Quotes About Performance

You must perfect every fundamental of your business if you expect it to perform well.

A thousand-bit quantum computer would vastly outperform any conceivable DNA computer, or for that matter any conceivable nonquantum computer.

If we were building a consciousness detector, Searle would want it to ascertain that it was squirting biological neurotransmitters. American philosopher Daniel Dennett (born in 1942) would be more flexible on substrate, but might want to determine whether or not the system contained a model of itself and of its own performance. That view comes closer to my own, but at its core is still a philosophical assumption.

The comics that are just conversing with you up there and drawing on their own life, yeah, I guess so. I guess some do political humor, some do topical humor, but the ones that I like, the ones that are appealing to me, were guys who were just talking to you about their life.

I could understand how such stories of horror can spread, like a wild fire. Such was the nature of rumor. People seemed to love to be frightened especially when, in their heart of hearts, they knew that they were safe. How many truly believed in vampires, I pondered? How many truly believed that they were risking their life by sitting up in the gods to watch a stage performance?

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

Because I have been a magician for many years, people have often asked me whether I ever have sawn a woman in half. I reply, Oh, yes I've sawn over seventy women in half in my lifetime, and I'm learning the second half of the trick now.

Tenure does not equal competence. Doing something for a long time does not mean doing it well.

When onstage, I always try to take my audience through as many emotions as I possibly can. I want them to go from laughter to tears, be shocked and surprised and walk out the door with a renewed sense of themselves - and maybe a smile.

All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts. William Shakespeare, 1564—1616

I think every time I go in a game, I have added something positive. I have gotten a rebound or made a defensive play. That is what I try to focus on.

'Butch Cassidy' was the only film I ever enjoyed making.

Most actors will tell you, when they've got emotional stuff that's hard to carry around for hours and hard to try to do justice too, it just beats your butt.

My best exercise is going on stage and playing, but I stay active. I don't just sit around on my butt all day and do nothing.

Playing show after show is like my bread and butter.

The tour is like our bread and butter. You don't really get to experience the band unless you see us live.

We've always prided ourselves on putting together a great live show. That's something that means a lot to us because our bread and butter is the live tour.

You get butterflies when you see all the fans screaming.

Yeah, I obviously do get nervous before the matches. I obviously have butterflies. I obviously want to do well.

Sometimes I get butterflies before I get up on stage.

I used to get butterflies. Now we're always ready to hit the stage and rock out.

There's a button that goes On and I'm On. And when I go On, there is almost no me; there is just a character who is doing all this.

It's not that I get nervous but when it's a really hot button crowd where they are really energetic I get anxious.

I always loved the piano because it's just a bunch of buttons. I like to push buttons.