Quotes About Performance

If you're keeping score, win.

Any coach needs talent. You start with talent. Without talent, we're all in the soup.

If you're keeping score, win.

Baseball is only dull to dull minds

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No matter what you're going through, as long as you have some specific emotion, whether it's positive or negative, it is all stuff that you can use on stage.

Every hitter likes fastballs, just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by the gallon. That's what it feels like when Nolan Ryan's thrown balls by you.

affirmation and recognition. Sometimes people working with the Organizers will end up feeling unheard, used, and treated as things instead of being valued as persons. This may breed in them a sense of discouragement and depression (repressed anger) which affects their own performance. The Organizer may misread

So far, I have been a spectator in this theatre which is the world, but I am now about to mount the stage, and I come forward masked.

Friends, snow is awaiting snow, for a task to perform, simple and pure, at the boundary of earth and air.

At this point we've answered about every question you could possibly imagine about Deep Space Nine, so we do this thing called Theatrical Jazz, where we do a show of bits and pieces of things from plays and literature, poetry... stuff that we like. It's fun.

I have had a very difficult time with stage fright it undermines your well-being and peace of mind, and it can also threaten your livelihood.

I think opera has gained a kind of glamorous appeal. It's a live performance that aligns all of the arts, and when it is represented in the media, in film in particular, it is presented as something that is really a special event, whether it's a great date or something that's just hugely romantic.

Americans who want to perform in Europe face a cultural and vocal uphill battle. We're considered good students, very professional and often technically sound; but though there are droves of us to choose from, a European singer is almost always going to be the first choice of a European company—and often, of an American company as well.

He also gave me some advice that I follow to this day: "Sing in the mirror. If it looks funny, it's wrong.

pulled out my Valery Gergiev trump card and said I would have to call him about getting another hotel. There are many ways in which a soprano relies upon the guidance of a conductor, and not all of them are confined to the stage. As a result of dropping the most powerful name in Russian music today, I got a window and a view.

The good thing about being a circus clown must be that you never have to worry about how your hair looks.

I've finally got a car that turns heads. Mostly because of the knocking, rattling, and backfiring.

One reason I like to work for him is that he never rides me for not acting the way he would act. He knows what I can do and that's all he ever expects; but he sure expects that.

Some spit fire out of their mouths and others juggled balls or pins, their faces painted to look like clowns. Juana wondered if they did that to hide their real faces and not feel ashamed.

The acting CEO cannot be blamed or credited for the company's performance, and that makes the system independent of the CEO. Blame or credit falls on each manager and employee. The CEO should be the quarterback, not God. In a sense, it makes us like Switzerland, where many citizens have a hard time remembering their President's name. Solidarity comes as a consequence of collective action, and not from one personality.

At Semco, you are what you do, not what or whom you control.

Here's a counterintuitive idea for you: For a company to excel, employees must be reassured that self-interest, not the company's, is their foremost priority. We believe an employee who puts himself first will be motivated to perform.

The lesson we learn from Tables 2-2 and 2-3 is that higher volatility of returns leads to lower compounded returns and vice versa. Accordingly, any strategy that lowers the return volatility of the portfolio without lowering the simple average return will increase the compounded return.