Quotes About Performance

traders and salespeople were only manageable when they were unprofitable, in which case they weren't wanted.

When he blew up, close to a couple of decades of performance were overshadowed by a single event that only lasted a few minutes.

The more uncertainty, the more role for optionality to kick in, and the more you will outperform.

He could sustain the pain if he saw only weekly performance numbers, instead of updates every minute.

Those who talk should do and only those who do should talk

They are left alone to do as they please, provided of course that their results satisfy the executives.

Other professions allow you to add zeroes to your output (and your income), if you do well, at little or no extra effort.

his presence is needed at every performance

I later got some plausible explanation from evolutionary psychology, which claims that such physical manifestations of one's performance in life, just like an animal's dominant condition, can be used for signaling: It makes the winners seem easily visible, which is efficient in mate selection.

Creo que la poesía y el teatro requieren las mismas cosas. Creo que requieren una absoluta inmovilidad, un pleno abandono, una total atención, un profundo silencio.

In later years I never put aside this kind of inquiry, that is, into the modes of thinking and representation embedded in a text, but I asked new questions about ways of writing and the forms and rituals of discourse. I began to look not only at what was stated or declared in a text, but also at what was suggested through expression, through performance.

Being with her was like being backstage during an amateurish, ridiculous play.

I cannot organize my behaviour optimally if my goal is merely to do my best. The assignment is too vague.

Love is not felt to be real when it is always tied to performance, tied to living up to Mother's or Father's expectations

Jim Crow, moreover, was seen executing his world-renowned dance, in gingerbread.

But, to tell you my private mind, Signor Giovanni, he should receive little credit for such instances of success - they being probably the work of chance - but should be held strictly accountable for his failures, which may justly be considered his own work.

The devoted sister had solemn thoughts of thrumming on its chords for Clifford's benefit, and accompanying the performance with her voice. Poor Clifford! Poor Hepzibah! Poor harpsichord!

A workhorse, not a show horse

Bring on the dancing bear!

Second place meant first loser.

This is all a little theatrical, don't you think?" Greyson commented. "Ah, but theater is the hallmark of ritual, and ritual is the touchstone of religion," Mendoza responded.

You're afraid of the audience, aren't you? Yes, but it's not stagefright. It's that I'm there as the geek. They like to watch me eat my shit. But it pays the light bill and takes me to the racetrack. I don't have any excuses about why I do it.

you are alone, Chinaski, and below the stage the seats are empty. the theatre is dark. why do you keep acting? what a bad habit.

Remember what the pros say, "If you've got to lose, lose in front.