Briana Baumbarger
"Performance is showing people what you've worked hard on."
Sarah Brooks
"Performance is making the audience feel the emotion that you are portraying."
Lindsay Carbone
"Performance is loving your show."
Lisa Clark
"Performance is..."
Amanda Comer
"Performance is giving something that you do in front of someone your absolute best."
Jody Howell
"Performance is showing a group of people what you have learned."
Angie Karduss
"Performance is having fun."
Lauren Meriano
"Performance is putting on a show."
Amber Nichols
"Performance is..."
Nicole Nichols
"Performance is..."
Andrea Pappa
"Performance is having fun and doing your best performing in front of people."
Ashley Plows
"Performance is working together and giving people a good show."
Jessica Roberts
"Performance is having fun."
Kelly Sweeney
"Performance is when you do something that you like."
We also asked the Unity Winter Ensemble staff how they would define performance. This is what they had to say:
Mary Pierce
"Performance is taking the floor with absolute confidence and spinning, dancing, tossing, smiling, pouring your heart out to the audience so that they understand the amount of hard work and dedication it takes to do what we do everyday (and still love it)."
Janine Scherr
"Performance is a passionate display of ones talents for the enjoyment of an audience."
Jennifer Wagner
"Performance is..."
Melissa Wagner
"Performance is..."
Below are some famous quotes about performance. Which one is your favorite?
"Performance is your reality. Forget everything else."
~ Harold Geneen ~
"That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved."
~ Unknown ~
"Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance."
~ Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)~
"Never promise more than you can perform."
~ Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)~
"The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act."
~ Marcel Duchamp ~
"There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) ~
"Only positive consequences encourage good future performances."
~ Kenneth H. Blanchard ~
"How much we like ourselves governs our performance."
~ Brian Tracy ~
"The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities."
~ Daniel Day Lewis ~
"When a team outgrows individual PERFORMANCE and learns team confidence, excellency becomes a reality."
~ Joe Paterno ~
"There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your PERFORMANCE the next time."
~ Og Mandino ~
"Do not waste a minute -- not a second -- in trying to demonstrate to others the merits of your performance. If your work does not vindicate itself, you cannot vindicate it."
~ Thomas Wentworth Higginson ~
"The rewards are going to come, but my happiness is just loving the sport and having fun performing."
~ Jackie Joyner Kersee ~
"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."
~ John Wooden ~