Quotes About Performance

I like there to be some testosterone in rock, and it's like I'm the one in the dress who has to provide it.

In aptitude tests, I scored highest in music.

If interviewers are prejudiced against women or Hispanics, for example, a face-to-face interview will predictably result in discrimination. Reliance on tests, or on actual or past performance, can promote equality.

It is a bowler's skill that gets him wickets in Tests.

You have T20 and that also plays a part in some of the shots batsmen play. You see guys playing the same shots in T20s and Tests and are sometimes lucky to get away with it.

Everyone here at Milan knows that my physical fitness is among the best in the squad; I always stand out in the tests.

You know, in pressure games everyone tests your skills on and off the field.

If you have knocked over a batsman once - fine, it happens. Twice, OK. But more than that in the space of a few Tests then there is definitely something to work with.

When it comes to efficiency, standardized tests almost sound heaven-sent.

This is not a tough job. You read a script. If you like the part and the money is OK, you do it. Then you remember your lines. You show up on time. You do what the director tells you to do. When you finish, you rest and then go on to the next part. That's it.

You did a bang-up job, but I can't give you an A because you were up against such feeble opposition.

You should train more for speed. You have the reflexes of an old lady.

To watch him sit a horse was better than hearing music. Every motion did easy. He and his animal were one graceful entity, as though they'd not been asked to work, but to waltz.

I hate auditioning. I just can't do it. I get so nervous, like cripplingly nervous. I'm bad at them, and I feel awful afterward.

Just tell 'em you're gonna soak the fat boys and forget the rest of the tax stuff...Willie, make 'em cry, make 'em laugh, make 'em mad, even mad at you. Stir them up and they'll love it and come back for more, but, for heaven's sakes, don't try to improve their minds.

I daresay one good concert justifies a week of satisfaction at home.

It's sort of a feeling of power onstage. It's really the ability to make people smile, or just to turn them one way or another for that duration of time, and for it to have some effect later on. I don't really think it's power... it's the goodness.

I love being on stage. I'm completely, totally relaxed. It's the only time in my life when I know where I am and what's coming next. The other Robert Powell is probably fairly melancholic. Let's just say happiness isn't my default position. There are dark parts. I'm very good at it. I frighten people sometimes.

Though we may not be so extreme, many of us do have certain Christian activities (church attendance, tithing, Bible studies, and so on) that we feel we must do to be good Christians. These activities themselves are obviously not wrong, but a performance-oriented perspective is wrong.

When you play, never mind who listens to you.

Endeavour to play easy pieces well and with elegance; that is better than to play difficult pieces badly.

When you try to act from what you don't really feel inside, it becomes harder to become effective at it.

There's no hope of me becoming completely relaxed on stage. If I did, I'd sit down and doze off.

Political and economic experts, for example, actually do worse than dart-throwing monkeys when it comes to making long-term predictions.