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性能
Performance
I know I'm never as good or bad as one single performance. I've never believed in my critics or my worshippers, and I've always been able to leave the game at the arena.
我知道我从来没有像一场表演那么好或那么差。我从不相信我的批评者或崇拜者，我总是能够离开赛场。
The way it works: The orchestra plays a few selections of its own and I terminate the first part of the programme on piano, usually with a movement from a Mozart concerto.
工作方式:管弦乐队演奏一些自己的选段，我以钢琴结束节目的第一部分，通常是莫扎特协奏曲的一个乐章。
Firms would be given initial entitlements to gross markup on the basis of past performance. These entitlements would be transferable and a market in them would be developed.
根据过去的业绩，公司将获得加总利润的初步权利。这些权利将是可转让的，并将在其中发展一个市场。
Second of all, I don't think Wall Street is doing what it's supposed to be doing, even after the shameful performance of the last two years. They're are not allocating capital.
其次，我不认为华尔街在做它应该做的事情，即使在过去两年可耻的表现之后。他们没有配置资本。
I write a song to be recorded. And to some extent to be performed, but definitely more to be recorded than performed, because the recording will last longer than a performance.
我写了一首歌要录制。在某种程度上是要被执行的，但肯定是要被记录的比被执行的要多，因为记录比表演持续的时间要长。
I sing in many different colors and, hopefully, they add up to a great performance that, after you leave the theater, makes you feel like I've really shared something of myself.
我用很多不同的颜色唱歌，希望这些颜色加起来能成为一场精彩的演出，在你离开剧院后，让你觉得我真的分享了自己的一些东西。
A coach once told me there are four factors that determine a players' performance: his tactical awareness, his physical condition, his technical ability and his mental strength.
一位教练曾经告诉我决定一个球员表现的因素有四个:他的战术意识，他的身体状况，他的技术能力和他的精神力量。
He has all those different aspects to him, so I can more or less decide as a performer how I'm going to deliver a line in a particular scene, or play a particular scene in total.
他有所有这些不同的方面，所以我或多或少可以决定作为一个演员，我要如何在一个特定的场景中表达一个台词，或者整体上演奏一个特定的场景。
We chose the shoes not on performance or durability or comfort, because we can't really judge those kinds of things, but purely on their visual excitement, how beautiful they look.”
我们选择这双鞋不是因为它的性能、耐用性或舒适度，因为我们无法真正评判这类东西，而仅仅是看它们的视觉刺激，它们看起来有多美。”
The skills that we have are the actual magic skills - not the performing skills. We have to separate those. But the actual skills that make the tricks work, we don't get to use again.
我们拥有的技能是真正的魔法技能，而不是表演技能。我们必须把它们分开。但是真正使这些把戏奏效的技巧，我们不再使用了。
And over the last ten years, after my work with the Brodsky Quartet, I had the opportunity to write arrangements for chamber group, chamber orchestra, jazz orchestra, symphony orchestra even.
在过去的十年里，在我与布罗斯基四重奏乐团合作之后，我有机会为室内乐组，室内乐乐团，爵士乐团，甚至交响乐团写编曲。
Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.
不要降低你的期望来满足你的表现。提高你的表现水平，以满足你的期望。期待最好的自己，然后做必要的事情使它成为现实。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.
一英亩的业绩抵得上整个世界的希望。
As far as performance, the roar of the crowd, the smell of the greasepaint no I don't feel that.
至于表演，人群的轰鸣声，油彩的味道不，我感觉不到。
Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?
这么多年来，欲望超越了表现，这难道不奇怪吗?
Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away.
表演就像一吨钻石一样引人注目。表现不佳总是可以解释得通的。
Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.
正如做最邪恶、最邪恶的事需要精神和才能一样，即使是最邪恶的事也需要某种麻木不仁，在其他情况下，我们称之为愚蠢。
What is a good performance? It lies in the hands and head of a performer... the shortest way between two people is not a straight line.
什么是好的表现?它就在表演者的手中和头上……两个人之间最短的路不是一条直线。