Quotes About Performance

An accountability partner provides frank, objective feedback on your performance, creates an ongoing expectation for productive progress, and can provide critical brainstorming or even expertise when needed.

Researchers estimate we lose 28 percent of an average workday to multitasking ineffectiveness.

To quote Nass, "Multitaskers were just lousy at everything." Multitasking is a lie.

Multitasking is merely the opportunity to screw up more than one thing at a time." —Steve Uzzell

When you try to do two things at once, you either can't or won't do either well.

The ballerina is a classic example. When the ballerina poses en pointe, she can appear weightless, floating on air, the very idea of balance and grace. A closer look would reveal her toe shoes vibrating rapidly, making minute adjustments for balance. Counterbalancing done well gives the illusion of balance.

Hanging out with people who seek success will strengthen your motivation and positively push your performance.

A brilliant strategy, blockbuster product, or breakthrough technology can put you on the competitive map, but only solid execution can keep you there.

Employees at three out of every five companies rated their organization weak at execution

In addressing only structure, management had attacked the visible symptoms of poor performance but not the underlying cause—how people made decisions and how they were held accountable.

The whole kiss-and-tell thing is a negative approach that often happens in a World Cup. We will see negative stories about the players and it can affect their confidence and the overall performance of the national team on the pitch, let alone the bid to actually stage the competition.

The game of basketball] impressed me as a glut of scoring, with few patterns of attack, and almost no defense anymore. The players, in a sense, had gotten better than the game, and the game became uninteresting. Moreover, it attracted exhibitionists who seemed more intent on amazing a crowd with aimless prestidigitation than with advancing their team by giving a sound performance. A quote from John McPhee from _A Sense of Where You Are_

Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course: the space between your ears. —BOBBY JONES

Under pressure people can perform fifteen percent better or fifteen percent worse.

Ninety percent of the game is half mental. —YOGI BERRA

Doubts can be paralyzing. Confidence and trust are essential in every sport.

Athletes in the zone see everything with clarity. They are relaxed, they perform with a quiet mind, with no indecision and no doubts. They can almost anticipate what is going to happen. They are totally absorbed. Golfer Tony Jacklin likened the zone to being in a cocoon. Dave Winfield said, "I'm in my world.

Mentally tough athletes possess an inner strength. They often play their best when they're feeling their worst. They don't make excuses.

When you let anger get the best of you, it brings out the worst in you. The key question is who is in control—you or your emotions? Remember, before you can control your performance you need to be in control of yourself.

He had trained for years to prepare for that moment. When the spotlight came on and the music began, he let fate carry him through. The hard work was over. Now, he told himself, go out and enjoy.

With great athletes, their eyes aren't searchlights. They aren't even spotlights. They are laser beams.

Consistency separates good athletes from great ones. The best athletes win consistently because they think, act and practice consistently.

The level of confidence you hold in your ability to perform a task or skill is directly related to the level of certainty you hold in your mind about your ability to do it.

A coach once told me there are four factors that determine a players' performance: his tactical awareness, his physical condition, his technical ability and his mental strength.