Quotes About Performance

In other words, energizers raise the overall level of performance around them.

Compared by one commentator to "the death rattle of a seagull," Costello's voice was later said to have provided the model for Marlon Brando's memorable performance in The Godfather.

Poetry reading is the chamber music of the actor's craft.

The difference between and amateur and a professional.. a professional believes if a job is worth doing, it is worth doing well. An amateur believes if a job is worth doing, it very well may be worth doing badly.

You may have experienced this phenomenon in the form of test anxiety. The more important you believe the test to be, the more you have riding on the outcome, the more fear you feel. And then you find it difficult to concentrate.

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It was plain that he had had a lot of training, for nobody ever sang so by the light of Nature.

What school performance of anything is ever less than a triumph?

I shall practice, that I may dazzle you when next we meet." There was a little silence, and Luthe said, "You need not try to dazzle me.

What gets measured gets improved.

Only the mediocre die always at their best. Real leaders are always improving—and raising their bar on how superbly they can perform and how quickly they can move. —JEAN GIRAUDOUX

Nearly every morning, I envision my ideal performance for the day ahead. I also reach deep into my emotions so I feel what it will feel like when I achieve the wins I've planned to accomplish. I lock myself into an extremely confident state where any form of failure isn't within the realm of possibility. Then I go out and do my finest to live out that perfect day.

too many people dilute their cognitive bandwidth and fragment their attention, accepting poor performances and ordinary achievements while leading lives of disappointing mediocrity.

Most people try to be all things to all people and, in so doing, achieve nothing. Elite performers have a laser-like focus on their highest priorities and an acute awareness of the best uses of their time. In fact, they build their whole lives around the activities that offer them the highest return on investment. They are good at saying no.

Titles don't interest me at all. Doing my best work is all that matters to me. And I don't need to have any formal authority to do that.

And so I've made the decision to give nothing less than my very best at this job." "Great standard to hold yourself

exceptional performers make phenomenal things happen to them.

Tennis great Billie Jean King said that pressure is a privilege

The way you practice in private is precisely the way you'll perform once you're in public.

Leadership has nothing to do with what you get or where you sit. Leadership's a lot more about how brilliantly you work and how masterfully you behave

ideation without execution is mere delusion

It's the best five players that win the game, not the five best players.

The grade of work you offer to the world reflects the strength of the respect you have for yourself.

I've learned that the bigger the ego, the weaker the performance.