Quotes About Performance

It's difficult for most people to imagine the creative process in tennis. Seemingly it's just an athletic matter of hitting the ball consistently well within the boundaries of the court. That analysis is just as specious as thinking that the difficulty in portraying King Lear on stage is learning all the lines.

In [porn] films, the actress has male-type sexuality. To put it bluntly, she behaves exactly like a gay man in a back room. She is shown in the film as always wanting sex, with anyone, in every hole. And she comes every time. As a man in a woman's body would.

Who is in fact the victim [of porn]? The actresses, who surrender their dignity the moment we see them giving a blow job? Or the male viewers, weak and unable to overcome their wish to watch sex, or to understand that what they are watching is merely a performance?

No man to be judged by mere nature of his duties, but all should be judged by the manner and the spirit in which they perform them.

Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.

Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. That's why I like playing Shakespeare better than anything else.

One is just an interpreter of what the playwright thinks, and therefore the greater the playwright, the more satisfying it is to act in the plays.

People think that if you look fairly reasonable, you can't possibly act, and as I only care about acting, I think beauty can be a great handicap.

The strength of the playing ability is much more important. Only if the strength of the opponent's playing ability is comparable, does the game develop.

God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.

Eu1 - sinele inventat, umplut cu concepte si asteptari despre bine si rau, despre ce trebuie facut, despre ce e de dorit si ce nu. Eu2 - cel care joaca

even the finest of plans can fail when they're poorly instantiated.

even magnificent frameworks can't save the day if those frameworks have been inadequately implemented.

How teachers are evaluated will most certainly alter how teachers teach.

Maya was wearing a big fluffy outfit, so I knew we weren't going to the park to play afterward, but that was okay because everyone seemed so glad at how well I'd done the trick. Mama even cried, she was so happy.

Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she'll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life.

Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.

A bad system will beat a good person every time.

Short-term profits are not reliable indicator of performance of management. Anybody can pay dividends by deferring maintenance, cutting out research, or acquiring another company.

Christine, what is your job? Is it: To make 25 calls per hours? Or To give callers courteous satisfaction, no brushoff. It can not be both.

A new president came, talked with the head of sales, design, manufacturing, consumer research, and so forth. Everybody was doing a superb job, and had been doing so for years. Nobody had any problems. Yet somehow or other the company was going down the tube. Why? The answer was simple. Each staff area was sub-optimizing its own work, but not working as a team for the company.

On idea of merit rating) Everyone propels himself forward or tries to, for his own good, on his own life preserver. The organization is the loser. Merit rating rewards people that do well in the system. It does not reward attempts to improve the system. Don't rock the boat.

The problem lies in the difficulty to define a meaningful measure of performance.

No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.