Quotes About Performance

The cat is above all things, a dramatist.

I can never tell when something is funny. I just have to do it onstage and find out.

It's not a contest. At least, it's not a good contest.

If I roll my eyes and mutter, if I clutch at my heart and scream in horror like a third-rate actress chewing up a mad scene, I do it in private and nobody sees but the bathroom mirror.

An acting teacher friend of mine readies her students for auditions by telling them to imagine placing all the techniques and tools they've acquired into a barrel, and put it on like rodeo clowns do. Not to be glanced at or checked on anxiously, but to be with you and at the ready when the audition demands.

Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.

An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house.

Who would carry the bell canto - Of course Montserrat Caballe

I help design my own tennis clothes.

When you look good, you feel good. Confidence with what you're wearing is very important. If you feel good, you will always perform your best without worrying about anything.

As always, aesthetics and ethics dance a tango in dramas.

Think of yourself as an athlete. I guarantee you it will change the way you walk, the way you work, and the decisions you make about leadership, teamwork, and success.

Credibility, however, comes from one place only: delivering results that your enterprise leadership cares about.

The finest actor is he who play the comedy of life perfectly, as i aspire to do. To walk well, talk well, weep well, laugh well and die well, it is all pure acting, because in every man there is the dumb dreadful immortal spirit who is real- who cannot act, who-is and who steadily maintains an infinite though speechless protest against the body's lies

What holds us back from consistently performing at the levels we're capable of? To find the answer, we have to look inside. No matter what we're trying to figure out, the biggest barriers are often in our own minds:

We all use our imagination every day. However, most of us are unaware that what we envision affects every cell of our bodies and every aspect of our performance.

If you are inefficient, you have a right to be afraid of the consequences.

We all choke and the man who says he doesn't choke is lying like hell.

Never ask a trader if he is profitable: you can easily see it in his gesture and gait.

A good technician gets it right maybe 60% of the time. And a great technician, maybe 61% of the time.

In real-world Finance, they don't pay for elegance. They pay for power - predictive power.

Nobody beats the market, they say. Except for those of those of us who do.

Now, a 45-degree angle is not something we deal with in finance. It's something you see in a high school geometry class. Performance like that has never been recorded in human history.

A muscle is like a car. If you want it to run well early in the morning, you have to warm it up.