Quotes about Performance

Performance art can be produced in a coffee house setting. Votes: 4

Performance's being becomes itself through disappearance. Votes: 3

Performance should be made square with promise. Votes: 3

Performance of one's duties should be independent of public opinion. Votes: 3

Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms. Votes: 3

Performance is a vehicle for entering different worlds of experiencing. Votes: 3

The seven Ps: Proper Planning and Preparation Prevent Piss-Poor Performance Votes: 3

Remember your six P's - Perfect Practice Prevents Piss Poor Performance. Votes: 3

Performance has to be mainstream art. This is what I'm fighting for. Votes: 3

I do everything in the third person. Performance is about being someone else. Votes: 3

People think 'Performance' blew my mind... my mind was blown long before that. Votes: 3

Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away. Votes: 3

Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away. Votes: 3

Leadership Is Performance. You Have To Be Conscious Of Your Behavior, Because Everyone Else Is. Votes: 3

Performance ought to improve with experience, and pressure is an obstacle that the diligent can overcome. Votes: 3

Performance is something we all strive to be better at. I'm no different than that. Who wants to look bad? Votes: 3

The only thing you owe the public is a good performance. Votes: 1

You go for the quality of the performance, not the longevity of it. Votes: 1

Watching previous figure skaters, I always wondered why they cried after their performance. Votes: 1

The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance. Votes: 1

My live performance, it just comes from feeling an energy and emotion from the crowd. Votes: 1

Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it. Votes: 1

The Smiths hasn't been equaled. That goes for the composition of the songs, the lyrics, and the performance. Votes: 1

The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways. Votes: 1

Salaries and wages must reflect the reality of the enterprise's economic performance; deviations from the planned performance should be reflected in pay. Votes: 1

It's such a joy to work with different ensembles and create a collaboration. Rehearsing and building a performance is very interesting for me. Votes: 1

Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance. Votes: 1

The highest levels of performance come to people who are centered, intuitive, creative, and reflective - people who know to see a problem as an opportunity. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

I believe so much in the power of performance I don't want to convince people. I want them to experience it and come away convinced on their own. Votes: 1

True prayer is neither a mere mental exercise nor a vocal performance. It is far deeper than that - it is spiritual transaction with the Creator of Heaven and Earth. Votes: 1

A studio is like a meditation room where music is created. And a live performance is the place where the creation of the studio is taken ahead. I love both. Votes: 1

I make films from the heart. I want to concentrate on the job of doing great and honest performances, and I'm gonna get better with every performance of mine, with every film of mine. Votes: 1

I think it's healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care - that you work hard and want to give a great performance. You just have to channel that nervous energy into the show. Votes: 1

Your performance depends on your people. Select the best, train them and back them. When errors occur, give sharper guidance. If errors persist or if the fit feels wrong, help them move on. The country cannot afford amateur hour in the White House. Votes: 1

From the very early stage when I started doing performance art in the '70s, the general attitude - not just me, but also my colleagues - was that there should not be any documentation, that the performance itself is artwork and there should be no documentation. Votes: 1

I feel really blessed when people start comparing me with Sachin, but I keep myself focused on my performance and not on such comparisons. I literally worship him, so I don't see too much in this comparison. No cricketer has been able to score one hundred centuries like Sachin. Votes: 1

The mall tour was right off of my second record, before it came out. It was very different. I did an acoustic performance every day in a different mall! One interesting thing I remember is playing 'My Happy Ending' a lot, and that song was so new that I remember getting emotional. Votes: 1

As a multisport athlete, I was always fascinated with competition and how to win. At HBS and later at the Harvard Department of Economics, I was drawn to the field of competition and strategy because it tackles perhaps the most basic question in both business management and industrial economics: What determines corporate performance? Votes: 1

Trust gives you the permission to give people direction, get everyone aligned, and give them the energy to go get the job done. Trust enables you to execute with excellence and produce extraordinary results. As you execute with excellence and deliver on your commitments, trust becomes easier to inspire, creating a flywheel of performance. Votes: 1

Whether you are a writer or an actor or a stage manager, you are trying to express the complications of life through a shared enterprise. That's what theatre was, always. And live performance shares that with an audience in a specific compact: the play is unfinished unless it has an audience, and they are as important as everyone else. Votes: 1

