Quotes About Performance

Because a happy worker is a more productive worker?

You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.

Those who fear public speaking actually fear the loss of identity that attaches to performing badly, and that is firmly rooted in our survival needs.

The concept of appropriate supervision can be stated in six words: praise for performance—correction for errors.

An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance, while also providing alternative opportunities to reward the skills of children who learn differently.

Discrepancies in educational performances—This is often one of the most obvious indicators of dyslexia.

My first impulse is not to grab her or kiss her or yell at her. I simple want to touch her cheek, still flushed from the night's performance. I want to cut through the space that separates us, measured in feet-not miles, not continents, not years-and to take a callused finger to her face.

entonces Adam Wilde aparece en Carnegie Hall en la noche más grande de mi carrera, y se sintió como más que una coincidencia. Se sintió como un regalo. De ellos. Para mi primer recital, me dieron un violonchelo. Y para éste, me dieron tu presencia. -Mia

For my first recital ever, they gave me a cello. And for this one, they gave me you.

Our seats were in the balcony. Nosebleeds. But you don't go to Yo-Yo Ma for the view, and the sound was incredible. That man has a way of making the cello sound like a crying woman one minute, a laughing child the next. . Listening to him, I'm always reminded of why I started playing cell in the first place --- that there is something so human and expressive about it.

Oh honey, have you learned nothing from these plays? Ain't such a line between faking and being.

Bagaiamana dad mengatasi demam panggung?" "Kau tidak mengatasinya. Kau hanya perlu melaluinya. Kau bertahan.

If you're not careful, the viola can make the most awful screech,

without hands, there'd be no music

For my first recital ever, they gave me a cello. And for this one, they gave me you." Every hair on my body stands on end,

Now I was laughing. I was still scared, but it was somehow comforting to think that maybe stage fright was a trait [even my parents had]... "But seriously, how do you get over the jitters?" Dad was still smiling, but I could tell he had turned serious because he slowed down his speech. "You don't. You just work through it. You hang in there." So I went on.

Temía ir a los conciertos con Adam. No era por celos ni porque no fuera mi estilo de música. De hecho, me encantaba verlo tocar. Cuando estaba en el escenario, era como si la guitarra se convirtiera en una prolongación natural de su cuerpo.

So I turn the mic toward the fields, and the crowd just goes insane, singing my song, chanting my plea. I leave them at it and I take a little walk around the stage. The rest of the band sees what's going on so they just keep repping the chorus. When I get closer to the side of the stage, I see her there, where she always felts most comfortable, thought for the foreseeable future, she'll be the one out here in the spotlight, and I'll be the one in the wings, and that feels right, too.

When the lights come up after the concert, I feel drained, lugubrious, as though my blood has been secreted out of me and replaced with tar.

Todo el mundo es un escenario, y todos los hombres y mujeres meros actores: tienen sus salidas y sus entradas; y un hombre en su tiempo interpreta muchos papeles...

An organization is only as effective as its processes.

a construct for organizing value-adding work to achieve a business-value milestone in a way that meets three specific criteria: 1. Effective and efficient performance 2. Effective management 3. Competitive advantage

With the help of modern technology, I can compose intricate keyboard parts and then I have to go back and learn them in order to perform them properly.

We may not care to play the part of public jesters ourselves, but the least we can do is to be grateful to those who are willing to become absurd for our benefit. Patronize them daintily, therefore, lest they backslide into propriety.