Quotes About Performance

Basketball is sort of an interesting sport that, you know, the top player on your team makes so much more of an impact than the top player in any other sport.

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Successfully (whatever that may mean) or unsuccessfully, we all overact the part of our favorite character in fiction.

But somehow something kind of went wrong on the way between the wanting and the saying. And then the doing seemed to go just as wrong as the saying. She always wanted to do things excitingly, romantically, like in a play. But you can't make things be exciting and romantic, can you?

In all psychophysical skills we have this curious fact of the law of reversed effort: the harder we try, the worse we do the thing.

The point of a knighthood for British actors is to enable them to play butlers.

Alessandro Baricco

Being simply "better than average" is not good enough. You have to be head and shoulders above the crowd to win a minus-sum game.

En realidad, encuentro que el porcentaje de inversores exitosos es mayor entre las mujeres. Como grupo, tienden a ser más disciplinadas y menos arrogantes que los hombres.

Nobody enjoys being on display, said Isabel. But then she thought: Some do, and so she added, Except actors. And narcissists.

She watched him take the trumpet from its case and fit the mouthpiece. She watched as he raised it to his lips and then, so suddenly, from that tiny cup of metal against his flesh, the sound would burst out like a glorious, brilliant knife dividing the air. And the little room would reverberate and the flies, jolted out of their torpor, would buzz round and round as if riding the swirling notes.

Violins sang, brass crowed, while bassoons, she felt, rumbled according to a Richter scale all of their own. Charlie

It had made her think of the moral flavour of music. Could music really have a moral quality in itself, or was it given this by the circumstances in which it was played - and by the reasons behind its performance. Music could be pressed into military service: a triumphal march would be good if played by the right side, and wrong if played by those in the wrong.

Number 7 opened last night. It was misnamed by five.

There are no consequences for poor work ethic and no rewards for good work ethic.

the very judicious plan of dividing the two acts of the opera with a ballet

The definition of a strength that we will use throughout this book is quite specific: consistent near perfect performance in an activity.

Skills are so enticingly helpful that they obscure their two flaws. The first flaw is that while skills will help you perform, they will not help you excel.

Our definition of a weakness is anything that gets in the way of excellent performance.

Satisfactions provide the last clue to talent. As we described in the previous chapter, your strongest synaptic connections are designed so that when you use them, it feels good. Thus, obviously, if it feels good when you perform an activity, chances are that you are using a talent.

The performance is over." The audience got up. "It's time to put on your fur coats and go home." They looked round. But it turned out that there were no fur coats and no homes.

An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling.

I always tell actors not to use their face for nothing. Don't start scribbling on the paper until you have something to write.

The only way you can motivate people is to communicate with them." Effective communication also shapes values for people by "not only bringing company philosophy to life . . . ," as Peters and Austin put it, but also "helps newcomers understand how shared values affect individual performance.