Quotes About Performance

It's definitely much harder to run a hedge fund today than it used to be, in my opinion. That's because there are more hedge funds to compete with.

Any crowd that gets on your back makes it difficult, but you are going to get that if things aren't going well. The fans have got their right to give their opinion.

My opinion is I can get open against anybody.

The crowd are entitled to their opinion, and as players, we have to go out there and play well.

A team championship doesn't happen because three people score 10s, it happens because all the guys score well. In my opinion, everyone deserved 10s, we're all 10s on this team.

As a player, you can't express ideas and opinions as easily as when you're doing a ballgame.

The world is a stage, but the play is badly written.

When asked what he thought of sports, Oscar Wilde replied, I approve of any activity that requires the wearing of special clothing.

The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster.

Perhaps one never seems so much at one's ease as when one has to play a part.

A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on.

In fact, he was dressed for the character of 'Jonas the Graveless, or the Corpse-Snatcher of Chertsey Barn,' one of his most remarkable impersonations

It was only in the theatre that I lived.

Lots of people act well, but very few people talk well, which shows that talking is much the more difficult thing of the two, and much the finer thing also.

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

It is not good for one's morals to see bad acting.

Come sono fortunati gli attori! Loro possono scegliere se recitare in una tragedia o in una commedia, se soffrire o gioire, ridere o piangere. Ma nella vita reale è diverso. Uomini e donne sono costretti per lo più a interpretare personaggi che non sono tagliati per loro. Ai nostri Guildenstern tocca il ruolo di Amleto, e i nostri Amleti devono fare i buffoni come il principe Hal. Il mondo è un palcoscenico, ma le parti sono mal distribuite.

In our play we reveal what kind of people we are

The most effective and efficient means of maintaining high standards of performance on a team is peer pressure. More than any policy or system, there is nothing like the fear of letting down respected teammates to motivate people to improve their performance.

As a dancer, I out-Fred the nimblest Astaire.

I'm much too much the popular pet ever since I sang 'Every Nice Girl Loves A Sailor' at the village concert last year. I had them rolling in the aisles. Three encores, and so many bows that I got a crick in the back. Spare me the tale of your excesses, I said distantly. I wore a sailor suit. Please, I said, revolted.

Gussie opened his vaudeville career

You could tell it was classical, because the banjo players were leaning back and chewing gum; and in New York restaurants only death or a classical speciality can stop banjoists.

What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing.