Quotes About Performance

There are similarities between business and sport, in the pressures involved and in the fitness aspect too.

Wherever one encounters members of the human race, they always show the traits of a being that is condemned to surrealistic effort. Whoever goes in search of humans will find acrobats.

It's bad poetry executed by people that can't sing. That's my definition of Rap.

Most experienced tournament players understand that you tend to win in clusters anyway.

I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal.

If this were your first annual review with our company, what would I be telling you right now? A: You'd be thanking me for a job well done and would be explaining how you look forward to continuing to see good work from me. Furthermore, I would anticipate your explaining how you really appreciated my putting in extra time on some key projects and how my creative thinking helped come up with some innovative solutions to existing problems.

Everything's an act. Everything's strategy.

Fifty percent of all medical personnel graduate in the bottom half of their class.

Every concert pianist knows that the surest way to ruin a performance is to be aware of what the fingers are doing. Every dancer and acrobat knows enough to let the mind go, let the body run itself. Every driver of a manual vehicle arrives at destinations with no recollection of the stops and turns and roads traveled in getting there. You are all sleepwalkers, whether climbing creative peaks or slogging through some mundane routine for the thousandth time. You are all sleepwalkers.

And frankly, if IT isn't helping you operate how you want—and need—to operate, you are wasting money. There is no chance that your IT investments will lead to strategic benefits.

I was so afraid to even read a paper in front of my classmates. It is very funny because at that point my teachers would never have believed that I could speak in front of an audience of over 2 000 people.

You hear about how many fourth quarter comebacks that a guy has and I think it means a guy screwed up in the first three quarters

I don't want to end up being a circus act, doing my most famous tricks when I'm 70.

And the sad part is that you actually believe in The Undertaker. You actually believe that he has all these magic powers which is really alll just smoke and mirrors.

Those are the pictures you want from pre-season, so although we beat a Premiership side, I can take those away with me.

If you score first, you have a 75 per cent chance of not losing the game. It doesn't take a brain surgeon to work out that you have to get off to a good start and score.

In the Air Tonight" is 99.9 percent sung spontaneously, the words dreamt up from out of nowhere

Return on investment capital (ROIC) is the rate of return a business makes on the cash it invests in itself every year.

If you were to ask me which of the Big Five is the most important number, I'd tell you to go to ROIC first. If a business doesn't have a healthy ROIC—above 10 percent per year on average for the last ten years—move on to another business.

It's impossible to say that live art enjoys any single status in the information age--there are versions of live art that are still primarily art-world phenomena, others that appeal to much broader audiences. The Burning Man festival is a case in point--an event featuring performance that is itself a performance, which partakes simultaneously of frontier mythology, a counter-cultural impulse, and popular cultural visibility.

The dilemma of Brechtian performance is that, for all of Brecht's emphasis on rationality and the undermining of theatrical illusion, the actor must convincingly portray something that she is not.

on average, teams were 23% more accurate than individuals.

Amount of luck in tournament determines amount of regression to the mean from one year to the next.

slow regression is more often seen in activities dominated by skill, while faster regression is more associated with chance.