Quotes About Performance

I have a reputation for not turning up to sing. It's something I want very badly to get rid of.

The real success in golf lies in turning three shots into two.

British actors are pretty good, by and large, at turning on at 'action' and off at 'cut.'

Runners are competitive folks. I think some might feel slighted they haven't got more recognition. I think they have a point. In running, you won't necessarily get noticed just for turning in good performances.

When have you ever heard of a cantor or any artist turning anyone down when he is strongly urged to perform?

I heard Tony Bennett say that when you're a big deal early on, you have to maintain that level forever, and it's very scary. You have to keep hitting those home runs, turning out hits.

It's our approach to treat each show like an arena show. We over-invest in production to make the stage look bigger, turning the show into an experience and not just somebody standing around with a microphone rapping.

I love the privilege of looking back on my life every three years, turning it into a comedy show, and sharing it with an audience. It's incredibly cathartic.

Turning the ball over is something you don't want to do as a quarterback.

Sales have never been a source of joy for me in terms of my music. It's really about who's turning up at your shows, what people are saying about it.

Music and television are turning into the equivalent of gymnastics and tennis: sports built entirely around the identification and training of prodigies.

I'd much rather be in this position where people might be talking about me as a contender than turning up and sort of being a no-show.

Turning heel was so much fun for me. I was so over being a babyface.

Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 6' was the turning point in my career.

I went to work. That was a turning point. When you have to do eight shows a week and your name is on the marquee, no matter what is going on at home or what's on the cover of the newspapers, you've got to do your job.

I found an agent midway through my year-long run at 'Grease' and just started to audition. I fortunately booked 'South Pacific' six months after 'Grease' was over, and I feel like that was a huge turning point in legitimizing myself in the Broadway community, and getting to do that was absolutely amazing.

But 30 is a turning point in most footballers' lives - because your market value starts to fall.

When determining appropriate levels of compensation, management must determine if the employee turnover rate is too low, too high, or just right. If turnover rate is high enough to adversely impact the entity's performance, then employee compensation is probably too low.

If you win the turnover battle, you're gonna win more than you lose - and quite a bit more than you lose.

Every game, well most of them, come down to turnovers and the turnover battle.

A box-office number is good for a producer and the industry to keep the turnover game on, but as an actor, I give importance to script. I will turn down a script, even if it guarantees Rs. 100 crore, when I'm not convinced with it.

I always thought I'd be good at musicals, and it turns out I make up for my lack of skill with enthusiasm.

I can feel very brave through all the action scenes in front of the people who are on the set, but when a girl comes close to me my face turns red because I'm so shy.

I have played in matches where individuals have frozen and gone into their shells: they don't want the ball, they don't communicate, and they don't do their jobs. Fear turns them to stone.