Quotes About Performance

Students who learn to collaborate and negotiate - on Capitol Hill, in the board room, in everyday life - will outperform peers who have higher test scores.

California is the highest-tax state in the nation and has been for a long time. It has the highest-paid teachers in the nation, by far - $400 a month more than New Jersey - and yet California is the third lowest state on test scores for fourth and eighth grade English and math in the nation, and has been at the low level for a long, long time.

When student performance shows increases on test scores, that improvement is not associated with an increase in 'fluid intelligence' - that is, using logical thinking and problem solving in novel situations, rather than recalling previously learned facts and skills.

The very fact that people make an effort to search and know more about me is a testament that I am doing my job well.

With all the great products that are apparently out there that are undetectable, for me to take something like that... when people take things that now aren't even being tested for, does it make any sense?

I'm one of the most tested athletes in the world.

If you've got aspirations to be tested to the absolute maximum you want to be in the starting line-up.

I use TaylorMade. I've tested every golf ball. TaylorMades are great.

In training, I'm always being tested. I believe that if I'm training well, I will fight well.

When I test I never go right to the limit. Only because when you are below the limit you can go at the same speed all day, and that's the only way you can be absolutely sure about what you are testing.

For me, acting is becoming naked in front of people, you know? And when you know in the back of your mind somebody is testing you, you cannot really bare yourself. That's a feeling I always have when I'm auditioning.

Holding auditions in front of an audience is testing.

I still feel I belong to the theatre. There is nothing more challenging and exciting for an actor than performing before a live audience. The stage is the real testing ground for an actor.

We're tested eight, nine times a year - blood tested, urine tested, so I mean, if people think I'm doing something, tell them to increase the testing.

The truth is there's a difference between the competition shows where you're testing skills and the type of shows where you're trying to create drama.

For me I love playing against the best players in the world, testing yourself and seeing whether you can get the better of them.

How you go about testing is just very different to just being in the situation of qualifying, having to go out, having to nail the lap.

It's true that driving an F1 car in testing is helpful, it's not that you learn everything.

When you're limited on parts and you have reliability issues, you don't get the testing done. You need to really develop the car.

It's what counts, isn't it, on the Sunday, rather than pre-season testing. If you lock up, you do a little mistake, it's nothing, but if you do it on Sunday, you lose a place or you have to box for a flat spot or something like that. It's a much bigger problem.

I mean, does anyone seriously think there are no drugs in Olympic sports just because they do some kind of testing? They are highly competitive sports with highly competitive people and just with competitive business people do whatever they can do to get ahead.

At the 1985 Asian Track and Field meet in Jakarta, where I won five golds and a bronze, I was taken for testing after every race, which reduced my recovery time considerably; otherwise I could have performed even better.

I'm not one of these guys who thinks testing is the only thing. But testing is a piece but there has to be more human ways to evaluate what job teachers are doing and we have to do a better job of that.

Real competition can drive up testosterone, which boosts libido.