Quotes About Performance

Formula for success Underpromise and overdeliver.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class.

Higher levels of employee brand ownership = higher levels of organisational performance. Its as simple as that.

The most fertile soil does not necessarily produce the most abundant harvest. It is the use we make of our faculties which renders them valuable.

The theatre is supremely fitted to say: Behold! These things are. Yet most dramatists employ it to say: This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.

On the stage it is always now.

A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.

the theatre was the greatest of all the arts.

I regard the theater as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being. This supremacy of the theater derives from the fact that it is always "now" on the stage.

would always advise any young writer for the theater to do everything—to adapt plays, to translate plays, to hang around theaters, to paint scenery, to become an actor. . . . There's a bottomless pit in the acquisition of how to tell an imagined story to listeners and viewers.

Under all that sunny generosity of Wilder's, who's really there? What's under that mask? Is there a mask? Theater is the place of masks. Do the three

Magician, musician. Same thing. A little hocus pocus and a whole lot of faith, right?

I'm aware if I'm playing at my best I'm tough to beat. And I enjoy that.

I think there's a percentage [of the audience] that don't realize, that don't know that [standup] is how everything began. We planned it, we work hard, rehearsals to get this. It's more of a ... it's not just coming in there in a T-shirt and holding a microphone.

I may go back and spice it up with a little bit of the tool stuff and grunting and all that that I know so well. But it feels like I'm rehashing old material. And some of my audiences like that. So I'm there to entertain. I'm not there to make a political statement or anything like that. I'm there to entertain.

I had a very easy time loving an audience. But when it's one-on-one with somebody, all I wanted to do was run away, because maybe they're going to want something from me I can't give, or they're going to hurt me.

Deep down in all of us there is a tendency to want to prove ourselves, to base our worth on what we do.

How will we live if we think we need to earn God's approval? How will we live if we are confident we have God's approval in Christ?

Never judge a team by its past performance. On any given day, any team can beat another

I have no problems doing a song or a cameo. You never know what can bring success - just like the role I did in Buddhivanta.'

On any given night - there are nights that you feel better. There are nights that you are vocally better. There are nights that you are not as vocally good. No question about it.

There's no question in my mind that I think I would have been a better president than Barack Obama has been.

I think acting really helps as a director. It's just no question, because you totally understand the acting process.

Pressure is always on if you don't perform. There is no question.