Quotes About Performance

Where neither love nor hatred is in the game, a woman's game is mediocre.

All lovers swear more performance than they are able, and yet reserve an ability that they never perform; vowing more than the perfection of ten, and discharging less than the tenth part of one.

All lovers swear more performance than they are able

Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising

A choir of pink-cheeked boys lift their voices as a priest seems to pull the music from their throats with the urging of his hands.

Not what you do but how you do it, is the test of your capacity.

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I cringed as the band oozed into the next chord. If notes were cars, I think there was a D major under the wreckage.

It had the rhythm and suspense of a juggler adding more objects to the spinning collection already airborne. Sometimes

In a three-year period, we had 78 projects, and 77 of them were delivered on time, on budget, and in scope. Then I surveyed the customers and found out that none of them was happy!

Focusing exclusively on local measurements has a tendency to inhibit collaboration beyond the area being measured, because there is no reward for it.

When you try to measure performance, particularly the performance of knowledge workers, you're positively courting dysfunction.

Trying to force a system to work beyond its capacity invariably causes turbulence and slows things down.

He had to do them, to show he was the best.

Elizabeth was not playing for the sake of exhibiting her virtuosity: she played for joy.

I can't say no, I can't slow down, I have to keep going or they'll find out I'm a little kid in grownup's clothes, and a fraud.

They disrupted the performance

Trained baby dodo tricks!

People within a company can be divided into two groups: those who earn money and those who don't. Only those frontline people who develop, produce, and sell products are earning money for the company. The ideal company would have only one person who does not earn money—the president—leaving the rest of the employees directly involved in revenue-generating activity.

Shift your goals from the external to the internal: repeat to yourself that your objective is not to hit the target, but to deliver the best shot of which you are capable

Life is a stage: perform your masterpiece.

I've talked to some drummers who seem to have a very hard time staying in shape on the road, including some drummers touring with high-profile acts that don't have to live on fast food every night.

The paradox of public speaking is: you can't just be yourself; you need to amplify yourself.

Speaking in public is a constant process of working for the attention of your audience.