Performance Quotes

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

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Great
  • Player
  • Colleagues

• Economists and financial analysts are not like steelworkers or people in other occupations. They don't get evaluated based on their performance. They can mess up every day of the week through their whole careers, and this would be just fine, as long as they messed up in the same way as their peers.

  

  Dean Baker
  • Way
  • Economists
  • Steelworkers

• The best kind of performance review is no performance review.

  

  Aubrey Daniels
  • Performance
  • Review

• To rebuild his personal trust he must get people feeling better about his performance.

  

  Andrew Kohut
  • Feeling
  • Trust
  • Performance

• The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.

  

  Bela Lugosi
  • Actor
  • Performance

• Set higher standards for your own performance than anyone else around you, and your only competition will be with yourself.

  

  Rick Pitino
  • Competition
  • Performance
  • Standards

• I'd been used to this idea of destructive performance art instead of a slick, good-sounding show. So, I became frustrated as I felt I'd been doing the shows wrong. That sucked.

  

  EMA
  • Show
  • Performance
  • Frustrated

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

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Job
  • Performance
  • Lack Interest

• When you're writing something new, writing something that's your own, basically you have nothing else to do except either invent a trick, use someone else's trick, or have no trick and get a bad performance.

  

  Nico Muhly
  • Writing
  • Performance
  • Trick

• The life of every man is an endlessly repeated performance of the life of man.

  

  Edwin Muir
  • Life
  • Performance
  • Repeated

• A great performance like Lady Macbeth may be forgotten. Writing endures.

  

  Susan Strasberg
  • Writing
  • Forgotten
  • Endures

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

  

  Dan Poynter
  • Work
  • Performance
  • Criticize

• Once you recognize that all documentaries are performance, it's not a matter of 'if' they should be performance. They are performance, and they are performance precisely where people are playing themselves.

  

  Joshua Oppenheimer
  • Playing
  • Performance
  • Documentaries

• Because watercolor actually moves on the paper, it is the most active of all mediums, almost a performance art.

  

  Nita Engle
  • Performance
  • Paper
  • Watercolors

• 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.

  

  Katie Hopkins
  • World
  • Women
  • Equal

• Remember your six P's - Perfect Practice Prevents Piss Poor Performance.

  

  Chuck Knox
  • Remember
  • Performance
  • Prevents

• The White House is now essentially a TV performance.

  

  Edmund Snow Carpenter
  • Performance
  • TV
  • White House

• I don't particularly love live performance of my music. I love writing and recording, but you can't make money off of that.

  

  Ben Rosenfield
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Money

• A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I've seen actors do that. But often it's a mechanical transformation, which isn't as interesting, and you've got to be careful how you go about something like that, I think.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Great
  • Interesting
  • Actor

• When I first thought about becoming Jane Austen I had to forget about the fear, or at least choose something else to focus on because it was becoming paralysing, I couldn't focus. I felt frightened, not so much by her fans' reaction to my performance but that I would be playing someone who I think is a legend, who I respect and admire so much. I didn't want to fail, so I was putting a lot of pressure on myself.

  

  Anne Hathaway
  • Focus
  • Forget
  • Pressure

• 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.

  

  Eric Jerome Dickey
  • Love
  • Connection
  • Attraction

• In competitive archery, risk assessment has minimal bearing on quality of performance, since the archer has so little choice over shot selection. By contrast, in a hunt, shots vary in quality according to how well selected they may be.

  

  Ernest Sosa
  • Choice
  • Selection
  • Hunt

• A certain rough-around-the-edges improvisational looseness - a sense of something coming together before your eyes, or not quite - may be one of the things that distinguishes performance art from theater.

  

  Roberta Smith
  • Something
  • Certain
  • Improvisational

• You know yourself what you are worth in your own eyes; and at what price you will sell yourself. For men sell themselves at various prices. This is why, when Florus was deliberating whether he should appear at Nero's shows, taking part in the performance himself, Agrippinus replied, 'Appear by all means.' And when Florus inquired, 'But why do not you appear?' he answered, 'Because I do not even consider the question.'

  

  Epictetus
  • Question
  • Performance
  • Price

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