Quotes About Performance

Given enough time—and assuming the existence of enough ranks in the hierarchy—each employee rises to, and remains at, his level of incompetence.

In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties.

Dr. Peter observed that one reason so many employees are incompetent is that the skills required to get a job often have nothing to do with what is required to do the job itself. The skills required to run a great political campaign have little to do with the skills required to govern.

one reason so many employees are incompetent is that the skills required to get a job often have nothing to do with what is required to do the job itself.

La competencia de un empleado no es determinada por los extraños, sino por su superior en la jerarquía.

In a Hierarchy Every Employee Tends to Rise to His Level of Incompetence

IT SHOULD BE clear by now that when an employee reaches his level of incompetence, he can no longer do any useful work. Incompetent, Yes! Idle, No! This in no way suggests that the ultimate promotion suddenly changes the former worker into an idler. Not at all! In most cases he still wants to work; he still makes a great show of activity; he sometimes thinks he is working. Yet actually little that is useful is accomplished

I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor-to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself.

Acting is illusion, as much illusion as magic is, and not so much a matter of being real.

the only acting advice he would give] What is acting but lying and what is good lying but convincing lying?

I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor - to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself.

Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.

Each test score had been lower than the last, reading like a strange weather forecast: ninety in September, mid-eighties in October, low seventies in November, sixties before Christmas.

I will perform My Heart Will Go On for the rest of my life and it will always remain a very emotional experience for me.

Always be the worst guy in every band you're in. - so you can learn. The people around you affect your performance. Choose your crowd wisely.

Jazz can be so serious, no sense of humor.

I've aways been good at picking up certain things, like sports and dancing.

'A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints' was the first real actor-actor part I did, and I hope I to do more. Action movies are fun, but I'd be happy not to do them if there are better roles.

The main thing to do is relax and let your talent do the work.

Stevie Wonder could make one of 23 shots." - On North Carolina missing 22 of its last 23 shots in losing to Georgetown in the NCAA tournament.

The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not

Creating a scene is thus the staging of a desire.

Ultimately the work has to command the podium. - David J. Schow

If not controlled, work will flow to the competent man until he submerges.