Passion + production = performance. Votes: 0

Teaching is performance art. Votes: 0

PR is performance recognition Votes: 0

All promise outruns performance. Votes: 0

Better moods = better performance. Votes: 0

Proper preparation prevents poor performance. Votes: 0

Stamp your performance with excellence. Votes: 0

Rapturous and full bodied performance. Votes: 0

Drugs won't enhance your performance. Votes: 0

Music is about the performance. Votes: 0

Perfect preparation prevents piss-poor performance. Votes: 0

Teaching is a performance art. Votes: 0

Peak performance is meditation in motion. Votes: 0

Computers double their performance every month. Votes: 0

Negative feedback effected amplifier performance significantly. Votes: 0

Let your performance do the thinking. Votes: 0

Nothing beats a live performance. Nothing. Votes: 0

Good acting is consistency of performance. Votes: 0

God gets the easiest performance reviews. Votes: 0

We all have levels of performance. Votes: 0

Before every performance I feel nervous. Votes: 0

Physicality is the basis of performance. Votes: 0

performance is an act of faith. Votes: 0

Dare to outlearn your best performance. Votes: 0

I'm not impressed by your performance. Votes: 0

I believe in pay for performance. Votes: 0

Quality performance starts with a positive attitude. Votes: 0

When your image improves, your performance improves. Votes: 0

Good well-being leads to good working performance. Votes: 0

Procrastination is the beginning of poor performance. Votes: 0

Preferences are bad solutions to performance problems. Votes: 0

Your thinking today determines your performance today. Votes: 0

Proper prior planning prevents pitiful poor performance. Votes: 0

Effective performance is preceded by painstaking preparation Votes: 0

I like the energy of live performance. Votes: 0

I never considered myself a performance artist. Votes: 0

Every performance is completely its own thing. Votes: 0

Sometimes colleagues in performance are absolutely astonishing. Votes: 0

All good performance starts with clear goals. Votes: 0

Improve your performance by improving your attitude. Votes: 0

There are no prizes for average performance. Votes: 0

I let the performance speak for itself. Votes: 0

Any performance I do, I give 110 percent. Votes: 0

The supreme misfortune is when theory outstrips performance Votes: 0

Respect, recognition, and reward flow out of performance. Votes: 0

With attitude, you can determine your own performance. Votes: 0

It's true, spectacular preparation always precedes spectacular performance. Votes: 0

Little Boy's performance is authentic, natural, moving & inspiring. Votes: 0

The really historical performance would talk to ghosts. Votes: 0

It's not a performance to impress the Puritans Votes: 0

Music is a performance and needs the audience. Votes: 0

Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance. Votes: 0

Painting is the frozen evidence of a performance. Votes: 0

...writing is not a performance but a generosity. Votes: 0

How much we like ourselves governs our performance. Votes: 0

You lose with potential. You win with performance. Votes: 0

Distinguish between the person and the behavior or performance. Votes: 0

Quality is more than a promise, it's genuine performance. Votes: 0

When you win, sometimes it overshadows a poor performance. Votes: 0

The White House is now essentially a TV performance. Votes: 0

Boxing is not about your feelings. It's about performance. Votes: 0

Conductors don't suffer, they are part of the performance. Votes: 0

Investment performance doesn't determine real-life returns; investor behavior does. Votes: 0

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance. Votes: 0

Dance every performance as if it were your last. Votes: 0

Your level of performance matches your dominant self image. Votes: 0

A powerful performance will transform everyone in the room. Votes: 0

A demanding performance challenge tends to create a team. Votes: 0

When performance exceeds ambition, the overlap is called success. Votes: 0

A self-reinforcing upward spiral: performance stimulating pride stimulating performance. Votes: 0

I just want people to focus on the performance. Votes: 0

In theater, blood is ketchup; in performance, everything's real. Votes: 0

Marketing is really theater. It's like staging a performance. Votes: 0

An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises. Votes: 0

The real secret of magic lies in the performance. Votes: 0

Overcoming barriers to performance is how groups become teams. Votes: 0

Jackie considered his resurrection, the world's best return performance. Votes: 0

Stand-up is probably the most solo performance in art. Votes: 0

You should not be defined by one bad performance. Votes: 0

All you owe the public is a good performance. Votes: 0

Dance is like wine; it matures with every performance. Votes: 0

A multithreaded file system is only a performance hack. Votes: 0

An announcer is only as good as yesterday's performance. Votes: 0

Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it. Votes: 0

Greatness is in the preparation, not in the performance. Votes: 0

MAMMOOTTY has presented an outstanding performance in film'New Delhi' Votes: 0

My first ever stage performance was in Edinburgh in 1960. Votes: 0

A novel is a performance you have to plan. Votes: 0

In combat, spontaneity rules; rote performance of technique perishes. Votes: 0

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance Votes: 0

Nothing has more words and performance than rap music. Votes: 0

Simplicity, without which no human performance can arrive at perfection. Votes: 0

Good performance is about the capacity to focus and concentrate. Votes: 0

To me travel is triple delight: anticipation, performance, and recollection. Votes: 0

