#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.”

“You can't think and hit the ball at the same time.”

“Slump? I ain't in no slump... I just ain't hitting.”

“Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.”

“You cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with the way you see yourself.”

“With integrity you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity you will do the right thing, so you will have no guilt. With fear and guilt removed you are free to be and do your best.”

“Being relaxed, at peace with yourself, confident, emotionally neutral loose, and free-floating - these are the keys to successful performance in almost everything.”

“Your thinking today determines your performance today.”

“I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?”

“What difference does the uniform make? You don't hit with it.”

“A comedian can only last till he either takes himself serious or his audience takes him serious.”

“Sometimes our best is simply not enough.... We have to do what is required.”

“How can we know the dancer from the dance?”

“But a public oration is an escapade, a non-committal, an apology, a gag, and not a communication, not a speech, not a man.”

“The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness; a non performance of that which is pretended to be performed, at the same time that one is giving loud pledges of performance. The balking of the intellect, is comedy and it announces itself in the pleasant spasms we call laughter.”

“Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you-trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, the whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.”

“My father upon the Abbey stage, before him a raging crowd."This Land of Saints," and then as the applause died out,"Of plaster Saints;" his beautiful mischievous head thrown back.”

“Players and painted stage took all my love, And not those things that they were emblems of.”

“A single year's performance is of minor importance and, good or bad, should never be taken seriously.”

“We will prosper or suffer in controlled investments in relation to the operating performances of our businesses - we will not attempt to profit by playing various games in the securities markets.”

“It's the fellow who knows when to quit that the audience wants more of.”

“It is obvious that the performance of a stock last year or last month is no reason, per se, to either own it or to not own it now. It is obvious that an inability to "get even" in a security that has declined is of no importance. It is obvious that the inner warm glow that results from having held a winner last year is of no importance in making a decision as to whether it belongs in an optimum portfolio this year.”

“Imitation cannot go above its model.”

“Now must we sing and sing the best we can,But first you must be told your character:Convicted cowards all, by kindred slain.”

“But in my mind, I don't think there's any question Sidney Crosby is the best all-around player in the game. His hockey sense is so strong and so solid, combined with his God-gifted talent of being able to see the ice, see the entire picture in front of him. And, most importantly, I don't care how good you are, if you don't have a work ethic, it doesn't matter. There's no question that each and every game, he's one of the hardest-working guys on the ice. In my mind, he's the best player in the game today.”

“No matter who you are, we're creatures of habit. The better your habits are, the better they will be in pressure situations.”