Quotes About Performance

It's not exactly surprising that staying sane is useful when trying to hit performance markers.

As the Big Shift takes hold, companies are no longer places that exist to drive down costs by getting increasingly bigger. They're places that support and organize talented individuals to get better faster by working with others. The rationale of the firm shifts from scalable efficiency to scalable learning—the ability to improve performance more rapidly and learn faster by effectively integrating more and more participants distributed across traditional institutional boundaries.

the success of creation spaces can be traced back to careful design at the outset by a small group of people who were very thoughtful about the conditions required to foster or "scaffold" scalable collaboration, learning, and performance improvement.

Rather than molding individuals to fit the needs of the institution, institutions will be shaped to provide platforms to help individuals achieve their full potential by connecting with others and better addressing challenging performance needs.

Act out being alive, like a play. And after a while, a long while, it will be true.

And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.

For every man in the world functions to the best of his ability, and no one does less than his best, no matter what he may think about it.

Go through the motions, Adam." "What motions?" "Act out being alive, like a play. And after a while, a long while, it will be true.

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

Why, a trick horse is kind of like an actor—no dignity, no character of his own.

Do you take pride in your hurt?" Samuel asked. "Does it make you seem large and tragic?" "I don't know." "Well, think about it. Maybe you're playing a part on a great stage with only yourself as audience.

And Granma looked straight ahead, proudly, for she was on show now.

Unless a writer's capable of solitude, he should leave books alone and go into the theater.

Only mediocrity escapes criticism.

a beard is the one thing a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.

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finally, in our time a beard is the one thing a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.

Well, think about it. Maybe you're playing a part on a great stage with only yourself as audience.

She didn't understand stags or what satisfaction the men got out of them, but there they were, and she made fifty dollars for taking off her clothes and that was better than having them torn off in an office.

Die christliche Sitte, träge aufrecht dazusitzen wie bei einer Unterhaltungsveranstaltung, deutet darauf hin, dass Gott als Unterhaltungskünstler gilt, der von der Bühne entfernt und durch eine andere Nummer ersetzt werden kann, wenn er nicht mehr unterhält.

It's five-sixths muscle memory, as you know. When muscle memory takes over, the heart can start to sing its song. Until then, you're stymied. You're just going through the motions.

I wish to be moved. I cannot feel in life. I must have others do it for me in theater.

Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.

It isn't about what you do, but how you do it