#performance

I'm attracted to roles that are unpredictable, and if I can get my hands on something like that, I'm thrilled. I like performances where you don't know what's coming, moment to moment. ↗

— Timothy Olyphant

#coming #get #hands #i #i can

Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#arts #been #birth #dance #decline

I think the gains to be achieved by a combination of reforms and labor market adjustments are going to be more permanent and will provide a basis for reducing unemployment and improving export performance, and sustaining growth, in a way that is more sound and permanent. ↗

— Lucas Papademos

#basis #combination #export #gains #going

Even though I don't feel I need approval, it's still important to me to give a good performance. I'm hard on myself. ↗

— Michelle Pfeiffer

#even #feel #give #good #hard

Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#confidence #faithful #honesty #honor #live

Tomorrow night I’m giving a lecture on silence and invisibility. Don’t be surprised if I don’t show up.
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— Jarod Kintz

#invisible #lecture #performance-art #silence #silent

Find your authentic voice, become vulnerable, and then put yourself out there. ↗

— Meredith Brooks

#creativity #performance #art

When you step from the wings onto the stage you go from total blackness to a blinding hot glare. After a moment you adjust, but there is that moment. like being inside lightning. ↗

— Meg Howrey

#dance #performance #theatre #art

I consider that my best performance ever was as Peer Gynt. ↗

— Leo McKern

#consider #ever #i #peer #performance

A human being always acts and feels and performs in accordance with what he imagines to be true about himself and his environment...For imagination sets the goal ‘picture’ which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of ‘will,’ as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination. ↗

— Maxwell Maltz

#belief #determination #faith #goals #imagination