Quotes About Performance

What About Object Pooling? In early versions of Java (around the 1.2 time frame), the idea that long-lived objects were good gained currency. I specifically remember being told that "creating an object is the second most expensive thing you can do in Java" (the first being creation of a new thread). The answer, supposedly, was to avoid creating objects whenever possible. Instead, you were supposed to keep objects around and reuse them.

By the time we were done I was exhausted. I don't know how movie stars do the same scene over and over like that. It takes a lot out of you.

Do you know what it's like to have everyone expect you to be the best at something?

But if I can be convinced and then through the work that we do together, the orchestra can really be convinced of the big sweep of that communication that the piece suggests, then the audience will get it and it will be a good experience for all of us.

Music is a performance and needs the audience.

The leader's checklist for General Electric, for instance, according to those highly familiar with the company, includes teaching others how to lead their divisions, making tough—often wrenching—personnel decisions around performance, and continually innovating. A checklist for Google, by contrast, would place greater emphasis on the individual pursuit of creative sparks, keeping teams small, and guiding others in an even-keeled manner.

the way as the performances enhance and even change the original idea. This is not "improvisation," this is like jazz: composition-in-the-moment.

Trump liked to portray his business as an empire, it was actually a discrete holding company and boutique enterprise, catering more to his peculiarities as proprietor and brand representative than to any bottom line or other performance measures.

Trump lived, like Hulk Hogan, as a real-life fictional character.

McConnell's contempt for Trump was boundless. He was not just the stupidest president McConnell had ever dealt with, he was the stupidest person McConnell had ever met in politics—and that was saying something. He and his wife, Elaine Chao, the secretary of transportation, regularly mocked and mimicked Trump, a set piece they would perform for friends.

Acting, in his view, was the greater and more important legal skill.

The great thing about university is that they incline you to get up and do it, from the Classics to modern plays, to the humor that Monty Pythons made popular.

Your organization is perfectly designed to produce the results it's producing.

The Fire-Eaters were a special elite-level team that played after the regular season ended. They had top-notch training and the off-season games added a lot to a player's performance when the regular season rolled around. Problem? You can't join the Fire-Eaters. They have to pick you.

Scrimmage is one of the most intense parts of a practice. Its a chance for the coach to really analyze how skilled a played. For a first practice with a new coach, you want to show off a bit, impress him. There was no way I was going to impress anybody, not after the gruelling workout I'd just been through. I could hardly believe that I'd only been on the ice for 45 minutes with a half-hour still to go. It felt like I'd been doing hard labor for hours.

When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. James Dean

I do find comedy difficult. I don't know why. Maybe I think about it too much. There's a tremendous amount of pressure to be funny.

Writing and singing does give me some kind of release from the demons of my past, it is a therapy of sorts, but to be honest, my marriage played a more important role in the acceptance of myself than performance has ever done.

So how did you end up making a fool of yourself in front of twenty thousand people? I had a bigger hole to fill. What do you mean? A rock star is someone with a hole in his heart almost the size of his ego.

No matter what - rehearsed, under-rehearsed, over-rehearsed, doubts about rehearsing - the first gig is always the first gig, and you put on your little praying hat, batten down the hatch, and do what you do.

The only performance that makes it, that makes it all the way is the one that achieves madness.

When I drank, I had a very different attitude towards my playing. It was sloppier but I kind of liked it that way. It was like the alcohol was telling my mind what to do.

I'm set to have my best year ever: I'm hiring some acts and there will be a show in the morning, in the afternoon and in the evening. I'm going to use my theater to its fullest potential.

When a killer tries to change something on a crime scene deliberately to throw the detectives off track, it is called staging. This killer was so good at staging that he should have been awarded an Oscar for his performance.