Performance Quotes

“Pardon, gentles all, the flat unraised spirits that have dared on this unworthy scaffold to bring forth so great an object.”

“Praise us as we are tasted, allow us as we prove.”

“A great while ago the world begun,With hey, ho, the wind and the rain;But that's all one, our play is done,And we'll strive to please you every day.”

“He that plays the king shall be welcome- his Majesty shallhave tribute of me; the adventurous knight shall use his foil andtarget; the lover shall not sigh gratis; the humorous man shallend his part in peace; the clown shall make those laugh whoselungs are tickle o' th' sere; and the lady shall say her mindfreely, or the blank verse shall halt fort.”

“Promising is the very air o' th' time; it opens the eyes of expectation. Performance is ever duller for his act; and, but in the plainer and simpler kind of people, the deed of saying is quite out of use. To promise is most courtly and fashionable; performance is a kind of will or testament which argues a great sickness in his judgment that makes it.”

“A song is no song unless the circumstance is free and fine. If a singer sing from a sense of duty or from seeing no way to escape,I had rather have none. Those only can sleep who do not care to sleep; and those only write or speak best who do not too much respect the writing or the speaking.”

“Let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them.”

“Most dear actors, eat no onions nor garlic, for we are to utter sweet breath.”

“Performing on a stool, we've got a sight to make you drool, seven virgins and a mule, keep it cool, keep it cool.”

“I play for high stakes and given an audience - there is no act too daring or too noble.”

“It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.”

“Positive thinking will let you use the abilities, training and experience you have.”

“When your image improves, your performance improves.”

“The way you see your future determines your thinking today. You're thinking today determines your performance today. Your performance in the today of your life determines your future.”

“It's true, spectacular preparation always precedes spectacular performance.”

“Evidence is conclusive that your self-talk has a direct bearing on your performance.”

“The way you see yourself today will affect your performance today.”

“Your input determines your outlook. Your outlook determines your output, and your output determines your future.”

“If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.”

“Oh! it offends me to the soul to hear a robust periwig-pated fellow, tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings.”

“When your confidence goes up, your competence goes up the same time.”

“As you awaken you go beyond the need to perform and achieve when you go beyond it, you begin to develop an increased susceptibility to the love extended by others as well as the uncontrollable urge to extend it. Love becomes what you are.”

“When I discipline myself to eat properly, live morally, exercise regularly, grow mentally and spiritually, and not put any drugs or alcohol in my body, I have given myself the freedom to be at my best, perform at my best, and reap all the rewards that go along with it.”

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

“All promise outruns performance.”