Quotes About Performance

When I discipline, I am helping my people, teaching them and coaching them, to be the best they can be. When I see a gap between how they are performing and how they should be performing, I look at it as an opportunity to help them raise their game. It's another opportunity to serve them.

What we think or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do. —John Ruskin

Don't just practice it but actually follow through and go out and do it before preaching it to the world!

To me playing a violin requires passion, and passion requires a good back.

PBR Bulls are the talent, the cowboys are the props and both are tasked with putting on a great show for the audience

The previous day, December 6, Sprague had upbraided his crew for their sloppy performance during an intensive series of drills. He broke with his nature and let them have it. Gathering his officers in the Tangier's wardroom, Sprague said, "We're not prepared. We can't trust the Japanese. How do you know the Japanese won't attack tomorrow?" The next morning the Combined Fleet struck.

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You know, technology CEOs like to think of themselves as rock 'n roll stars.

Being a good actor isn't easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I'm done.

To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty; to interpret it his problem; and to express it his dedication.

When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that.

Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have.

When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that. So the director's task is just that – to direct, to point the way. Then the actor takes over. And he must be allowed the space, the freedom to express himself in the role. Without that space, an actor is no more than an unthinking robot with a chest-full of push-buttons.

I can't let in the light.It will destroy my performance like light destroys film

She was the Judy Garland of American poetry.

My favorite type of music to sing and to listen to, you know, rock. It's not always metal, but you know, half the time it is. Metal's cool, you know? Not everybody on 'American Idol' listens to metal.

Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy.

Bowie himself said, "Even though I was very shy, I found I could get onstage if I had a new identity."2 After reviewing his troubled early years, British psychologist Oliver James wrote, "What seems to have been the trigger for his shift from distressed and tortured to emotionally healthy, was his adoption of personas in his musical career."3

If I'm working on a film, I'll do sit-ups for before I shoot. Like, 100 in the morning or something.

Making an espresso is a performance that lasts ninety seconds and then you're done. You go on to the next performance. You may get applause or you may get boos, and then you move on.

And the careful manipulation of the occluding edges of clothing with progressive revealing of skin is a form of the theatrical art called stripping.

I'm a Fool" may not be a great song, but Sinatra's shattering performance of it transcends the material. His emotion is so naked that we're at once embarrassed and compelled: we literally feel for him.

Create the highest possible operating standards, develop the character of your players, develop the culture of your team and, as the title of Walsh's book proclaims, The Score Takes Care of Itself.

Successful leaders balance pride with humility: absolute pride in performance; total humility before the magnitude of the task.