Sometimes you have to sacrifice your performance for high heels. Votes: 0

Sexuality and gender don't change anyone's performance on the court. Votes: 0

Everything I do is geared towards improving my next performance. Votes: 0

The eating of burning brimstone is an entirely fake performance. Votes: 0

Any excuse for non-performance, no matter how valid, weakens character. Votes: 0

Best performance of the year: Aston Villa v. Milan, September 1994 Votes: 0

It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance. Votes: 0

Over the long run, superior performance depends on superior learning. Votes: 0

Let today's strong performance be your starting point for tomorrow. Votes: 0

Operational effectiveness and strategy are both essential to superior performance. Votes: 0

Even noteworthy performance attainments do not necessarily boost perceived self-efficacy Votes: 0

Winners believe in their worth in advance of their performance. Votes: 0

I am certainly suffering from a modicum of performance anxiety. Votes: 0

A performance is a conversation between you and an audience. Votes: 0

You just have to take control of your own performance. Votes: 0

They got a great performance from me. I was happy. Votes: 0

My father-in-law saw me at a dance performance. The next Votes: 0

I am pure performance, and Robert Wilson is pure theater. Votes: 0

The negative is the score, and the print the performance. Votes: 0

it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance Votes: 0

I'd rather do my own performance than copy someone else's. Votes: 0

I have never taken any substance to enhance my performance. Votes: 0

Critique the performance, and respect the hard work put in. Votes: 0

The best kind of performance review is no performance review Votes: 0

An ounce of image is worth a pound of performance Votes: 0

I'm a performance artist first; I'm a recording artist second. Votes: 0

I'm on performance enhancing drugs, so I may cause drowsiness. Votes: 0

Tomorrow never really comes, so todays performance is what really counts. Votes: 0

Confidence is the bridge connecting expectations and performance, investment and results. Votes: 0

A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge. Votes: 0

A total commitment is paramount to reaching the ultimate in performance. Votes: 0

Wealth is not determined by investment performance, but by investor behavior. Votes: 0

Leaders set high standards. Refuse to tolerate mediocrity or poor performance. Votes: 0

My performance level has risen - and my anxiety-level has sky-rocketed. Votes: 0

My style of performance poetry came from the beatniks, Allen Ginsberg. Votes: 0

I've been onstage once for one performance with four days' rehearsal. Votes: 0

I try to get the best performance an actor can give. Votes: 0

One of the things I love about music is live performance. Votes: 0

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise. Votes: 0

To be overcome with the ultimate goal often interferes with performance. Votes: 0

If you do performance and music, it's not performance as music. Votes: 0

A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge. Votes: 0

Genetics is all about showcasing human beauty along with high-quality performance. Votes: 0

I owe the public just one thing - a good performance. Votes: 0

A mouse and a keyboard is not a good performance instrument. Votes: 0

I can assure you, nothing in my performance will be deflated Votes: 0

The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth. Votes: 0

As a child, I was always interested in drama and performance. Votes: 0

There is no nobler deed than the performance of one's duty. Votes: 0

[The Surf Lodge performance] is sort of like an annual thing. Votes: 0

True material welfare is never inconsistent with performance of religious obligations. Votes: 0

Chris Chandler is the best performance poet I have ever seen. Votes: 0

A great performance like Lady Macbeth may be forgotten. Writing endures. Votes: 0

The way you see yourself today will affect your performance today. Votes: 0

Before every performance, I think I am about to keel over. Votes: 0

I consider that my best performance ever was as Peer Gynt. Votes: 0

You cannot build performance on weaknesses. You can build only on strengths. Votes: 0

Winning an Oscar ain't about performance. There's a lot of politics involved. Votes: 0

There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer. Votes: 0

I am amazed and thrilled and unbelievably proud about my team's performance. Votes: 0

Self-consciousness can destroy a performance. Getting rid of that is always good. Votes: 0

An amazing performance is always a reflection of awesome amounts of practice. Votes: 0

God's primary concerns have to do with your well-being, not your performance. Votes: 0

No, we've been performing our old songs a little differently each performance. Votes: 0

The best way to improve mental performance, is to improve physical performance Votes: 0

Strive for excellence in few things, rather than good performance in many. Votes: 0

I am a bit evangelical, I know, but performance-capture is still misunderstood. Votes: 0

The world is crawling with authors touring now. They're like performance artists. Votes: 0

Giants in Their promises, but those obtained, weak pigmies In their performance. Votes: 0

The same dynamics that promote performance also support learning and behavioral change. Votes: 0

Behind every brilliant performance there were countless hours of practice and preparation. Votes: 0

Self-discipline has a bigger effect on academic performance than does intellectual talent. Votes: 0

