Quotes About Performance

Tell me how you measure me and I'll tell you how I will behave.

More importantly, our software worked. I don't just mean that it didn't bump, or that it performed according to the written specifications, or that it was efficient in producing reports. It really worked

productivity is the act of bringing a company closer to its goal. Every action that brings a company closer to its goal is productive. Every action that does not bring a company closer to its goal is not productive.

the man next to Rush shouted a "Bravo!" that smelled of garlic.

God isn't interested in watching you enact some performance of personality in order to comply with some crackpot notion you have about how a spiritual person looks or behaves. We all seem to get this idea that, in order to be sacred, we have to make some massive, dramatic change of character, that we have to renounce our individuality.

If you do say yes to an idea, now it's showtime.

War is a dreadful business, but it teaches everyone something; this particular war taught my Aunt Peg how to put on a show.

The only thing that matters now is what you leave 'em with. If you drop this thing in the middle of the second act, they'll forget that they ever loved you. You've gotta earn it all over again now.

the problem with stage actresses is that once they are gone, they are forgotten. If you never saw her perform onstage, then you would not be able to understand her power and appeal.

The trick of comedy," said Billy, "is not to perform it in a comic manner. Don't try to be funny, and you'll be funny.

You can always find girls who can dance like angels, and some boys, too. But to get a man who can dance like a man—that's not easily found. This kid is everything I'd hoped he would be.")

The human mind, if dutifully trained, should be able to perform anything we ask of it. It is all just a matter of working hard.

if one were efficient one wouldn't be depressed, and that if one does one's job well one becomes automatically bright and brisk.

that if one were efficient one wouldn't be depressed, and that if one does one's job well one becomes automatically bright and brisk.

When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation, ' I say, 'Your salary.'

The only unnatural sexual act is that which you cannot perform.

Nada debería tener tanto un economista como el aplauso.

The worst thing that an actor can do is go into any project with a lack of respect for the material. You can have an opinion about it, but you have to respect yourself in doing it.

The Governor of New York State does not have to be an acrobat.

The pandemic of Spanish influenza is easier to measure if it is restricted to the years of 1918 and 1919 and its farewell performance of 1920 is excluded.

northern blacks had outperformed southern whites. They also undermined the belief in the existence and significance of 'pure' races.

I wouldn't treat a romantic scene any differently than any other scene. I would really say the biggest preparation was chewing gum and breath mints! For a kissing scene, it's all about the breath mints!

design critic performs in imagined dialogue with former critics, peers, and the designers whose work she discusses, and before the imagined audience of the reading public.

As you know from school, it's when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared, even if you fail, you've done your best.