Quotes About Development

You can't ever reach perfection in this business, but that's one of the things I love. It's something that can't ever be mastered, but you can attempt to get as close as possible.

I'm a perfectionist and I've always been interested in growing and I think that has given me the mental fortitude to continue.

I like to improve myself every day and whatever my performance, I will always believe I can do better.

When you go to a show on opening night, or even the second performance, it is at the very beginning of what it will become. By the end of this run, the show will actually be what it is intended to be.

We've always had a dark atmosphere to our performances, so it sort of developed along those ways.

Over the years I've evolved a lot as a performer.

I was a late bloomer. I wasn't a child performer.

If any performer has quality in his voice he can almost always be helped to develop all the other necessary attributes.

I'm not, like, a natural performer. It's sort of a thing that I've had to learn to do.

I worked really hard in college, and I came out a completely different person and performer than when I went in. I did the work, and I found a craft.

I've had a lot of opportunities to grow inside and out as a performer, artist, and a woman.

I think I would not be who I am if I did not have experience both as an audience and as a performer in those early days of my career. It taught me what entertainment is all about.

I started as a pretty quiet kid and have had to evolve into a performer.

I'm perfecting my craft as an artist and as a performer, and my shows are getting better each time.

But I like the process of putting a show together and the impact that Edinburgh has on me as a performer.

I'm from the school that great performers and great leaders create more great leaders. Give people other experiences, other responsibilities. Have them join organizations within the company and outside the company.

You have to think, 'What can I do to help my team develop, grow, and become better performers?' rather than, 'What's in it for me?'

I have grown up now... with so much experience in life that I keep incorporating in my expression while performing.

The historic dearth of labor was perhaps the central feature of the American economy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

You know, songs often have a very coloured past. They might have something about them but it still doesn't work, so someone else adds a bit, and someone else adds a bit so perhaps one day I'll know its full history.

It is true I had been successful on a small scale in overcoming one of the main difficulties in the new process, but there was still much to invent, and much that at that period I necessarily knew nothing about.

Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.

Ideas have a certain gestation period that can't be forced.

Every city in America and in the world should be trying to grow its technology ecosystem, period. Especially if they care about their children and their grandchildren.