Quotes About Performance

Mr. Tacker, who from his great experience in the performance of funerals, would have made an excellent pantomime actor, winked at Mrs. Gamp without at all disturbing the gravity of his countenance...

Author: a dancer of typewriter keys.

Saturday Night Live

There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

...even the best worker cannot beat a bad system...

I love to play a character. If I'm playing Cinderella or Aurora in 'Sleeping Beauty' or something like that, then I enjoy classical a lot. But to do just a two-minute solo, purely to show classical aesthetic, is not my favorite thing to do.

Anything is possible. No one understands how far you can push your body to the limit, and I like to play with that.

It's not too good to have this attitude in F1. It could be a disadvantage.

The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.

I always had the attitude that I wanted to throw a no-hitter every game.

You know, who cares about seeing the girls when everybody wants to see the band. That's what's important, KISS is important. I think we look great, and the attitude is there, and I'm real happy with it.

If you're going to have a bad attitude, you may as well not even tee it up that week because you probably won't play good anyways.

That term's definitely got a negative aura to it, because people think a diva is somebody with an attitude who demands things all the time. Of course there is that type of diva, but my idea of a diva has always been a singer – whether male or female – who gets on that stage and captivates you with their presence and their voice.

During 2001-2005, Mexico's growth performance has been miserable, with an annual growth rate of per capita income at 0.3% (or a paltry 1.7% increase in total over five years). By contrast, during the 'bad old days' of ISI (1955-82), Mexico's per capita income had grown much faster during the NAFTA period-at an average of 3.1% per year.

The very fact of being human panics us into the most grotesque play-acting imaginable; and we deal in absurdities to keep life from being a total waste, like one constant jacking-off party.

The strongest predictor of team success was a high level of psychological safety

Football players throw a 3 pound ball in the air, but cheerleaders throw a 100 pound girl in the air and catch her.

The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.

If you really want to be competitive in today's market you have to be in movies that make money.

For me, the walk of the character is always the first part that I must define for myself.

Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is eighty percent of being a successful hitter. The other twenty percent is just execution.

Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is 80 percent of being a successful hitter. The other 20 percent is just execution.

I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious.

There's only one way to break the color line. Be good. I mean, play good. Play so good that they can't remember what color you were before the season started.