Quotes About Performance

These are the thinking zone, programming zone, and performance zone.

Coaching is unlocking people's potential to maximize their own performance.

Unless the manager or coach believes that people possess more capability than they are currently expressing, he will not be able to help them express it. He must think of his people in terms of their potential, not their performance. The majority of appraisal systems are seriously flawed for this reason. People are put in performance boxes from which it is hard for them to escape, either in their own eyes or their manager's.

The capacity is there, the crisis is the catalyst. But is crisis the only catalyst? And how long are we able to sustain extraordinary levels of performance? Some of this potential can be accessed by coaching, and performance can be sustainable, perhaps not at superhuman levels but certainly at levels far higher than we generally accept.

Coaching is unlocking people's potential to maximize their own performance. It is helping them to learn rather than teaching them.

Los líderes deben pensar en sus empleados en términos de su potencial, no de su rendimiento pasado.

Un pequeño grupo de personas con habilidades complementarias que comparten un propósito, metas de desempeño y maneras de trabajar juntas, por todo lo cual se hacen mutuamente responsables. KATZENBACH Y SMITH, The Wisdom of Teams

You can lose when you outscore somebody in a game. And you can win when you're outscored.

Although I wanted my players to work to win, I tried to convince them they had always won when they had done their best.

The one thing you are not good at is playing dumb.

Everything makes me nervous - except making films.

William, when you do gymnastics, you have to be honest about everything you do in the other parts of your life too. Otherwise, your body will deceive you and you won't be able to turn the tricks.

I sing like I feel.

The only thing better than singing is more singing.

Sonata No. 2 in B-flat Minor.

But one of the hardest things for me to do was to access anger. I could do it on stage. But when I did it on film it was hard for me. That probably has to do with the intimacy of film. And my own personal issues with expressing anger. So I had to learn how to do that.

This story is about the eschatology of shadow puppets.

Let a living faith run like threads of gold through the performance of even the smallest duties. Then all the daily work will promote Christian growth. There will be a continual looking unto Jesus. Love for Him will give vital force to everything that is undertaken.—My Life Today, p. 250.

Imagination! Imagination! I put it first years ago, when I was asked what qualities I thought necessary for success on the stage.

I never expected to get the Tom Jones treatment and it amazes me that I do. Strangely it's women who throw their underwear at me when I'm performing live. My male fans tend to be quite shy. My female fans are wild. I never know what to do with all the lingerie that lands at my feet. Maybe I should open a shop.

We have inadvertently designed a system in which being good at what you do as a teacher is not formally rewarded, while being poor at what you do is seldom corrected nor penalized.

I shouldn't think I'll have the slightest problem playing a man," she said. "I shall merely remember to rearrange my breeches in front at least once an hour, thereby drawing attention to the padding I carefully placed there in the morning, and I'll blend in perfectly.

There was some rustling as the gown was cast over the soprano's shoulders, or so Lina assumed, and then the alto and Madame Rocque started cooing. But the soprano cut through it decisively. 'I look like an orange without its rind,' she said firmly.

Our fingers are frustratingly accurate in using the information we give them. If we imagine sloppily, we play sloppily; if we imagine clearly and precisely, that is how we play.