Quotes About Performance

Third and most important: I don't really care what a public figure thinks. I care about what he does. Let God probe his inner heart. Tell me about his outer acts.

All successful employers are stalking men who will do the unusual, men who think, men who attract attention by performing more than is expected of them.

sociologist Erving Goffman suggested that life is a series of performances in which we are all continually managing the impression we give other people.

Many curmudgeons believe that a malady afflicts many of today's twenty-somethings: their sense of entitlement. It is their impression that too many of you think doing routine office tasks is beneath you, and your supervisors are insufficiently sensitive to your needs. Curmudgeons are also likely to think that you have a higher opinion of your abilities than your performance warrants.

The greatest actors can create a human being before the very eyes of spectators – not show them something beforehand like a puppet. To go out onto the stage and become the character at a moment of crisis and speak without knowing what you are going to say until the words come out! To court that danger and to triumph, that is the great adventure that life offers. The incomparable adventure. Don't you see that?

Unfortunately, the technological fixes have frequently only enabled those who run the commercial airlines, the general aviation community, and the military to run greater risks in search of increased performance.

workload has become more "bunched," with long periods of inactivity and short bursts of intense activity. Both of these are error-inducing modes of operation.

Even if they never got anything for it, it was cheap at that price. Without malice aforethought I had given them the best show that was ever staged in their territory since the landing of the Pilgrims! It was easily worth fifteen million bucks to watch me put the thing over.

Make 'em laugh; make 'em cry; make 'em wait.

A cough is the basic sign of inattention. Musicians never, in my experience, cough when playing in public.

I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.

Charles Simic, when asked what he thought of Slam Poetry events: "They are fun, but they have as much to do with poetry as Elvis Presley had to do with Charlie Parker and Thelonious Monk".

I think that, every time you see the word EBITDA, you should substitute the words "bullshit earnings.

It's not possible for investors to consistently outperform the market. Therefore you're best served investing in a diversified portfolio of low-cost index funds [or exchange-traded funds].

But at the same time, I'm guilty, too. Guilty of playing this role. Letting it define me. Internalizing the role so completely that I've lost track of where reality starts and the performance begins. And letting that define how I see other people. I'm as guilty of it as anyone. Fetishizing Black people and their coolness. Romanticizing White women. Wishing I were a White man. Putting myself into this category.

the performer comes to be his own audience; he comes to be the performer and observer

the performer comes to be his own audience; he comes to be the performer and observer of the same show.

But at the same time, I'm guilty too. Guilty of playing this role, letting it define me, internalizing the role so completely that I've lost track of where reality starts and the performance begins.

Staying in character avoided all of that, allowed you to prolong your respective roles for just a bit longer,

I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born.

The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.

Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman, and a pretty girl.

Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.