Quotes About Performance

Michael Gambon

174) Intimidating Snape Harry was so scared of Alan Rickman because "he was so fantastic at what he did I was freaked" that he had to keep telling himself "it's only a film, it's only a film ... nothing's real".

Twelve days wil be heaps of time. You don't want to over-reherse these things, otherwise you lose that rough edge

The acting area is a sacred space... where the actor cannot die.

The single most important thing in a child's performance is the quality of the teacher. Making sure a child spends the maximum amount of time with inspirational teachers is the most important thing.

The number of shots taken by an opponent who is out of sight is equal to the square root of the sum of the number of curses heard plus the number of swishes.

We don't get reimbursed for time spent counseling our patients about the benefits of healthy eating. If doctors were instead paid for performance, there would be a financial incentive to treat the lifestyle causes of disease. Until the model of reimbursement changes, I don't expect great changes in medical care or medical education.5

asked athletes to eat about a cup and a half of blueberries every day for six weeks to see if the berries could reduce the oxidative stress caused by long-distance running.42 The blueberries succeeded,

Boys must find ways to compete and see themselves as performing well. If they do not, if society does not provide them with these opportunities, they'll compete against society itself, abusing their community and themselves.

Effort means nothing. Execution is everything.

Put a little bit more in, get so much more out".

Gasol walked away with 18 rebounds, exactly half of them offensive. That was more than the combined total of Garnett, Wallace, and Baby Davis.

Over-seriousness is a warning sign for mediocrity and bureaucratic thinking. People who are seriously committed to mastery and high performance are secure enough to lighten up.

To be in Christ is to be a living exegesis of the narrative of Christ, a new performance of the original drama of exaltation following humiliation, of humiliation as the voluntary renunciation of rights and selfish gain in order to serve and obey.

There's a quick and easy way to test whether an activity involves skill: ask whether you can lose on purpose.

What gets measured, gets managed." If we measure the wrong things, we will not achieve our goals.

The most obvious reason for giving the best flutes to the best flute players is that doing so will produce the best music, making us listeners better off. But this is not Aristotle's reason. He thinks the best flutes should go to the best flute players because that's what flutes are for—to be played well.

The descent of sport into spectacle is not unique to the age of genetic engineering. But it illustrates how performance-enhancing technologies, genetic or otherwise, can erode the part of athletic and artistic performance that celebrates natural talents and gifts.

Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best.

I want to be perceived as a guy who played his best in all facets, not just scoring. A guy who loved challenges.

The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.

Typical categories include the 6 Ms: manpower (personnel), machines, materials, methods, measurements, and Mother Nature (or environment)

The Bell Curve might have been called Why Intelligence Matters, explaining the connection of intelligence to life outcomes; this book completes the syllogism.

Three reasons: you need to know how the technique fails, you need to be able to perform it under stress, and you have to lose your fear of discomfort." Discomfort. He means my fear of pain.