Quotes About Performance

Don't confuse God's love with the love of people. The love of people often increases with performance and decreases with mistakes. Not so with God's love. He loves you right where you are.

In the great orchestra we call life, you have an instrument and a song, and you owe it to God to play them both sublimely.

Trust God's hold on you more than your hold on God. His faithfulness does not depend on yours. His performance is not predicated on yours. His love is not contingent on your own. Your candle may flicker, but it will not expire.

II y a deux sortes de gens. Il y a ceux qui vivent, jouent et meurent. Et il y a ceux qui ne font jamais rien d'autre que se tenir en équilibre sur l'arête de la vie. Il y a les acteurs. Et il y a les funambules.

Ir divu veidu cilv?ki. Ir tie, kas dz?vo, sp?l? un mirst. Un tie, kas nekad nedara neko citu, k? vien turas l?dzsvar? uz dz?ves smailes. Ir aktieri. Un ir virves dejot?ji.

Skill in any performance whether it be in sports in playing the piano in conversation or in selling merchandise consists not in painfully and consciously thinking out each action as it is performed but in relaxing and letting the job do itself through you. Creative performance is spontaneous and 'natural' as opposed to self-conscious and studied.

Schubert Impromptus that Louise Bogan gave me—Opus 90 and Opus 142, Gieseking.

Poetry is music for the human voice. Until you actually speak it or someone speaks it, it has not come into its own.

Sing from the diaphragm, Princess," was what Madame Puissant kept yelling. "No breathing from the chest. From the DIAPHRAGM! No chest voice! SING FROM THE DIAPHRAGM! LIFT!!! LIFT!!!!

Until that moment, it hadn't occurred to me that my grades and test scores over the years were anything more than individual humiliations; I hadn't realized that one day all of them would add up and count against me.

The audience comes to the theatre set to believe the story. The actor comes to the theatre to help tell the story, not by tricking himself into believing things he knows aren't true, but by applying the tools he has developed to create an illusion.

all three Bardic Talents: the Gift, the Skill, and the Creativity.

In a way, watching an attractive, potentially dangerous guy play guitar is a little like watching a tiger agree to do tricks for his trainer. You know that they could just turn and kill you. But you're so flattered and pleased that instead they agreed to stand on a decorative box and wave and count for the crowd that for a while you forget how big the scary part of them really is.

TO: ALL TEACHERS FROM: JAMES J. MCHABE, ADM. ASST. PLEASE PLOT AND HAND IN THE MEDIAN PERCENTILE CURVE BASED ON THE MIDTERM MARKS IN EACH OF YOUR CLASSES. IF A CLASS CURVE FALLS BELOW THE PERCENTILE OF FAILURES ALLOTTED TO IT, THE EFFICACY OF THE TEACHER MUST BE QUESTIONED. TEACHERS WITH THE HIGHEST NUMBER OF PASSING STUDENTS ARE TO BE COMMENDED. JJ McH

Influence could get me inside the door, but my productivity and the quality of my work were the real tests.

It's not what you know but the kind of job you do that makes the difference.

It's not what you know but the kind of job you do that makes the difference.

Is this what they mean by courage? Simple doing all the things you were trained to do, albeit everything at once and very fast.

In rowing," Tyler said, "sometimes there's one guy in your boat who slows the whole thing down. He might mean well. He might be trying as hard, or even harder, than anyone else, but it doesn't matter, he's weighing everyone down. We call that guy an anchor." And with that, the twins left the building.

The stock market's performance depends on three factors: real growth (the rise of companies' earnings and dividends) inflationary growth (the general rise of prices throughout the economy) speculative growth—or decline (any increase or decrease in the investing public's appetite for stocks)

you must deliberately protect yourself against serious losses; you must aspire to "adequate," not extraordinary, performance.

Instead, let's tune out the noise and think about future returns as Graham might. The stock market's performance depends on three factors: real growth (the rise of companies' earnings and dividends) inflationary growth (the general rise of prices throughout the economy) speculative growth—or decline (any increase or decrease in the investing public's appetite for stocks)

First of all, recognize that an index fund—which owns all the stocks in the market, all the time, without any pretense of being able to select the "best" and avoid the "worst"—will beat most funds over the long run.

What else should you watch for? Most fund buyers look at past performance first, then at the manager's reputation, then at the riskiness of the fund, and finally (if ever) at the fund's expenses. The intelligent investor looks at those same things—but in the opposite order.