Perform Quotes

You can work on the saxophone alone, but ultimately you must perform with others.

People in positions of power and privilege have a duty to perform at a higher level. If not them, then who?

I trained myself to perform on the field.

We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.

I've been told to speed up my delivery when I perform. But if I lose the stammer, I'm just another slightly amusing accountant.

A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano.

I asked the question, 'Will I ever perform again?'

I had to perform at the White House for the president, That's always kind of a weird set to try to put together.

I perform for soldiers because they are important.

It's not really that I didn't want to perform at all. What I didn't want to do was try to put together a band, rehearse, on my own. You know what I mean?

I think that's so strange, because they do know that we're all actors and we perform things that have not necessarily anything to do with us personally.

We all perform our lives in a way. And the actor is a perfect metaphor to get at that theme of 'how do we find our authentic selves?' And that we all - whether we're actors or not - perform ourselves. As a way of searching. As a way of fumbling around and trying to say, is this my voice? Is this who I am?

I just wanted to perform, to sing, dance and act.

We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.

People at .08 are too impaired to drive. Studies show that at .08, the ability to perform critical driving functions is decreased by as much as 60 percent.

I am putting pressure on myself to do my best and perform to my potential.

I'm always nervous when I perform anyway.

Without any assistance whatever, I founded a school in Weimar in 10 years. Only I could perform certain works with the scanty means that I dared not ask anyone else to work with.

If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist.

I cannot control what goes on in another lane and this is how I focus on the Games. There is no point in being nervous of other swimmers. It's just about focusing on yourself and what you need to do in order to perform at your best.

I think from a very young age I always have this desire to perform.

A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today's military rejects include tomorrow's hard-core unemployed.

You can perform all kind of characters but you cannot change what people feel for you.

Remember, while the work can sometimes appear to be simple to a viewer, the ability to perform expertly, consistently, precisely, over and over again, under pressure and on demand is what's needed.

Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.

Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.

I really don't get nervous when I perform -it's more of an exciting feeling than anything else. But put me in a classroom with kids my age and have me take a test and yeah, I'll be nervous!

It's always performing for me. I write and I record so I can perform. It all ties to that. I've done it since I was a little kid. That's my absolute rush, is playing for different people every night, bringing something else to the table they've never seen.

After six or seven performances of any song, you begin to perform it rather than feel it.

I've had a lot of fun, and when I talk to kids in journalism schools, I say, look, I know what the journalism teachers tell you that this is a great way to perform public service and all that, but I say the main reason, if you decide what you want to do is be a reporter, the main reason you want to do it is because it's just so much fun.