Best 262 quotes in «performance quotes» category
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According to a recent study of military personnel conducted through the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, introverts function better than extroverts when sleep deprived, which is a cortically de-arousing condition (because losing sleep makes us less alert, active, and energetic).
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A competent manager ensures competent performance.
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A clear mind achieves success.
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Addressing the interests of the audience, results in effective communication.
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A Dr van 't Hoff of the veterinary college at Utrecht... finds it a less arduous task to mount Pegasus (evidently borrowed from the veterinary school) and to proclaim in his La Chemie dans l' espace how, during his bold fight to the top of the chemical Parnassus, the atoms appeared to him to have grouped themselves together throughout universal space. ... I should have taken no notice of this matter had not Wislicenus oddly enough written a preface to the pamphlet, and not by way of a joke but in all seriousness recommended it a worthwhile performance.
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Actions undertaken in anger, only result in pain, sorrow, and regret.
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Actors are learnt in flimsy ways. They’re speaking the words of someone else when you see them. A professional. Those are not their thoughts. So when you’re interviewing one it’s a bit of a gamble. Can they even string a sentence together? Are they an idiot? Are they the smartest person in the room? Are they well-read? Are they interesting? It always comes down to that last question. Are you interesting? Will you make this unique? I walked into this conversation expecting something. Can you deliver your lines like your characters do? Sometimes the answer is a resounding yes. Those are the best days. The worst ones go horribly. Because they’re just boring.
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Adverse situations used advantageously can offer solutions to problems.
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A human being always acts and feels and performs in accordance with what he imagines to be true about himself and his environment...For imagination sets the goal ‘picture’ which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of ‘will,’ as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.
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A healthy company culture is a set of norms and behaviors that support high performance and supports the team as they move towards ultimate success. Visit these norms regularly. Everybody visits them regularly, from the CEO to the Truck Drivers.
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An applause is not just the recognition of good performance, but its proof of being different than the crowd.
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Alone onstage, I lifted my head up to the light and released my voice, not knowing what would come out. And what flowed out was a voice I'd never heard before: not the tilted croak of nervousness, nor the menagerie of beauty formed in Mr. Matthewman's music room. This was something altogether different: passionately raw, wrenchingly incandescent. As I sang, I traveled to places I never wanted to go. Where a heart broke with the grief of unrequited love. Where hollowed-out eyes turned upwards to empty skies above. To the widest, most open expanse of a land of utter emptiness and loneliness. My voice rose up to the upper banners and spread from row to row, passing from person to person like a pale chiffon ribbon billowing across every cheek. A subtle caress.
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Anger creates distances that shouting increases.
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Angry issues need settling time.
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An uninspired mind creates a lack of energy for the body, resulting in a lack of performance filled with excuses.
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Anger management requires understanding.
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Any performer tries to perform music as if for the first time, with all that energy and excitement that comes from discovering a new piece--maybe trying to recreate the memory of falling in love with a piece when hearing it first as a child--and just as people regularly say of a brilliant conductor that they seem to conduct as if recreating the energy an audience must have felt when the piece was first played decades, even centuries, before, so too I think we need to communicate our knowledge with the passion we first encountered as children.
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Any place you compromise in principle you will execute in performance.
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Any work not executed honestly, fails to fulfill its objective.
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A performance does not capture or communicate with the mood and feelings of that very moment.
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A performance must capture or communicate with the mood and feelings of that very moment.
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A positive change in approach improves quality.
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Apathy's just a front. People offer it when there's something stronger hiding underneath. You have to work harder to tap into it, but then your performance has even more power.
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Appreciation always enhances performance. Criticism destroys the enthusiasm.
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A satisfied customer brings more customers.
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Art is the reflection of pure emotion and mind, the nature of sensation. An artist illustrates that.
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Assessment precedes improvement.
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As a spectator I witnessed the applause given to the performer, so I decided to be the performer.
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A team is more than the sum of the individuals.
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A team succeeds where an individual fails.
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Aufgabe des Ökonomen ist es nicht, über die grundsätzliche Wahrscheinlichkeit, mit der sportliche Talente die in sie gesetzten Erwartungen erfüllen, zu befinden, sondern ebendiese durch eine leistungsorientierte Vergütung zu erhöhen.
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As the manager sits before a performance, as the critics wait like hungry dogs to rip apart the performance, they all become entwined in the theatrics of it all.
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A willing spirit, diligently perform the sacred duty.
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Calmness subdues anger.
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[Building purpose is...] not as simple as carving a mission statement in granite or encouraging everyone to recite a hymnal of catchphrases. It's a never-ending process of trying, failing, reflecting and above all learning. High-purpose environments don't descend on groups from on high; they are dug out of the ground, over and over, as a group navigates it's problems together and evolves to meet the challenges of a fast-changing world.
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Change is constant.
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Change is difficult, since it challenges the status quo.
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Change does not surface when you are not ready to be the catalyst. Your reaction matters, not your inaction.
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Change is possible only if the top management agrees.
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Comparable specification Windows 10 computers from multiple manufacturers can have very different performance between them.
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Compete with no man but thyself. Always seek opportunities to improve upon your best performance.
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Compromise makes relationships survive.
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Compliance” is just a subset of “governance” and not the other way around.
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Conflicts have small beginnings.
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Conflicts may create unfathomable distances.
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Conflicts are expensive.
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Conflicts need to be resolved at the earliest.
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Conversation often becomes mere verbal performance and oral horseplay rather than fair-minded communication. (“Juicy rumours “)
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Collective leadership effectiveness drives business performance.
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Creativity is when a stupid clever soul gets up from bed and does amazing things that makes the world think he is wise.