Quotes About Performance

Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.

In other words, in Jesus' demand to live righteously, which runs through the Sermon, we see an Ethic from Above, from Below, and from Beyond—but it is an ethic his followers are to perform. The best way to preach the Sermon is to preach what it is: a demand on the disciple.

I have infinite capacity to do more work as long as you don't mind that my quality approaches zero.

Dance like it hurts. Love like you need money. Work when people are watching. -- Dogbert's Motto

When you hire that first person, then you're a boss. You've got performance reviews. You've got complaints about not making enough money. You've got people who are just going to sell your story to the tabloids.

I have infinite capacity to do more work as long as you don't mind that my quality approaches zero.

You want to try and bring a character to life in an honest a way as you possibly can. It doesn't matter whether he's a doctor, an actor, a car salesman or a captain of a starship. If you can bring truth and honesty to that character, then your audience will believe you.

In this age, being seen as an "expert" may have little bearing on the "expert's" ability to do the thing she is supposedly an expert in.

If removing a restriction improves performance or has no impact on performance but improves morale, everyone wins.

If you want to learn the secrets of any performer, see his show twice. Then you'll notice how much of what seems improvised truly is.

Self-motivated people thrive when granted independence. Managers who want better performance must provide what their staff needs.

we are always performing. Any time you open your mouth and expect someone to listen, you are behaving differently than you would if you were alone. Admitting this doesn't make you a phony — it makes you honest. We are social creatures and behave differently to fit into different social situations.

The trap is that even if you find a good metric that avoids the trap IBM fell into, people will naturally, even subconsciously, work to game the metric.

You see a similar downward spiral at schools that try to measure teacher performance. They create new student tests for evaluating teachers that reduce time teachers have to teach real lessons, which lowers their scores, which, sad surprise, leads to more testing.

the more complex performance reviews become, the less effective they are.

A good sign as a leader is when output is high and meetings are short.

I'd take a great team with bad methods over a lousy team with great methods any day.

Too often I see performances that aren't rooted in truth. Oftentimes, those are performances that tend to win awards.

If we can understand how to leverage diversity to achieve better performance and greater robustness, we might anticipate and prevent collapses.

He didn't broadcast it, but Archie Leach once worked in Nashville on a bill with four performing seals.

Duke was not what you would call a natural actor, but he learned. And when he learned, he mastered one of the hardest things of all - to act natural. And he does it so well that a lot of people still don't know he's acting. - Paul Fix

Without strength and courage it's really hard to perform at the highest levels of international figure skating, because you're alone on the ice and you only have seven minutes over two nights to prove yourself.

My job was to make sure that my pain was not visible to the audience. They came to escape their troubles, not to be drawn into my own pain.

Ibelius," said Jean. "If what Locke is doing were lurking about, corpses could be acrobats.