Quotes About Performance

Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.

It's like Tom Waits said," Petty remarks. "'I'm an artist, but I'm still in show business.

Tap is a school for syncopation that's also a school of song. "There's a dynamic that's used in tap dancing," explains Steve Ferrone, "that's the same as what you use when you're playing the drums. You build into the chorus. You have the introduction, the verse, all of that. I tap danced to 'Georgia,' slow. And I won a car doing it.

Theatre sports is the best improv training period.

I knew at a young age, whether I was playing baseball or hockey or lacrosse, that my teammates were counting on me, whether it be to strike the last batter out in a baseball game or score a big goal in a hockey game.

Play your part in the comedy, but don't identify yourself with your role.

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I took an acting class. After the first day, the teacher quit, so they said take another. When I saw 'How to be a Stand-up Comedian ' it resonated. I realized I'd rather make 200 people laugh than make one person cry.

I sigh. I wonder if practicing in my head counts. I can easily picture myself doing a perfect routine. Somehow it comes out differently once gravity gets involved.

Like Andy Rooney and Judy Garland screaming "Let's put on a play!" the

Their conscious selves expected diminishing returns. The average estimate of new endings was about five, which was fewer than they had produced in the initial four minutes. They were then given an additional four minutes to work. The actual number of new endings they generated was 20 percent higher than they estimated. They didn't give persistence enough credit.

Every political action consequently threatens to become an automatic farce in a spectropolitical theater.

Backstage controls the show, not the audience."

Life is a show and you decide when it starts.

There are clowns who make you laugh, there are clowns who laugh with you and there are clowns who laugh at you."

The consequence for not adequately training your Huns is their failure to accomplish that which is expected of them.

When I was doing ensemble theater and comedy work, I felt I had some talents. But when I started doing my shows in Berkeley and found that I could be funny on my own, I was shocked.

The audience has been lined up for over an hour already, and I know from experience that an audience's willingness to enjoy your show is inversely proportional to the amount of time you keep them waiting past the time on the ticket, which is, in this case, 8 p.m.

Gelehrte dirigieren ist nicht viel besser als eine Komödiantengruppe unter sich zu haben.

Two weeks later, we played our first concert and had 100 people there. It was pretty cool.

There is good reason to believe that general intelligence is likely to be associated with better judgment. Intelligence is correlated with good performance in virtually all domains. All other things being equal, it is associated not only with higher academic achievement but also with higher job performance.

Companies with pronounceable names do better than others for the first week after the stock is issued

But we should not expect performance in officer training and in combat to be predictable from behavior on an obstacle field—behavior both on the test and in the real world is determined by many factors that are specific to the particular situation. Remove

A correlation of .30 implies that you would find the stronger CEO leading the stronger firm in about 60% of the pairs—an improvement of a mere 10 percentage points over random guessing, hardly grist for the hero worship of CEOs we so often witness.