Quotes About Performance

Look at me! Look at me! Look at me NOW! It is fun to have fun But you have to know how.

And, now, come to this spot Where the spotlight is hot And you'll see in the spotlight A Juggling Jott Who can juggle some stuff You might think he could not... Such as twenty-two question marks, Which is a lot. Also forty-four commas And, also, one dot! That's the kind of Circus McGurkus I've got!

When all is said and done, more is always said than done.

Soap opera rappers, all these niggas sound like All My Children.

Drop the mixtape, that shit sounded like an album. Whoda thought a country wide tour would be the outcome.

Playing in New England and the Boston area, the fans are so passionate about their sports if you don't play well, they'll let you know so I know it's not something that they take lightly.

TV is easier: it's all planned out for you and the audience is there to see a show and they are all pumped up but when you are in a comedy club, you have to be really funny to win them over.

You know you're pitching well when the batters look as bad as you do at the plate.

To be sure that we are not just falling for the Halo Effect, we really need a different measure of performance altogether—one that assesses individual skill directly rather than by inferring it from outcomes that might be determined by forces beyond the individual's control.

The Halo Effect, in other words, turns conventional wisdom about performance on its head. Rather than the evaluation of the outcome being determined by the quality of the process that led to it, it is the observed nature of the outcome that determines how we evaluate the process.6

The source of the outrage, remember, isn't that bankers got paid lots of money—because we always knew that—but rather that they got paid lots of money for what now seems like disastrously bad performance.

Well, you know, I mean, we are usually good at getting multiple hits, and we couldn't string together multiple hits. But you know, we know that it's right around the corner, and our back's against the wall, so we've got to get them tomorrow. We've got to get those hits, and hopefully they don't.

I remember one time I asked Pete Rose, I was on first base, I said, "Pete why did you..." -- he fouled off about fifteen, and I could tell that he wasn't even trying to put them in play. He said he called it "sending the fans souvenirs" because he didn't like the guy on the mound.

I love making people laugh and feel good, and that's awesome and special for me to be able to do that, but there really is nothing like kicking ass whether it's on a major scale, or whether it's in more of a dramatic fashion. Being physical and taking care of business the old-fashioned way is something that I love doing.

I can't dance to save my life.

I never told a joke in my life.

When I'm singing, I'm happy. I'm doing what I can do and this is my contribution to life.

Your life is meant to be an epic story. How you think, perform and live today is part of that script.

The first time I walked on a stage I knew that was what I was created to do. I knew that there was a calling and a sense of purpose in my life that gave me fulfillment and a sense of destiny.

By taking elements you observe in life, you can develop qualities in your acting life that you don't ordinarily call upon in your personal life.

I will always do stand-up, even if my acting career takes off. Stand-up is my life.

This is the biggest night of my entire life and everybody's career rides on my DJ set

In acting, I always try to go back to what would actually be the real situation, the real human behavior in life.

Getting adjusted regularly is part of my goal to win in life and on the field.