Quotes About Performance

I heard some interesting things about your performance up here." "I hear interesting things about your 'performance' all the time Doug, but you don't hear me making jokes about it.

This isn't a game. We don't want mediocre employees who can keep the status quo. We want souls. We want to win. And you've spent most of your time here being mediocre.

It's a good thing I work well under pressure.

Adrian, we're focusing on Jil here. This isn't about your personal entertainment." "Not true," he said, green eyes sparkling. "Everything's about my personal entertainment. The world is my stage. Keep it up—you're becoming a star performer in the show.

A FAMOUS SWORD SWALLOWER FROM AFGHANISTAN WHO IS NOW TEACHING ME TO EAT MY WORDS (WHAT YOU DO IS YOU TAKE THE S OFF THE BEGINNING OF THE SWORD AND PUT IT ON THE END BEFORE YOU SWALLOW IT).

They repeated the trick on Love, Death and the Lady (1970).

Lyndon) Johnson created his own theater.

Yes, yes, I know they make better pilots than men do; their reactions are faster, and they can tolerate more gee. They can get in faster, get out faster, and thereby improve everybody's chances, yours as well as theirs. But that still doesn't make it fun to be slammed against your spine at ten times your proper weight. But

A thing can be fine on paper but utterly crummy in the field.

noise is always a byproduct of inefficiency. A correctly designed engine is as silent as the grave.

We find you've turned it into a circus. Well, if you're going to have a circus, you've got to have elephants.

každá skupina je slabÅ¡í než jednotlivec, pokud nemá skvÄ›le natrénovanou spolupráci.

his slot was given by his lifemate Perry Jarnell, who took six minutes. At that point his audio and video both cut out. After that, even the most pompous speakers quickly figured out that if they hadn't gotten it said within five minutes, Merril wasn't going to let them keep trying.

Of course there are robots among us. There are also Magicians among us. I think we take turns playing each role, as a matter of fact. The Magician defines a reality-mesh and the robot lives in it. Grok?

Shame is probably our most hidden and misunderstood emotion. It's also the one most likely to motivate men to stay away from the help they need—and need to admit they need—which can range from psychotherapy to addiction programs. Performance anxiety is driven by shame; so is the drive to overachieve; so is the pressure to man up. Shame is behind the scenes much more often than you might think.

She wore a lot of makeup, badly applied. There was lipstick on her teeth. If she'd been a dancer, it must have been in Fantasia.

He was probably stud duck at the Rotary Club cookouts. I could have taken him while whistling the Michigan fight song and balancing a seal on my nose.

How to Manage Performance

Comedy and horror are opposite sides of the same coin.

El mundo entero es un escenario y cada hombre, en el momento adecuado, representa muchos papeles.

No higher praise can be awarded a fighter pilot than to say he is "shit hot." (The phonetic version used in polite company is "Sierra Hotel.")

poets are like baseball pitchers. both have their moments. the intervals are the tough things.

The play seems out for an almost infinite run. Don't mind a little thing like the actors fighting. The only thing I worry about is the sun. Well be all right if nothing goes wrong with the lighting.

In many ways fast cruise is tougher than being out to sea. When you're out, you just do your job, and take in stride what comes along. During fast cruise you deliberately push everything to the limit. If it's going to break, better alongside the pier than 2,000 miles away from nowhere, or on the bottom in the Soviets' back yard.