Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Performance Quotes
ExpectationMindsetPerformancePressureSuccess When you're headlining, people are paying to come see you specifically. It's a different kind of pressure, because you've got to deliver. You've got to give these people what they paid for. It's a different mind state, a different type of mentality, but it's honestly a pretty good problem to have, you know?
Audience InfluenceInspirationPerformancePublic Speaking There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth.
DedicationMotivationPerformancePreparationTraining If you train with fast athletes, it keeps you pushing. I know that good preparation is more important than everything else.
MindsetPerformancePerseverancePreparationResilience Sometimes, I arrive at races more energetic and clear-minded than ever, and then I have a terrible race. And the opposite is also true.
AmbitionDeterminationFocusPerformanceSkill My job is to get into the car and drive as fast and as well as possible.
Celebrity LifeHumilityHumorPerformanceSurprise On a good night, I get underwear, bras, and hotel-room keys thrown onstage... You start to think that you're Tom Jones.
AgingAudienceMusicPerformancePersonal Growth I was always drawn to the blues. Alberta Hunter at the Cookery was a life-changing experience. I only wanted to get enriched as a performer as I got older, to have an audience which got older, too, and would come to see me when I'm 80.
AuthenticityInner PeaceObligationPerformanceStress Relief Frankly, if I could get away with not having to perform, I'd be very happy. It's not my favorite thing to do.
AdaptabilityCommitmentEntertainmentPassionPerformance What was important to me was entertaining the audience, and whether that meant winning, losing, singing, or whatever it was on the live show we were doing every week, which was awesome, I was game for it.
ArtistryDance TechniquePerformanceStrengthTraining 'Swan Lake' is the most difficult thing to portray for a female ballet dancer; it really requires such specific qualities of articulation, agility, strength, and the arm work is something that takes a lot of training.
EfficiencyInnovationPerformanceTechnology The fuel cell is just a fundamentally inferior way of delivering electrical energy to an electric motor than batteries.
AchievementJoyMusicPerformanceSurreal Experience Every time I step on stage an' see all of the lights or hear fans singing the words to my songs ,it's a surreal moment for me.
Childhood JoyCreativityFreedom of ExpressionPerformanceSpontaneity I went to a concert once when I was a little kid and ran up onstage, started dancing, started saying anything that came to my head. I was like a little vaudevillian.
CreativityImaginationPerformanceSelf-Expression I like to be able to play a character and act out a lot of things which I can't or don't do in my normal everyday life.
ArtistryCreativityFocusPerformancePerspective I'm not a photographer, so I didn't get into F-stops or ND filters or background, foreground, cross-light, all that stuff. But I was interested in the camera and the lenses. That's the world that I'm moving in, in terms of acting and giving a performance.
ConcertsLive EventsPerformanceTheatricality A concert is not a live rendition of our album. It's a theatrica! event.
MusicPerformanceSelf-Confidence Speaking purely from a musical standpoint, I think I am a great performer.
InspirationPerformancePresenceTalent Meryl Streep does things I would never have thought possible... Her presence on screen is outstanding.
ConfidenceLife LessonsPerformanceSelf BeliefSports It's important in sport and life, if you do something with confidence you always do it better. That's the same in football and everything else.
AudienceEntertainmentPerformanceStrategy Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me. Every night I had a live audience of 25,000 people to win over. My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.
AccountabilityHealthcare WorkersPerformancePublic Health In poor countries, we still need better ways to measure the effectiveness of the many government workers providing health services. They are the crucial link bringing tools such as vaccines and education to the people who need them most. How well trained are they? Are they showing up to work?
EnvironmentPerformanceResilienceTimingUncertainty A player can have all the quality and everything it takes to play for a big-six team or to play for the best teams in the world but then sometimes it happens and it doesn't work out. It's not because of the player or the club, sometimes it's just the environment, it's the wrong timing.
CelebrityIdentityPerformancePublic PerceptionSelf-Expression It is a funny thing to step on stage and wear beautiful clothing and lots of makeup and stand in front of thousands of fans and be depicted as this goddess, this character.
ArtistryLive MusicMusicPerformanceRecording I live for playing live. All my records are live, since After the Gold Rush, with the exception of Trans and the vocals on Landing on Water.