Whenever there were parties, I wasn't invited because I began to be like that character. In a way, that contributed to the success of the performance.
F. Murray Abraham

Even people that know Johnny Cash's music really well and know that he was married don't really know that much about June Carter. So finding out about her really helped to inform my performance and to bring her to the front in a way that she has never been before.
Reese Witherspoon

I like the energy of live performance.
Sandra Bernhard

Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.
William O. Douglas

Past performance speaks a tremendous amount about one's ability and likelihood for success.
Mark Spitz

In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.
Harold S. Geneen

Performance is your reality. Forget everything else.
Harold S. Geneen

The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and by your everyday attitude that you are wholeheartedly supporting them.
Harold S. Geneen

I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises - but only performance is reality.
Harold S. Geneen

It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.
Harold S. Geneen

Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away.
Harold S. Geneen

It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
Harold S. Geneen

So what this is is us, our personalities refined down on to a stage performance. In other words, the way we play is the end product of the way we live - we live in the cities, you see.
Alice Cooper

Music is a performance and needs the audience.
Michael Tippett

Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious.
Georg Simmel

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

That's how you get a performance - they put trust in you.
Richard Donner

And one of our points of continuing conversation with our trading partners is the urgency of their taking steps to remove barriers to their improved growth performance.
John W. Snow

I think it hurt my performance because I stopped being me. That won't ever happen again.
Christopher Darden

Reading should be a repeat performance.
John Barton