Praising children’s intelligence harms their motivation and it harms their performance. Votes: 0

Secular artists see themselves with performance; they are more self involved, presentational. Votes: 0

Evaluate every performance on: stage presence, concentration, delivery, material and lessons learned. Votes: 0

I don't think anyone could ever be wholly satisfied with their performance. Votes: 0

Criticism shouldn't be a performance that upstages the work it's talking about. Votes: 0

Oh that thou hadst like others been all words, And no performance. Votes: 0

A divinely expressed performance in any genre sets me completely on fire. Votes: 0

Natural hydration is a key factor in any type of sports performance. Votes: 0

It's always been performance art, but now it's on a different level. Votes: 0

Does the real thing ever have the perfection of a stage performance? Votes: 0

An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment. Votes: 0

If something strikes me as funny, I'll put it in my performance. Votes: 0

I had a flair for comedy and could give a sustained performance. Votes: 0

If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance. Votes: 0

Rested, Refreshed, and Ready to run, the three Rs of peak performance. Votes: 0

We have a no puke rule. The purpose is performance, not puking. Votes: 0

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance? Votes: 0

In a professional once engaged, the performance of the job comes first. Votes: 0

Just because you're wearing a goofy hat doesn't make it performance art. Votes: 0

The best form of endurance exercise is the performance of the event. Votes: 0

Writing is a performance, like singing an aria or dancing a jig Votes: 0

Somehow writing has always seemed to me to have an element of performance. Votes: 0

Life is a play.It's not its length,but its performance that counts. Votes: 0

You don’t give someone notes on their performance at a soup kitchen. Votes: 0

I'm much more energetic now; you might say live performance is my mission. Votes: 0

Good performance is about what you take in, not what you put out. Votes: 0

When we get the final hardware, the performance is just going to skyrocket. Votes: 0

It is impossible to produce superior performance unless you do something very different. Votes: 0

Without the concentration of the mind and the will, performance would not result. Votes: 0

All kinds of performance practices have a certain register of power or solemnity. Votes: 0

Enjoying life is far superior to being graded on your performance in life. Votes: 0

The first dance performance I saw was Joffrey Ballet doing 'Billboards' to Prince. Votes: 0

Politics with me isn't theater. It's performance art. Sometimes, for its own sake. Votes: 0

Specialization, concentration and consistency is the key to outstanding performance... Love your zone! Votes: 0

It is the repeated performance of just and temperate actions that produces virtue. Votes: 0

The formidable power of geography determines the character and performance of a people. Votes: 0

Strength and conditioning are the keys to good performance and longevity in gymnastics. Votes: 0

One's performance is often heightened by the brilliance and generosity of other actors. Votes: 0

I'm too busy putting my energies into my performance to be a diva. Votes: 0

It's a lot easier to say you're a comic than a performance artist. Votes: 0

I say this quite deliberately, this is the finest Shakespearean performance I've seen. Votes: 0

You must showcase your work, achievements and performance in the best possible manner. Votes: 0

Evidence is conclusive that your self-talk has a direct bearing on your performance. Votes: 0

You can only elevate individual performance by elevating that of the entire system. Votes: 0

There was nothing wrong with the performance, apart from throwing away the game. Votes: 0

Coaching done well may be the most effective intervention designed for human performance. Votes: 0

Promises may fit the friends, but non performance will turn them into enemies. Votes: 0

The miracle of the Atonement can make up for imperfections in our performance. Votes: 0

Don't wait for a huge platform before you give of your best performance Votes: 0

People are inherently good. Our souls are magnificent and capable of extraordinary performance. Votes: 0

Set excellent performance as your standard and strive to achieve it each day Votes: 0

You worry just as much about great performance as you do about underperformance. Votes: 0

New York State is upside down and backwards; high taxes and low performance. Votes: 0

Your self-image controls your performance; see yourself as confident and in complete control Votes: 0

There is always tension in women's gymnastics between athleticism, grace, performance, and eros. Votes: 0

Inside was the second LP album of a comedian's performance before an audience. Votes: 0

Past performance speaks a tremendous amount about one's ability and likelihood for success. Votes: 0

Shutting people down creatively often doesn't get the best performance out of them. Votes: 0

I think some people ramp a side of themselves up for performance purposes. Votes: 0

The most basic problem is that performance appraisals often don't accurately assess performance. Votes: 0

Our righteousness doesn't depend on our present performance but on Jesus' finished performance. Votes: 0

The mind does different things in performance, and conscious thought sometimes takes a backseat. Votes: 0

Look at Walter Huston in The Devil and Daniel Webster: It's an incredible performance. Votes: 0

Your performance gets you promoted. It doesn't matter if you're brown, back or white. Votes: 0

