Performance Quotes
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Arrogance is a veneer -- a thin covering of excuses hiding deep performance deficiencies.
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An ounce of image is worth a pound of performance...
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Positive reinforcement generates more behavior than is minimally required. We call this discretionary effort, and its presence in the workplace is the only way an organization can maximize performance.
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I love every aspect of live performance and putting our shows together and approaching it from the standpoint of, 'What would we want to see if we were a fan sitting in the audience?'
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Don Knotts won five Emmy Awards for Outstanding Performance in a Supporting Role by an Actor or Actress in a Series in Andy Griffith Show in 1961, 1962, 1963, 1966 and 1967.
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The two things I always have to fight for are rest and food... I'm just grateful that I have the energy by the end of the day to do a performance.
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One of the really important things about the Olympics is, to enjoy yourself, you have to accept that it's different and feed off the enthusiasm of everyone and the inspiration and hopefully that will elevate your performance.
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Stanley Kubrick was very selective when he went into a close-up. Every director has his taste in a performance, but Stanley would explore a scene to find what was most interesting for him.
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What people say, it shouldn't matter. They're going to hype whoever they're going to hype - some deservedly so. But it shouldn't affect one player's performance or passion for the game.
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Bombardier continues to strengthen its position as Europe's leading provider of total transportation solutions. We are introducing new aircraft that deliver our customers unsurpassed performance and superior value in traditional European markets such as Switzerland, Italy, Germany and the United Kingdom, while also successfully playing a pioneering role to establish business aviation in new markets like Russia and the Ukraine.
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The White House is now essentially a TV performance.
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I am not an expert but I watched it with Eileen, and we were extremely disappointed because (Canada's Jamie) Sale and (David) Pelletier had done a fabulous performance, but I am not a judge.
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If you want to judge the performance of the Egyptian people by the standards of German or Chinese or American culture, then there is no room for judgment.
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MAMMOOTTY has presented an outstanding performance in film'New Delhi'
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I belong to that generation who, as students, had before their eyes, and were limited by, a horizon consisting of Marxism, phenomenology and existentialism. For me the break was first Beckett's Waiting for Godot, a breathtaking performance.
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I always wanted to give people the more exciting version of what I think a comedian should be - because I didn't grow up with comics, I grew up with rock 'n' roll. And when I saw a lot of comics, no matter how good they might have been material-wise, I would get a little bored with them after 10 minutes, only because I feel comedians don't really know performance.
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The realization that my daily relationship with God is based on the infinite merit of Christ instead of on my own performance is a very freeing and joyous experience. But it is not meant to be a one-time experience; the truth needs to be reaffirmed daily.
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I think the lawyers are such incredible actors. Can you imagine the performance they have to do every day?
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Women don't want equal treatment, they couldn't handle it if they got it. It's a tough world out there. What a lot of women are actually looking for is special treatment. What women need to realise is that they have to toughen up, we can't ask for equal pay, you have to be paid on performance and the results you deliver.
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The point here is that straight men, by definition, have nothing to cry about, ever—since, after all, the hold all the cards in contemporary society. What's bizarre is that the author of these words spent forty years of her life married (happily, by all accounts, including her own) to a straight man. The only way to reconcile such rhetoric with her actual life and feelings is to recognize that Sedgwick truly is engaged in an act of performance here—playing a role, putting one over on us.
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If you mess up the performance on stage, you do it again the next night. You're like alright, you let yourself off the hook, and you've got to go back in there. Whereas, with a film, I would go home and be like, "Well, I've ruined the arc of the character forever. That scene is never going to work. I know because I can never shoot it again." So, it's all miserable, but in different ways.
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When you lack interest in the case the job will very likely lack skill and diligence in the performance.
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Physical attraction was about aesthetics, not sexual performance, not mental stimulation. Without a mental connection, a remarkable sexual performance yielded no lifelong guarantees. It was only lust. And lust was not love.
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The really historical performance would talk to ghosts.
