Quotes About Performance

I was known for being quite... ruthless at ABB. I drove hard targets, pushed my people. But I was always fair. Once I was convinced of someone, I let them handle things themselves. But if you kept doing badly, there was no place for you.

I like to set aggressive targets; without them, you will get ordinary performances.

What are the targets at Arsenal? Are they to be a successful business or a successful team?

If you're making money, and you've hit your targets for five years, you don't need to demand a new contract.

Prime Minister Modi keeps challenging the system to keep performing better and better. He sets aggressive targets, and the whole system has to act.

Getting a reward for reaching certain sales targets is certainly attractive.

Anyone who comes to Paris Saint-Germain knows there will be a lot of pressure, and that comes with having big targets.

I am just an actor - all I do is I memorise someone else's words and tart around.

Truth in drama is forever elusive. You never quite find it, but the search for it is compulsive. The search is clearly what drives the endeavour. The search is your task.

You can't control what the other athlete is going to do; you can't control anything except for your competition and how you execute the race or how you execute the task.

Music industry is a very competitive field, and one has to continuously entertain and excite the audience, which is a difficult task.

It's no simple task getting the very best from each and every member of the squad.

When you go out there, and you're in the ring, honestly, half the time you forget what city you're even in because you're so focused on what you're doing and the task at hand.

Playing the character of Arjun is a challenging task, and I like taking up challenges.

Jimmy Kimmel has proven to be a preeminent voice in comedy, with 15 seasons of 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' under his belt and successfully tackling the herculean task of hosting both the Emmys and the Oscars in the same season.

Being cold for a short period of time is not life-threatening. You can perform a task when you're cold. We proved that when the Vikings played outside.

The concept of clearing one's mind before performing a task so that it is consumed by nothing but that task, yet is open at the same time to anything that might happen - that concept can be applied to playing guitar, and it's enormously helpful for improvising.

When you're in between the white lines, the game face is on. I was only focused on the task at hand - out, safe, ball, strike - leaving little time to think about how special a player, moment or game happened to be.

Even when a man and a woman perform equally well in a task - say, solving math problems - men are more willing to enter competitions based on that task. Men also show less risk aversion.

Sometimes, I feel promoting a film is a more difficult task than acting!

It's not an easy task to match Charan. He is really a good dancer, and he comes straight to the sets without rehearsals.

Speaking can be a lot like exercise: The more time you spend getting ready, the more you mentally build the task into something larger than it actually is.

It takes locking in on the task at hand and honing in on what you need to do in order to be successful in the NBA postseason.

I remember watching Audrey Hepburn dancing in movies, and I was inspired by how graceful she looked, though I understand it was no easy task.