I don't really do indulgences. I'm more interested in discipline, goal setting, and performance. Votes: 0

The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance. Votes: 0

You're always going to be more judgmental about your own performance than anyone else. Votes: 0

Your health, wealth, position, performance, ability and attitude are the results of your decisions. Votes: 0

Every performance is an opportunity to have something new or to learn something new. Votes: 0

The magic behind every outstanding performance is always found in the smallest of details. Votes: 0

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality. Votes: 0

Disease is the abnormal performance of certain functions; the abnormal activity has its causes. Votes: 0

Wal-Mart hires average people but squeezes above average performance and results out of them. Votes: 0

You can lose in cinema too if you don't put on a good performance. Votes: 0

If people want to criticize a performance, that I understand. I think that's important. Votes: 0

Just play with sincerity, give the performance of your life with everything you've got. Votes: 0

I owe one thing to my public - the best performance I can give. Votes: 0

The fundamental basis of above-average performance in the long run is sustainable competitive advantage. Votes: 0

Chess is one of the few arts where composition takes place simultaneously with performance Votes: 0

Arrogance is a veneer -- a thin covering of excuses hiding deep performance deficiencies. Votes: 0

... the worst possible heritage to leave with children: high spiritual pretensions and low performance. Votes: 0

Your ability to show discretion defines your likeliness to contribute to a wholesome performance. Votes: 0

I became fascinated by the fact that you could translate written material into performance. Votes: 0

Whenever I have a bad performance, I look at it as a learning experience. Votes: 0

Everything in my life was about performance when I was doing 'The Partridge Family. Votes: 0

The beauty of performance for me is finding details with which to betray character. Votes: 0

My focus is on a ring, and giving the best individual performance I can. Votes: 0

Whatever else can be said about sex, it cannot be called a dignified performance. Votes: 0

One has to set high standards... I can never be happy with mediocre performance. Votes: 0

The sign of a great player is how much he elevates his colleagues' performance. Votes: 0

The only excuse for not coming to a class or a performance is death. Votes: 0

Our little pebble of poor performance helps to start, or to sustain, an avalanche. Votes: 0

By nature, worship is not some performance we do, but a presence we experience. Votes: 0

You mustn't judge a politician by talk. You have to judge them by performance. Votes: 0

How you measure the performance of your managers directly affects the way they act. Votes: 0

Typically, the performance has a story - a beginning, the crescendo and the end. Votes: 0

We were doing performance art as far back as 1965, just not calling it that. Votes: 0

Promises may get friends, but it is performance that must nurse and keep them. Votes: 0

A performance must capture or communicate with the mood and feelings of that very moment. Votes: 0

Actors should be overheard, not listened to, and the audience is 50 percent of the performance. Votes: 0

I can't let in the light.It will destroy my performance like light destroys film Votes: 0

A sloppy performance in a photograph is as distressing as a sloppy performance in music. Votes: 0

The boys performance was so good that I've run out of expletives to describe it. Votes: 0

I actually acted onstage before I'd ever seen a live performance, and I loved it. Votes: 0

I get nervous every time, for every single performance, before getting up on that stage. Votes: 0

There are a million ways of arriving at a performance, any number of them solid. Votes: 0

The adequacy of performance attainments depends upon the personal standards against which they are judged Votes: 0

My life is a performance for which I was never given any chance to rehearse. Votes: 0

It's easy listening to a record, but a live performance is so personal and real. Votes: 0

Mutual fund manager performance does not persist and the return of stock picking is zero. Votes: 0

A procession is a participants' journey, while a parade is a performance with an audience. Votes: 0

Basically this is what you want - a high performance machine that idiots can run. Votes: 0

I think there are a lot of celebrities who put on a performance on camera. Votes: 0

The life of every man is an endlessly repeated performance of the life of man. Votes: 0

Mastery has been achieved when one neither makes a mistake nor hesitates in the performance. Votes: 0

I try to see interviewing as performance art, and just take it as it comes. Votes: 0

Nobody has milked one performance better than me - and I'm damned proud of it. Votes: 0

If I am ever put to death on the hook, expect a very human performance. Votes: 0

Conflict is what creates drama. The more conflict actors find, the more interesting the performance. Votes: 0

Focus on performance. Outcome is going to happen. No stress about that. Focus on performance. Votes: 0

The greatest performance improvement of all is when a system goes from not-working to working. Votes: 0

I started off in a small theatre performance company and worked my way into commercials. Votes: 0

High performance leaders create an inspiring future by connecting with a classic and honorable past. Votes: 0

Did you know I staged the first performance in America of At the Hawk's Well? Votes: 0

When you get performance slots for award shows - that's a big deal for me. Votes: 0

Science is a trigger of changes of civilization. Religion is the failsafe of science performance. Votes: 0

I think a lot of teachers want to talk about how to continually improve performance. Votes: 0

I make 50 cents for showing up... and the other 50 cents is based on my performance. Votes: 0

I guess my interest in performance has evolved and changed many times over the years. Votes: 0

Whistling together. Some kind of performance. I mean, not just a conversation, but a performance. Votes: 0

My favorite thing that God gives is grace. It is without performance, free in Christ. Votes: 0

Benchmark your performance against your best competitors. Think how you can beat them next time. Votes: 0

Compete with no man but thyself.Always seek opportunities to improve upon your best performance. Votes: 0

I love musical theatre because I love doing a live performance eight times a week. Votes: 0

The best performance improvement is the transition from the nonworking state to the working state. Votes: 0

I always find that 90% of the performance, for me, is about what comes from inside. Votes: 0

Good directing is about getting the performance to be just what's right for the movie. Votes: 0

The only way to maximize potential for performance is to be calm in the mind. Votes: 0

The only real difference between one organization and another is the performance of its people. Votes: 0

I love musicals; I love the ballet, opera, the circus. It's all performance to me. Votes: 0

The audience, the place youre in, has everything to do with how your performance goes. Votes: 0

Our definition of a weakness is anything that gets in the way of excellent performance. Votes: 0

Life is rather like acting lessons while you are on stage giving a public performance! Votes: 0

The last thing that man will understand in nature is the performance of his brain. Votes: 0

I have never had a single positive doping test, and I do not take performance-enhancing drugs. Votes: 0

On the stage of life, what are words but decorations... unlike dance that showcases the performance? Votes: 0

The sixth Harry Potter film - I don't like my performance in that film at all. Votes: 0

When you have performers, there's the uniqueness of live performance and what performers do in concerts. Votes: 0

High expectations and belief in people leads to high performance so very often belief creates fact. Votes: 0

Fun is only real and sustainable if it feeds off the team's purpose and performance aspirations. Votes: 0

There is no substitute for work; what seems ease of performance comes from the greatest labor. Votes: 0

There is no better education than rap battling in terms of performance. It makes you fearless. Votes: 0

That's a wonderful thing, because one of the primary qualities of a good performance is honesty. Votes: 0

Debra Winger doesn't let anything interfere with her performance, which is the way it should be. Votes: 0

When markets are rallying, cash in the portfolio is a drag on performance, returning about zero. Votes: 0

I am always more interested in performance and character depiction, and my direction says as much. Votes: 0

It is the quality and the character of the leader that determines the results and performance. Votes: 0

That sort of reputation which precedes performance [is] often the larger part of a man's fame. Votes: 0

Social media is a performance like any other form of entertainment, and acknowledging that is important. Votes: 0

Many performance poets seem to believe that yelling a poem makes it comprehensible. They are wrong. Votes: 0

We do what we can, and then make a theory to prove our performance the best. Votes: 0

Just because some people are fueled by drama doesn't mean you have to attend the performance. Votes: 0

Debra Winger doesn't let anything interfere with her performance, which is the way it should be Votes: 0

Hint: money flows into most funds after good performance, and goes out when bad performance follows. Votes: 0

Your career growth depends mainly on how well you can articulate and present your performance review. Votes: 0

If I had a bad performance in a particular leotard, I threw it in the trash. Votes: 0

Giving a good performance, giving it all is what it's all about. I love to perform. Votes: 0

On the stage of life, what are words but decorations... unlike dance that showcases the performance~? Votes: 0

If you don't back it up with performance and hard work, talking doesn't mean a thing. Votes: 0

I'm not in competition with anybody but myself. My goal is to beat my last performance. Votes: 0

I love surprising people with a present or a gift or a stage performance or anything. Votes: 0

Love is 100% percent practical, oral performance is an ultimate turn-off, whether you like it or not. Votes: 0

He who is ever brooding over result often loses nerve in the performance of his duty. Votes: 0

High performance leaders know they have to breathe out when they are coming up for air. Votes: 0

The minute you feel you have given a faultless performance is the time to get out. Votes: 0

I think it hurt my performance because I stopped being me. That won't ever happen again. Votes: 0

I'm one of these people who would rather show you than tell you through the performance. Votes: 0

no work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps. Votes: 0

That's another flaw with performance-based rewards: They are easy for one of your competitors to top. Votes: 0

Flying prevails whenever a man and his airplane are put to a test of maximum performance. Votes: 0

The Steve Allen Sunday night show had the right to two options after my first performance. Votes: 0

Growing up as a dancer, the stage is really where I love to be performance wise. Votes: 0

