Quotes About Performance

And you know, whether it's drama or comedy, the best work is based on truth. It's just that, with comedy, the circumstances are just crazy-heightened, and you have these crazy things thrown at you. But you still have to do it truthfully, because that's where the humor comes from. So it's not that difficult to cross over.

It's both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy.

best" means showing up and doing your best without being attached to the outcome.

Today, did I do my best and forget the rest?

It's not how much time we invest into our work that determines our productivity but rather the value we produce during the hours we work.

The first key shift is to stop evaluating performance by the number of hours employees put in and instead measure it by the value they produce. That means not just permitting intermittent renewal but actively encouraging it as a key to sustainable high performance. It also means treating employees like adults by giving them freedom to decide how best to get their work done and holding them accountable for their results, not the hours they work.

It's that human beings operate most productively in the same one-dimensional way computers do: continuously, at high speeds, for long periods of time, running multiple programs at the same time.

In a significant number of cases, people actually get worse at their jobs over time. "More

The vast majority of organizations fail to make the connection between the degree to which they meet their employees' needs and how effectively those employees perform.

Do you think your people perform better when they're healthier and happier?" Almost invariably, the answer is "Yes." Then we ask one more question: "Does your organization regularly invest in people's health and happiness?" The answer is nearly always "No.

Get in the race car do what I do then go home. We don't have freedom to do anything anymore.

And with every exercise, he reminds us of the one and only rule. Acting isn't pretending. The clue is in the word. Acting is doing. Being. Becoming.

The Machine will reinvent the fundamental architecture of computers to enable a quantum leap in performance and efficiency, while lowering costs over the long term and improving security.

When I play live, it's a conversation that we're all having with the song, and the audience... their response and relationship with the songs is as valid as my relationship with the songs.

A guitarist or a drummer can get a cold and still play; I get a cold and sound like a wet mitten trying to sing you a love song. Charming.

A time came later in my youth when I had to find the bridge between the aspects of playing music that constituted communication with myself, and performance. That's when I got a repertoire together, things that people would like. This is why I've done covers over the years.

Festivals or radio shows can be the heavyweight championships of arrogantly detached clusterfucks.

I've always gotten a positive reaction to doing African-American characters.

I'm learning as much martial arts as I possibly can. My show is packed with action. Enough to get a rise.

Stand-up don't get no respect - it's the hardest thing to do in show business. You don't have no band and there's no music.

I'm a freak, everything has to be totally flat when I play. Ed Will, my jazz teacher, set up everything completely flat, and then you'd tilt your snare drum away from you, so I do that too. So my snare tilts away from me.

EQ is so critical to success that it accounts for 58 percent of performance in all types of jobs. It's the single biggest predictor of performance in the workplace and the strongest driver of leadership and personal excellence.

people with the highest levels of intelligence (IQ) outperform those with average IQs just 20% of the time, while people with average IQs outperform those with high IQs 70% of the time.

The wonderful thing about Food for Thought is that it lets you keep your hand in theater and be in front of a live audience without a commitment of six months, or even three months.