Quotes About Performance

Musicians speak of bliss, but that's just to throw the uninitiated off the scent. There is no bliss; there is only control.

The inevitable result of any search for authenticity is that you always end up with something completely modern in intent, since the purpose of the performance lies in the present, not the past.

C. P. Snow, who was also present, remembers the performance as "one of the shortest accounts ever made about a major discovery." When tall and birdlike Chadwick finished speaking he looked over the assembly and announced abruptly, "Now I want to be chloroformed and put to bed for a fortnight.

In solitude, at last, we're able to let God define us the way we are always supposed to be defined—by relationship: the I-thou relationship, in relation to a Presence that demands nothing of us but presence itself. Not performance but presence

Before Jesus, it was all about earning and meriting and performing, and Paul knew that would eat us all alive—as it has.

The biblical revelation is about awakening, not accomplishing. It is about realization and not performance principles.

It is religion's job to teach us and guide us on this discovery of our True Self, but it usually makes the mistake of turning this into a worthiness contest of some sort, a private performance, or some kind of religious achievement on our part, through our belonging to the right group, practicing the right rituals, or believing the right things.

he'd have to improve significantly to achieve mediocrity.

Issac Stern rule: the better your technique, the more impossible your standards.

High performers pick the shortest path to the right evidence to make decisions that matter.

There are no solo high performers. The best support teams are tight open and honest they have learned that agreement is not a priority but understanding the truth is.

High performers not only practice deliberately, they think deliberately.

Self-aware learners create exceptional performances.

When the performance system is made clear, decision-making becomes more accurate.

Conviction is knowing what to add and what to remove for a performance system we fully understand.

The best performers know themselves better than the competition.

Energy, not time, is the main currency in high performance.

Well," Parker managed to croak. "Better light up your lantern, Miss Ashley. It's showtime." Ashley stared. Her eyes went saucer-wide, and she clutched her stomach. "I don't think I can go out there, y'all. There's too many people!" As the others stared back at her, Etienne made a strangling motion with his hands. "Shall I do the honors? Or does everybody want a turn?" He and Parker promptly escorted Ashley out the door.

I gotta say—Apollo broke the silence—these kids did okay. He cleared his throat and began to recite: Heroes win laurels — Um, yes, first class, Hermes interrupted, like he was anxious to avoid Apollo's poetry.

Everyone hates clowns, Otis said. Even other clowns hate clowns.

Maybe if he did really well they'd give him some mouldy apples.

He looked like a hallucinating ballerina in boxer shorts

strangers? Millie's swan song on the stage, the last

The members of the circle...[were] performing a peculiar caper based on Mrs. Shawcross's fancy of what a Saxon dance might have seemed like. (Did Saxons dance? Pamela asked. You never think of them dancing.)