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance. Votes: 0

My deal will always be one solo performance-nominated or not. Not some thrown together rock tribute. Votes: 0

I treat every time I walk on the stage like it's the performance of my life. Votes: 0

My father was a painter and an anarchist, always getting in trouble for his performance art. Votes: 0

If you want to build a high performance organization, you've got to play chess, not checkers. Votes: 0

[On Katharine Hepburn's stage performance:] She ran the whole gamut of emotions, from A to B. Votes: 0

I am against performance-enhancing drugs. I have never taken them and I never will take them. Votes: 0

A performance does not capture or communicate with the mood and feelings of that very moment. Votes: 0

If my films do well or not, I am glad that the audiences appreciate my performance. Votes: 0

I'm extremely critical. I don't consider myself a performance artist. I balk at the term performance art. Votes: 0

In all we do we must cultivate faith. Increased faith is the touchstone to improved church performance. Votes: 0

A single year's performance is of minor importance and, good or bad, should never be taken seriously. Votes: 0

For me, performance is about forgetting what I'm wearing. Just putting it on and knowing it's right. Votes: 0

I can't imagine a successful comedy movie without a successful comedy performance at the heart of it. Votes: 0

My relationship with shoes has always been linked to shoes, women, women in their shoes and performance. Votes: 0

I always wanted, and still aspire, to be something more than just one thing, just one performance. Votes: 0

In any racing engine, the nearer you are to it disintegrating, the better it's performance will be Votes: 0

You can't really watch a theater performance by yourself. You can watch a movie by yourself, though. Votes: 0

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something. Votes: 0

Make peace with the fear of defeat... Fear holds you back from putting forth your best performance. Votes: 0

Banks need to have large shareholders on the board that have a direct interest in their performance. Votes: 0

Only undertake what you can do in an excellent fashion. There are no prizes for average performance. Votes: 0

Nothing feels worse than having to break the stage down before the performance, and I mean nothing. Votes: 0

Judging by your performance at the Olympics, it don't look too bright for your future does it! Votes: 0

I think performance art comes from a simple place of wanting to express things beyond just sound. Votes: 0

The best performance advice I have ever been given was to "Know where your light is, onstage." Votes: 0

Bridal is very much a performance - it is the one grand event in every woman's life. Votes: 0

No one tells you what to do if you completely flop at the beginning of a performance. Votes: 0

I am a huge fan of Jessica Lange. I think her performance in Grey Gardens is amazing. Votes: 0

I think it's more important to try and make a good film than give a good performance. Votes: 0

As a high wire walker, I do not allow myself to 'leave the wire' during a performance. Votes: 0

I'm not a performance artist or any of that, I'm not out to please anyone. Just me. Votes: 0

I love live performance, but I am excited to try my hand at whatever comes my way. Votes: 0

I don't think performance out of duty yields very much. Coercion is never the way to go. Votes: 0

At some point, a group of people working towards similar goals will exhibit a distribution of performance. Votes: 0

Every time I've had a bad performance at an event, I've come back more determined and focused. Votes: 0

My sister Kim is like Lucille Ball. She's magical in terms of her performance and her writing. Votes: 0

As long as that spark of passion is missing there is no human significance in the performance. Votes: 0

When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance it becomes literature. Votes: 0

Inner strength of character cannot be measured by any means but performance in the time of need. Votes: 0

You must put your head into the lion's mouth if the performance is to be a success. Votes: 0

Three languages - the video, the music and the live performance - are awesome to bring together. Votes: 0

I am forever grateful that I got some training in the theater - it reduces performance anxiety. Votes: 0

She played the role of the gracious ex so well, sometimes she even believed her own performance. Votes: 0

I don't blame people who suspect my performance. My own mind suspects it. How can I blame them? Votes: 0

I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that. Votes: 0

Every time I see a live performance of something, I'm like, 'I want to be doing that!' Votes: 0

When you try hard to do your best, the effect on your performance is often to jinx it. Votes: 0

If you give it good concentration, good energy, good heart and good performance, the song will play you. Votes: 0

I was bored to death and thinking more about the minibar and the after-show party than the performance. Votes: 0

Being around the energy of new people is wonderful. It only lifts my performance and makes it better. Votes: 0

Take a minute: look at your goals, look at your performance, see if your behavior matches your goals. Votes: 0

Please note that, at no point in the performance, does my hand leave the end of my arm... Votes: 0

The most memorable performance was my appearance in concert in Carnegie Hall. The first standup to do so. Votes: 0

Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine ACTIONS than in the non-performance of base ones. Votes: 0

I think that there's only one nationality and one language in the sport, and you call it performance. Votes: 0

