Performance Quotes (page 10)

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• life
• pain
• see

My greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live. Kanye West

• moving
• god
• wonder

God moves in mysterious ways. His wonders to performs William Cowper

• music
• food
• heart

Then the singing enveloped me. It was furry and resonant, coming from everyone's very heart. There was no sense of performance or judgment, only that the music was breath and food. Anne Lamott

• light
• film
• filming

I can't let in the light. It will destroy my performance like light destroys film James Dean

• mother
• courage
• consistency

Courage is the mother of all virtues because without it, you cannot consistently perform the others. Aristotle

• humanity
• recognition
• bases

praise and recognition based upon performance are the oxygen of the human spirit John Adair

• missing
• passion
• humanity

As long as that spark of passion is missing there is no human significance in the performance. Henry Miller

• god
• challenge
• evening

Even if evolution were true, it wouldn't disprove God. God has performed more spectacular feats than evolution. It's not even a daunting challenge to a belief in God. If you want something that complicates a belief in God, try coming to terms with Michael Moore being one of God's special creatures. Ann Coulter

• little
• help
• chance

You're cultural supremacists to the core. You'll perform your Questionable Activities to help out the poor little piggies, but there isn't a chance in the world you'll notice when they have something to teach you. Orson Scott Card

• achievement
• achieving
• achieved

The only performance that makes it, that makes it all the way is the one that achieves madness. Mick Jagger

• fitness
• personal
• education

We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class of necessity in every society, to forgo the privilege of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks. Woodrow Wilson

• sometimes
• happy
• wonder

Sometimes when I see a bad performance and people still clap... I wonder if they're clapping because they liked what they saw or because they're happy it's over? Kanye West

• words
• admirers
• cans

(Its) admirable words can purchase honour; (its) admirable deeds can raise their performer above others. Lao Tzu

• personal
• sky
• fall

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.... Antonin Artaud

• learning
• music
• genius

And why? Is our genius only in our wombs? Can we not write books and create learned scholarship and perform music and provide philosophical models for the betterment of mankind? E. L. Doctorow