Quotes About Performance

Music does help me a lot with my character, with the fact that I have to have a really good theme song, something that I can get into while I'm walking down the ramp. It puts me into that mindset that I'm going into a mosh pit.

Austin believes that winning or losing in binary is meaningless when there's a high score to beat.

It was the pressure of being told two things: 1. That I only had a short amount of time, and 2. That I had to get everything right.

If the songs were good, it would be a good day. If they were bad, I'd probably get a B on a quiz.

There was an older guy in a banana costume doing pelvic thrusts

My favorite. "Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull." ? Rod Serling

I have a very lively and colourful show. It's two hours of hits and the music speaks for itself.

Half the battle is selling music, not singing it. It's the image, not what you sing.

I became famous, I think, really because of the interpretation of other people's songs, way back when, and that's what I enjoy the most. And I'm a lazy bugger.

it has been estimated that the Iliad would have taken three full days to perform before an audience

Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide he exposes himself.

All a manager has to do is keep eleven players happy — the eleven in the reserves. The first team are happy because they are in the first team.

It was great fun. We had gone on tour in between the sessions and reconnected with the audience and got a lot of energy back from them, a lot of positive energy.

It's amazing to see places like Madison Square Garden on the schedule again.

my favorite urban flower, the baseball box score

A recent study of three thousand New England high-school kids shows that students with B averages or better enjoyed seventeen to thirty-three minutes more sleep and went to bed ten to fifty minutes earlier than students with C averages.

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fixing accountability will be the low-hanging fruit for optimizing performance in business for at least the next decade. Accountability

62 percent of respondents said that people often failed to stick to established deadlines, viewing them as general guidelines rather than must-do organizational mandates.

While losers languish Below The Line, preparing stories that explain why past efforts went awry, winners reside Above The Line, powered by commitment and hard work.

When you know you'll be facing yet another agenda with your name next to an action item, that kind of pressure will drive some very healthy accountable behavior.

Getting everyone to set their expectations on how they will work together and consciously think about what it will take to create a high-performing team will yield huge dividends. To build team trust, make sure you talk about it. Personally

Too often, leaders attempt to change the way people act without changing the way they think (i.e., their beliefs). As a result, they get compliance, but not commitment; involvement, but not investment; and progress, but not lasting performance.

What else can I do to achieve the result?