Quotes About Performance

As a rule of thumb, performance aberration in a basic skill is a good way to evaluate whether it's natural to a species. When you spot a giant ability gap between ages and genders, you know you're looking at nurture, not nature. Male

As a rule of thumb, performance aberration in a basic skill is a good way to evaluate whether it's natural to a species. When you spot a giant ability gap between ages and genders, you know you're looking at nurture, not nature.

Nem?žeš b?hat do kopce a mít špatnou biomechaniku," vysv?tlil mi. "Prost? to nefunguje. Když se pokusíš s nap?ímenou nohou p?istát na patu, p?epadneš dozadu.

The reason some people use their genetic gift for running and others don't is because the brain is a bargain shopper.

V?l k?da Ledvilas le?enda ir su?u bar?bas magn?ts M?ršals Alriks, kurš uzlaboja savu skriešanas ?trumu, likdams ?irur?iski no?emt sev k?ju pirkstu nagus. " Tie t?pat man krita nost, " paskaidroja M?ršals.

Fat as fuel is an all-but-forgotten secret of endurance athletes, but when it's revived, the results are astonishing.

Daniels began filming elite athletes, and he noticed something fascinating: they all tended to run at about 180 steps per minute—ninety per leg—whether going fast or slow. To accelerate, they just lengthened their stride without changing that 180-beat rhythm. Daniels then turned his attention toward new runners, and found they typically had a much slower cadence, more like 160. The mistake these beginners were making, Daniels realized, was confusing quick with hard.

need two hundred calories an hour. The trick is learning how to take in a little at a time, so you've got a steady drip of fuel without overwhelming your stomach. This'll be good practice.

Working on such a big film was amazing. I learned a lot. There weren't too many stunts, just some doubling.

Working with Julie Andrews is like getting hit over the head with a valentine.

Most of my life I have played a lot of famous people but most of them were dead so you have a poetic license.

The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it do something extraordinary. Now you're looking for the secret... but you wont find it, because of course you're not really looking. You don't really want to know. You want to be fooled.

Magicians protect their secrets not because the secrets are large and important, but because they are so small and trivial. The wonderful effects created on stage are often the result of a secret so absurd that the magician would be embarrassed to admit that that was how it was done.

Shortly after that, a young band named Gun, currently enjoying a top forty disco hit, was announced as the Stones' London warm-up.

The reverence accorded to the composer's score suggests that it is a sacred object, which is not to be tampered with, whose authority over the actions of all the musicians playing here tonight is absolute, which commands absolute stillness and silence from those devotees who have assembled to hear it performed.

The corps of Great Composers who provided the works that are played here are all dead; living musicians may have their works played here from time to time, as a kind of courtesy, but it is the dead who command the loyalty of audiences, and it is their works that are played here over and over again with loving note-for-note accuracy.

Obviously an actor draws on his own experience.

I have been in movies that I thought I wasn't very good in.

Emotional power is maybe the most valuable thing that an actor can have.

I've made movies that we're very successful that we're a complete surprise, and I've made movies that I thought we're going to be very successful that, you know.

I think if you do something effectively whether you're the lover or the comic or the action guy or the villain like I play movies are very expensive to make. Chances are you'll get asked to play that part again.

I've made movies that I thought were good. I've made movies that I thought were okay, but then I was very good. And sometimes you're in a movie and you think, I wish more people saw that - because you're good. And it just works out that the movie gets lost. But that's show business.

What turns me on is to walk into a sold-out venue. The audiences are so much the same as they were in the '60s. It's just an amazing thing. I can't explain it, but I hope it never stops.

At root, the business of baseball was no better or different from the movies or from church: put on a show, promise people something transcendent, and then bleed the suckers dry.