Quotes About Performance

Each and every day, I think about the importance of earning my paycheck and playing well.

On stage, you've got dialogue you've learned. You've got a paying audience. It couldn't be better, you know?

I never had a paying job that was not in theatre.

Many people do think it's naive to improvise in front of paying customers. I'm not saying one way is better than another.

People aren't paying to see the Kevin McHale show, they're paying to see the cast of 'Glee.'

Even the idea of people paying to hear me shouting into a microphone for an hour is alien to me - and I hope it always will be.

People are paying to see me. You've got to give something back.

When you put an album out, you can't do any material from the album if people are paying to see you.

I have no problem paying my dues and I have no problem going out and working the club circuit.

Sometimes if you get 'em too drunk they don't pay no attention to what you're doin' anyways, so you might as well just do old songs. But if you get one that's paying attention, sometimes we'll do some new material.

There's only one shot you have at a movie, and that's your best shot. If you can't give it that, don't go. They're paying you! You gotta do a job for them.

I wouldn't inflict my naked body on any paying audience.

It's very difficult to consistently hit good iron shots if you get off to a bad start. That's why I'm always paying attention to my setup and takeaway.

Every time I come out, there's more and more people paying attention, so I gotta show out every time.

When you're paying millions of dollars for somebody to coach your team, you can find somebody good.

When you first start out in the music business and hope that you have a couple hits, the ultimate payoff is to be standing in front of all those people who are singing it back to you at the top of their lungs. And you know by the way they're singing it back that it's affected their life in some way. That's the ultimate reward as an artist for me.

When we started Workday, we were originally very focused on the core HR system. Then we added payroll, and then we got into performance management.

I've got my ideal job. I like to sing, I like to dance, I like to bang drums and dress up, and someone pays me - it's incredible.

You find out your mistakes from an audience that pays admission.

When I play discos in Belfast or freshers' week in Oxford, there are 1,800 kids dressed as me. It's odd, it's funny, and it pays really well.

In business, no one pays you to have a really good year and then 10 bad years.

Often in my game as an actor, someone else pays for your travel and there's nothing like being able to lie flat on a flight home from L.A.

It's, 'Honey, where's the peacock outfit? What about my leather pants?' You have to swat them clean with a brush. And when the makeup artist passed out, I had to finish. That's why Todd would have two different kinds of eye makeup on.

I've always been interested in peak performance, why some people do better in life than others.