Performance Quotes
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Your success isn’t about you and your performance. It’s about us and how we perceive your performance.
Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
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If you seek to correct a subordinate’s overall behavior or performance, start by telling them what they do well, then tell them where they need to improve.
Hal Moore
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The best way to improve mental performance, is to improve physical performance.
Tim Ferriss
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The intensity with which Janis Joplin sings, you simply can't find a singer like that. It's almost scary the amount of emotion and energy and passion she puts into her performance.
Michael Wadleigh
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Once a film is shot, the thing that mostly happens is that I go see all the things I would have fixed in my performance and sometimes, very rarely, I see a moment that surprise me and I go, "Oh, that's not bad. That was nice."
James Cromwell
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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
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Baseball performance is an outcome of opposing forces.
Andrew Zimbalist
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It is the performance of the business that matters. It is hard enough to figure out the future of the business. Do not try to figure out the future of the country or the world; focus on the business.
Mohnish Pabrai
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Performance became part of my art in a way - expressing things and emotion.
Jessica Brown Findlay
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The high-performance packaging not only delivers distinction at point of sale, but also reflects the edgy personalities of products they hold.
Ed Martin
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I don't say that I never feel fear before a performance, but I have learned to channel it.
Claudio Arrau
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There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment - and you start to decline.
Andy Grove
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Performance constraints are good for creativity.
Alexander Stepanov
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The best kind of performance review is no performance review.
Aubrey Daniels
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History has a way of coming back to you. In the case of Janis Joplin appearing at the festival in 1968, her performance affected the life of a Bostonian who is now a member of the Newport Festivals Foundation Board of Directors. Ward Mooney was so affected and emotionally involved in Janis’ performance at Newport, that when he heard the festival was going nonprofit, he knew wanted to become a part. Janis was beautiful, gracious and respectful, and the power of her Newport performance continues to live on.
George Wein
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A champion is someone who does not settle for that day's practice, that day's competition, that day's performance. They are always striving to be better. They don't live in the past.
Briana Scurry
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There is something that you have that no one else ever had ... When you watch Kirk's Douglas performance in anything, in anything he's ever done, you cannot take your eyes off of him. It's not possible to look away from him.
Steven Spielberg
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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.
Mohammed Morsi
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For the actors, there's something very important about that first showing of the scene to the crew, becomes like a little performance.
Ewan McGregor
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I've always loved the drama and the creating of a role and performance and all that comes with that, but I then also kind of like to have just the white picket fence life if that makes sense.
Nicole Kidman
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I treat every time I walk on the stage like it's the performance of my life.
Eric Benet
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Among the many lessons that merge from the geologic record, perhaps the most sobering is that in life, as in mutual funds, past performance is no guarantee of future results.
Elizabeth Kolbert
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The team spirit was amazing. The key was our second-half performance. We didn't play as much rugby as we would have liked and we didn't play too smartly in the last five minutes.
Jason White Green Day
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We are so proud of the entire team's performance today in tough conditions.
Eric Knight