Quotes About Performance

The behavioral level in human beings is especially valuable for well-learned, routine operations. This is where the skilled performer excels.

A usable design starts with careful observations of how the tasks being supported are actually performed, followed by a design process that results in a good fit to the actual ways the tasks get performed. The technical name for this method is task analysis. The name for the entire process is human-centered design (HCD), discussed

if we incentivize conformance, people will insert contingency reserves to prevent their tasks from missing the schedule. The more granular the schedule, the larger the schedule reserves. And these reserves aggregate into even longer timelines. The more we increase planning detail and the harder we try to incentivize performance, the worse our problem becomes.

We should not prioritize on the basis of project profitability, but rather on how this profitability is affected by delay.

I have a very simple rule when it comes to management: hire the best people from your competitors, pay them more than they were earning, and give them bonuses and incentives based on their performance. That's how you build a first-class operation.

You do your job, you keep your job. Do it well, you get a better job.

You don't reward failure by promoting those responsible for it, because all you get is more failure.

I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when I saw a man playing the saxophone. I stood there for fifteen minutes, and he never opened his eyes.

I'd learned my default mode was to perform. Even in small groups I feel like I have to be "on." But when I'm alone my energy comes back. When I'm alone I don't have to perform for anybody.

It is a pretty good idea to make some noises when you are at a play.

A character is what he does.

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talking about real life. The thought of not acting pressed on me like a terror. Can we really trust people to love us just as we are? Nobody steps onto a stage and gets a standing ovation for being human. You have to sing or dance or something. I think that's the difference between being loved and making people clap, though. Love can't be earned, it can only be given. And it can only be exchanged by people who are completely true with each other.

I've found that people work harder when they are held accountable, and their confidence level rises along with that.

We have to set records, we have no choice.

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I've always liked it about the Greeks that they kept the violence off the stage.

and yet, whenever he started with the questions I froze stiff, as if I'd been pushed onstage in a play where I didn't know the lines.

At first I thought they were playing to an

loose tendons; dance world's loss; performance art's gain

I'm no porn star, but what I lack in size I make up for in speed. --- Harry McGlade

Just as a parent is pleased with the efforts of his little child to please him, though it be only by picking a daisy or walking across a room, so is our Father in heaven pleased with the poor performances of His believing children. He looks at the motive, principle, and intention of their actions, and not merely at their quantity and quality. He regards them as members of His own dear Son,

High-quality swords are expected to be able to recover, elastically, after they have been bent so that the tip touches the hilt.

I found myself forgetting about Luke, who was standing there emoting all over the place, and watching the robot to see if its performance was going properly!" Kershner says. "That happened time and again, so I would have to pull myself back and concentrate on the actor. Without him, nothing was going to happen. But it's hard to admit that my directing talent may be judged by the performance of an inanimate object.