You overtrade, chase performance, do not think long term. All of you – All Of You – have done a horrible job managing your retirement plans. – Barry Ritholtz
