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“I think we can rule out 'mixed brain dominance' as a cause of your poor performance at school, Charlie Brown" "Have you ruled out stupidity?" "Peanuts", Charles M”
Charles M. Schulz
“I think my escape from the Siberian Transport was my most difficult performance. I was placed in the great vault usually assigned to political prisoners, and when the great door was shut, I had the hardest time of my life, perhaps, in releasing myself. But nevertheless, it took me 18 minutes to walk out, and face the dazed officials.”
Harry Houdini
“When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance it becomes literature. That intensity may be a matter of style, situation, character, emotional tone, or idea, or half a dozen other things. It may also be a perfection of control over the movement of a story similar to the control a great pitcher has over the ball.”
Raymond Chandler
“A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.”
Pat Riley
“An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment”
Elbert Hubbard
“Actors should be overheard, not listened to, and the audience is 50 percent of the performance.”
Shirley Booth
“Theater of cruelty means a theater difficult and cruel for myself first of all. And, on the level of performance, it is not the cruelty we can exercise upon each other by hacking at each other's bodies, carving up our personal anatomies, or, like Assyrian emperors, sending parcels of human ears, noses, or neatly detached nostrils through the mail, but the much more terrible and necessary cruelty which things can exercise against us. We are not free. And the sky can still fall on our heads. And the theater has been created to teach us that first of all.”
Antonin Artaud
“I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.”
John Lennon
“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
“All lovers swear more performance than they are able, and yet reserve an ability that they never perform; vowing more than the perfection of ten, and discharging less than the tenth part of one.”
William Shakespeare
