If you want to know how a manager is performing ask to see their data, really want to know... ask those that report to them.
Learn from the past, prepare for the future, and perform in the moment." (Moments: Making Your Life Count For What Matters Most, Mike Van Hoozer)
The most holy cannibalism you can perform is to eat the flesh and blood of sagacity, and by sharing it with other wisdom thirsty cannibals.
Live performance really terrifies me. I haven't done it, really, in years. I think that's why I retired from my brief career in stand-up.
People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.
I'm very self-conscious as an actor, with performances and things, and I don't like watching my own stuff.
As a performer you are being used to keep people watching so the commercial endorsements that support the network can be seen by as many people as possible.
I'm kind of shy, and I think that I take that out by performing in front of a lot of people. That's how I get out my shyness.
Performance-enhancing drugs are an illusion. I wish I had never gotten involved with steroids. It was wrong. It was stupid.
It's been a continuity right from the beginning - that longing to weave together perceptions, to affirm the richness of us as human beings both as performers and audience members.
Of all human inventions the organization, a machine constructed of people performing interdependent functions, is the most powerful.
Difficult times disrupt your conventional ways of thinking and push you to forge better habits of thought, performance and being.
Two, I actually learned a lot of things that served me very well when it came to repeating performances on stage, because it is a craft and you do need a technique for it.
A few performances have been left out of the various Woodstock soundtracks and film edits over the years, most notably The Grateful Dead.
When have you ever heard of a cantor or any artist turning anyone down when he is strongly urged to perform?
I continue to be very shy. I think a lot of actors and performers are really weird, shy people working it out onstage. I don't know why that is.
The Steve Allen Sunday night show had the right to two options after my first performance.
When you truly study top performers in any field, what sets them apart is not their physical skill; it is how they control their minds.
One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently.
I've been with certain stars; some are caring and pay attention to their fans and to their fellow performers and some are too busy. Elvis never seemed too busy.
When Peter Gabriel left, we obviously lost a very strong stage performer. Phil hasn't replaced him; Phil's done a different thing.
