The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.
It seems to me now that the plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.
Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
Life' wrote a friend of mine, 'is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.
When you have a number of disagreeable duties to perform, always do the most disagreeable first.
Anybody who has listened to certain kinds of music, or read certain kinds of poetry, or heard certain kinds of performances on the concertina, will admit that even suicide has its brighter aspects.
Most people fail at whatever they attempt because of an undecided heart. Should I? Should I not? Go forward? Go back? Success requires the emotional balance of a committed heart. When confronted with a challenge, the committed heart will search for a solution. The undecided heart searches for an escape. A committed heart does not wait for conditions to be exactly right. Why? Because conditions are never exactly right. Indecision limits the Almighty and His ability to perform miracles in your life. He has put the vision in you -- proceed. To wait, to wonder, to doubt, to be indecisive is to disobey God. -Andy Andrews, The Traveler's Gift
He who promises more than he is able to perform, is false to himself; and he who does not perform what he has promised, is a traitor to his friend.
Performance is your reality. Forget everything else.