Quotes About Performance

Since he had nothing better to do well in, he did well in school.

When salesmen are doing well, there is pressure upon them to begin doing better, for fear they may start doing worse.

Gold had discovered, since starting to exercise strenuously several years before, that he was able to make love with greater vitality, stamina, and self-control than formerly, and with much less pleasure.

the land of opportunity, where credentials mattered less than demonstrated ability.

Focus totally on the routine, and thoughts of results are less likely to imperil any of your transitions.

The passion that transforms life, and art, did not seem to be mine. But in all essentials, my life was a good performance.

Writing concurrent programs in Java keeps getting easier, but writing concurrent programs that are correct and fast is as difficult as it ever was.

premature optimization is the root of all evil. —Donald E. Knuth [

In other words, it is about 50 times slower to create and destroy objects with finalizers.

Life's a show and we all play a part And when the music starts We open up our hearts

I'd better go before Kitty tries to act again.

All actors are whores. They want only one thing: to seduce you.

Acting is the loneliest profession I know.

A man will reveal his true self, or so it seems, on the tennis court.

But so like Hollywood people, who played at the emotions they truly felt. Or maybe the emotions they truly felt could only be expressed in play?

The aim of theater—Aristotle said it first, and Aristotle said it best—is to arouse profound emotion in the spectator and through this arousal to effect a catharsis of the soul. If there's

If your thoughts have convinced you that you can never do anything right, you'll tend to make more mistakes than normal and have a high rate of failure.

Jesus had much to say to the Pharisees of His day. They had a polished performance, kept the laws, followed all the rules and regulations, and were proud of it. They also had a judgmental attitude toward others, did not walk in love, and showed no mercy. Jesus called them whitewashed tombs full of dead men's bones (Matthew 23:27).

Jerry: I think anyone should do whatever they like. I don't think there should be any rules. Judd: As long as it gets laughs? Jerry: If it doesn't get laughs, you're not gonna get work, and you're not gonna be a comedian. So the audience ultimately decides. It's a very democratic system.

Irigaray remarks in such a vein that the masquerade... is what women do... in order to participate in man's desire, but at the cost of giving up their own.

We do things with language, produce effects with language, and we do things to language, but language is also the thing that we do. Language is a name for our doing: both "what" we do (the name for the action that we characteristically perform) and that which we effect, the act and its consequences.

El género no es exactamente lo que uno «es» ni tampoco precisamente lo que uno «tiene». El género es el aparato a través del cual tiene lugar la producción y la normalización de lo masculino y lo femenino

EÄŸer toplumsal cinsiyet transvestit ise, ve eÄŸer bu, yaklaÅŸmay? denediÄŸi ideali düzenli olarak doÄŸuran bir taklitse, o zaman toplumsal cinsiyet, bir içsel cinsiyet ya da öz ya da psiÅŸik toplumsal cinsiyet çekirdeÄŸi yan?lsamas?n? doÄŸuran bir temsildir; içsel derinlik yan?lsamas?n? tende, jestle, hareketle, yürüyüÅŸle (cinsiyetin takdimi olarak anla??lan bedensel temsiller silsilesiyle) doÄŸurur.

Hayat her kesin kendine düÅŸen rolü oynad??? bir tiyatro sahnesidir,.