Quotes About Performance

Impeccability is to act to the very best of your ability upon whatever knowledge happens to be available to you at any given moment.

Monk's reasons for dancing during a performance: "I get tired sitting down at the piano! That way I can dig the rhythm better.

surroundings, and the venture was not a great success. One flop followed another. Not even the presence of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra at a command performance of The Crossways on 8 December 1902 could save the situation.

On the stage you're there, it's live. There's a beginning, a middle, an end. When something is funny you hear it right away.

For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.

Credit should go with the performance of duty, and not with what is very often the accident of glory.

the average cannot be kept high unless the standard of the leaders is very much higher.

By the way, both the men of my regiment and the friends I had made in the old days in the West were themselves a little puzzled at the interest shown in my making my speech after being shot. This was what they expected, what they accepted as the right thing for a man to do under the circumstances, a thing the non-performance of which would have been discreditable rather than the performance being creditable.

Life is about doing, not thinking about doing.

We've got a first class leader at the moment. David Cameron is dealing with the issues that he was left by the last government very well indeed.

For voters what matters is what government actually delivers for them.

In football you always get judged on your last game. Whoever you are, or how amazing you are, it's the last game that everyone has seen.

So when I go home, sometimes, even when I had an amazing game, I always think about what I missed.

Research shows that when you receive frequent interruptions while working on a task, your performance drops the equivalent of ten IQ points. In other words, when you multi-task you are ten points dumber on the core task than you are if you just focused on the core task. Some of us cannot afford to multi-task.1

I once got hit with a taser at a concert and everyone thought I was dancing. Now I have to do that dance, at every show for the rest of my life, or admit that a taser can damage the Thom Yorke. —Thom Yorke, whispering to himself

At the Day of Judgement we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done.

On the day of judgment, it will be demanded of us not what we have read, but what we have done.

The performance of an action is worthless in itself, if it is not done out of charity. Charity must be our motive; then everything we do, however little and insignificant, bears a rich harvest. After all, what God takes into account is not so much the thing we do, as the love that went to the doing of it.

Most network providers do not sell latency, just bandwidth.

All human beings must perform according to their nature.

A good umpire, like a good FBI agent, is never noticed if he is doing his job.

The naked pinch hitter takes only one thing to the plate: his raw, and somewhat irrational, confidence in himself. That this confidence is so unreasonable adds to its dignity.

Democracy, on this new occasion, finds all Kings conscious that they are but Play-actors.

You can be a bit more naughty with a live show.