Quotes About Performance

I am an excellent driver. In my mind. When nobody's watching. I could drive circles around you. And even East Los Viva. However, there is the small issue that in the human realm, when I am driving an actual vehicle, which is rare, and there is someone in the passenger seat, which is even rarer - I have a tendency to get nervous. And a bit neurotic. Okay, fine, let's just face it. I am a terrible driver.

In human resource management, an employee who brings in one point three times what he costs is worth his money. In other words an actual yield of thirty percent!

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

I don't know people who don't say, boy the government is working better now.

New York State is upside down and backwards high taxes and low performance. The New York State government was at one time a national model. Now, unfortunately, it's a national disgrace. Sometimes, the corruption in Albany could even make Boss Tweed blush.

Tools amplify your talent. The better your tools, and the better you know how to use them, the more productive you can be.

I never do a whole new set of new material. I do one new joke at a time, and I wedge it in between two good jokes. Or if it's a long story, I don't do it in L.A. or New York; I do it in Kansas and Omaha, all these places I'm going this weekend.

I've really just had to learn and adapt more than ever before, because there's so much to do in F1. There's so much to be on top of as a driver. It really requires perfection just to walk out of a weekend with a decent result.

To be in the All-Star Weekend is something that's special.

If there's competition in training, then the training is intense, and then you have the pressure of a weekend that if you don't put in good performances, then your place is maybe up for grabs.

You don't really get it from NASCAR that they want you to be the bad guy or the good guy. They'll kind of joke around with you and be like, 'Hey, that was really good this past weekend. You did a great job for us. Ratings were up.'

I absolutely love watching 'Strictly' every weekend and I can't believe that I'm getting the chance to be on this series.

I'm in a rich vein of form. Everything I do seems to come off. I'm playing every weekend; it's a dream come true for me.

Coming from a dance background, I was in competitions every single weekend, so I've been put on the spot since I was eight years old. When I first got into singing and went on tour, it kind of just felt like home, because I'd been there so many times.

Interacting with Karan Johar was huge and my first Weekend Ka Vaar really went bad.

During the week, I'm a normal kid, and then on the weekends, I go out and perform to thousands of people.

I started off as a juggler. I used to do a half-hour show on the weekends to make money as a kid. Then I went to Cleveland, Ohio in 1983 to the international jugglers competition junior division and came second. So that was my first job, being a juggler.

By the time I was 17, I was in a band, writing songs and playing solo piano at weekends, in pubs or at weddings.

The first play I was ever in was 'Cinderella,' a children's production in Los Angeles when I was only 8. It was strictly a children's show which played weekends for about a year and which included such songs as 'Long Ago and Far Away' and 'True Love.'

Executives will talk about the importance of passion, but what they really mean is finding somebody who will work nights and weekends on their assigned task but predictably and reliably follow orders and just work harder.

Very often my weekends are spent performing on Saturday, on stage in the afternoon and again in the evening.

Sure, theater is tough because you're not home at night a lot and you work on weekends - every job has its downside. But to do something that you love doing for two hours a night, that's a pretty sweet gig.

When what you do is play characters every day, all day, I wasn't really interested in playing a pop star on the weekends.

I've got two lives. Weekends, I go out and play rock star. Weekdays, I play granddad. You can't beat that.