Quotes About Performance

The men performed their roles like actors trapped in a morality play

You never help others by allowing them to getaway with giving less than their best efforts.

Aim at performance, and low cost will follow. Aim at low cost, and you will not achieve sufficient performance to have an enduring business. After a sufficient system is devised, demand will foster economies of scale and learning curves that bring the price down over time.

The theatre is an attack on mankind carried on by magic: to victimize an audience every night, to make them laugh and cry and suffer and miss their trains. Of course actors regard audiences as enemies, to be deceived, drugged, incarcerated, stupefied. This is partly because the audience is also a court against which there is no appeal.

The theatre is an attack on mankind carried on by magic: to victimize an audience every night, to make them laugh and cry and suffer and miss their trains.

Emotions really exist at the bottom of the personality or at the top. In the middle they are acted. This is why all the world is a stage…

I went on seeing him, but it was like acting in some nightmarish play.

Singing is of course a form of aggression.

Of course men play roles, but women play roles too, blanker ones. They have, in the play of life, fewer good lines.

The train was nearly twenty minutes late, an excellent performance by British Rail standards.

You cannot make your shimmy shake on tea

The unwritten motto of United States Robot and Mechanical Men Corp. was well-known: "No employee makes the same mistake twice. He is fired the first time.

So, in a Civil Service where smooth and sociable performance was more useful than an individualistic competence, Enderby went up the scale quickly, and was at the Commissioner level when Baley himself was nothing more than a C-5.

No employee makes the same mistake twice. He is fired the first time.

Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music.

Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music. -Isaac Stern

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I want to get down to the nuts and bolts of what is actually going to change to lift New Zealand's economic performance.

I put on close to 60 pounds for 'Genesis,' an independent movie from New Zealand.

Everybody recommends New Zealand. I really want to learn this haka, the traditional dance - I love it; it's so cool.

I've wrestled in Seoul; I've wrestled in Auckland, New Zealand.

I had the honor of doing a two-man show with Julie Andrews around Australia and New Zealand.

In Australia and New Zealand I had big, big success.

I played to the biggest audience I've ever played to in my life in New Zealand. I couldn't see the end of the crowd. I understand it was over 200,000 people in a park somewhere.