Quotes About Performance

Cybernetics takes the view that the structure of the machines or of the organism is an index of the performance that may be expected from it.

Pro-rated at 500 at-bats a year that means that for two years out of the fourteen I played, I never even touched the ball.

It got very tedious saying the same jokes in the same way with the same attitude.

We're shooting 100 percent - 60 percent from the field and 40 percent from the free-throw line.

I try to make people smile and dance, not think about things or educate them.

I now think that all high performers have in common, knowingly or unknowingly, qualities and characteristics of the Super Mind. That is, they are calm under pressure and uncannily resilient to stress. They take care of their health, set high standards of innovation and creativity, and are not only intensely engaged in their actions but also capable of detaching when need be. They choose their projects carefully, keep the big picture in mind, and ignore trifling details.

With most British actors, it's amazing. I think they start with the character on the outside and work in.

I stopped thinking too much about what could happen and relied on my physical and mental strength to play the right shots at the right time.

Humanity is a comic role.

It is more satisfying to be a bad player at golf. The worse you play, the better you remember the occasional good shot.

you are not praise by what you eat but by what you do

Vazgeçiyorum, bütün insanl???n önünde e?ilerek özür diliyorum; beni yanl??l?kla ç?kard?lar sahneye.

Co?kun: Bir ?ey yapmad???m için cezaland?r?ld?m. Büyük adam rolü oynayarak zavall? milletime nutuk çekti?im için cezaland?r?ld?m. Servet: Öyle olsayd?, bu zavall? milletin ba??nda kim kal?r bugün.

The Anger Management Tour was another beautiful thing. I loved that tour.

I think it's actually a misperception that I am a comedic actress. I do more drama than comedy but very little of it has been seen. When you are in big funny movies and they do well and your little part in it kind of explodes people perceive you as a comedian.

The only certain means is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.

On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting;'Twas only that when he was off he was acting.

I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!

To live is to function. That is all there is in living.

I had this totally impossible dream of being an actress. Trust me, just because I'm lucky enough to be doing this doesn't make any of this less of a pipe dream. And nothing gets my juices flowing like a really great performance. To see someone on stage, I get really excited.

Agents and agencies can only be obliged to act in ways for which they have an adequate set of capabilities.

Our theory," explained Fried, "is that we'll see better results when people have a long stretch of uninterrupted time.

What a great discrepancy there is between men and the results they achieve! It is due to the difference in their power of calling together all the rays of their ability, and concentrating them upon one point