I come from the performance world, but the idea of a worship song is different. It's useful music. Votes: 0

Faith is the realization that God's pleasure in you will never be based upon your performance for him. Votes: 0

If I get no sleep the night before a show, I feel that performance is the best one. Votes: 0

I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature. Votes: 0

Let us be clear: I take ten times more money for a concert than for an opera performance. Votes: 0

Be able to resign. It will improve your value to the President and do wonders for your performance. Votes: 0

I don't say that I never feel fear before a performance, but I have learned to channel it. Votes: 0

The measure of performance of any given agent is the amount of money it accumulates through its actions. Votes: 0

The best way to improve children's performance in the classroom may be to take them out of it. Votes: 0

Once they call you a Latin Lover, you're in real trouble. Women expect an Oscar performance in bed. Votes: 0

Those differences are what color the performance, but in the movies you don't get a chance to rehearse. Votes: 0

I accept that responsibility and ask only that I be judged by my performance as its chief executive. Votes: 0

As long as I give the best performance I can give, I know I can't do any more. Votes: 0

The only performance that makes it, that makes it all the way is the one that achieves madness. Votes: 0

Not only am I constantly seeking better performance but also to be a better person, to be respected. Votes: 0

Once I learned how to be a healthy vegan by eating the right foods my performance improved dramatically. Votes: 0

It's such a performance to bring stuff into America. It's a great luxury when I am in England. Votes: 0

Have you set high standards in the past that make it clear what level of performance you demand? Votes: 0

To some Christianity is an argument. To many it is a performance. To a few, it is experience. Votes: 0

The best way to show respect to your fellow athletes is to give the best performance you can. Votes: 0

I preferred delivering my performance in person. I liked to be in control. You couldn't be in films. Votes: 0

I was particularly proud of my performance as the Joker. I considered it a piece of pop art. Votes: 0

Fear is like the steam that fires the combustion engine. You need fear to get a performance going. Votes: 0

Claude Rains was what we call an actor's actor. He was very involved with himself and his performance. Votes: 0

If you want to have a better performance than the crowd, you must do things differently from the crowd. Votes: 0

When you lack interest in the case the job will very likely lack skill and diligence in the performance. Votes: 0

I wanted to make a classical piece that was actually designed to be a CD, not designed for performance. Votes: 0

In the performance of a good action, we not only benefit ourselves, but we confer a blessing upon others. Votes: 0

If life is a performance, and I am not an actor, am I supposed to lie down and die? Votes: 0

If you can raise the level of effort and performance in those around you, you are officially a leader. Votes: 0

You can teach a bear to tango on a barrel but his enthusiasm and performance are limited and brief. Votes: 0

You'll never see a good performance out of me, in terms of a character, when the camera isn't rolling. Votes: 0

If only it were as easy to do the work of others as it is to criticize their performance. Votes: 0

I look at old performance videos now, and it's really funny - I thought I was such a gangster! Votes: 0

As an atheist, I was predisposed to not enjoy the MAZE performance. I am happy to report the opposite Votes: 0

Every performance is different, but I try to approach them in the same way and give it my all. Votes: 0

So much depends on the performance, and here you are also tied up in the emotion the game evokes. Votes: 0

We gave up on the idea of trying to make the record a good representation of the live performance. Votes: 0

It is not always possible to be the best, but it is always possible to improve your own performance. Votes: 0

I don't really unwind after a performance. I'm still pumped up and just want to get back on stage. Votes: 0

Youll never see a good performance out of me, in terms of a character, when the camera isnt rolling. Votes: 0

So, sometimes, when I'm not happy with my performance and I have to think, I will think in English Votes: 0

When I play, I open up. I'm in the heat of the performance and it's a healing thing. It's great! Votes: 0

You really expose yourself when you try and go to up the volume and up the size of your performance. Votes: 0

To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible. Votes: 0

Life is like a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the intrument as you go along Votes: 0

You can't plan everything - if I did a performance exactly how I rehearsed it, it would be so boring. Votes: 0

Tennis is more than just a sport. It's an art, like the ballet. Or like a performance in the theater. Votes: 0

I like actors who don't have to think too hard about what they have to do to achieve their performance. Votes: 0

The performance is created by the director. The actor is the material. And I think that has to be true. Votes: 0

The sign of a great player is not how much he scores, but how much he lifts his teammates performance Votes: 0

Some directors cast you because they trust you to do the performance - but then they forget to direct you. Votes: 0

It is easier to raise the performance of one leader than it is to raise the performance of a whole mass. Votes: 0

Being an athlete is a state of mind which is not bound by age, performance or place in the running pack. Votes: 0

The performance of a lifetime is the perfect thing to be doing at this age because I can use the age. Votes: 0