Quotes About Performance

Of course the first version of an all-electric sports car is going to be expensive.

Porsche is a driver's car - a performance car. That was funny - here's this awesome car, but it's got no cup holders.

You can't be pregnant in leotards, and this is the last chance for us to get our bodies into the shape of concert dancers and capture it with the magic of film.

I want TNA to grow as a company, it's better for me as a performer and me as a businessman. But how can they grow if every chance they get they are constantly talking about up north and the WWE?

When you play a character, you bring yourself into the character. You get a chance to shine and show your translation for the character and her state of mind.

I hope I will always have the chance to play the violin.

Everyone is the same for the first two minutes, everyone has a chance to win, but after that you start to seperate physically and mentally.

With stand-up you've just got that one chance. Audiences can be quite fickle.

Play the shot you've got the best chance of playing well.

Nutrition can make or break you on race day. It's not something you leave to chance. If you don't plan for it you're almost guaranteed to bonk.

There's no second chance on stage, and I was trained to make the most of my first chance.

Games give you a chance to excel.

It so cliché to say some guys and girls need to step up, but there can be bigger stars and bigger names when people get their chance.

Whatever character you play, it gives you the chance to expose another side of yourself that maybe you've never felt comfortable with, or never knew about

Some Brazilian bloke called Ayrton Senna da Silva seemed to be doing pretty well driving for Van Diemen. So thinking that this car must be great

The outside world exists like an actor on a stage: it's there but it's pretending to be something else.

the drama upon the stage is sometimes no more than an intensification of the rituals within our own hearts.

He held back nothing of himself in his effort to please his audience

A person can perform only from strength. One cannot build performance on weakness, let alone on something one cannot do at all.

A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.

We all have a vast number of areas in which we have no talent or skill and little chance of becoming even mediocre. In those areas a knowledge workers should not take on work, jobs and assignments. It takes far more energy to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence.

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.

An employer has no business with a man's personality. Employment is a specific contract calling for a specific performance, and nothing else. Any attempt by an employer to go beyond this is usurpation. It is an immoral as well as illegal intrusion of privacy.

Management is about human beings. Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.