Performance matters because games are built on great performance. — Jensen Huang
An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises. — Mae West
The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities. — Sydney Smith
Live performance has always been my thing. It’s my purpose to master and capture the moment every time I have you connected. — Usher
I hate the word 'production'...it's a ceremony, it's a ritual...you should go out of the theatre stronger and more human than when you went in. — Ariane Mnouchkine
The test of true competence is the end result. — L. Ron Hubbard
Perfect preparation prevents piss-poor performance. — Woody Hayes
I'm not in competition with anybody but myself. My goal is to beat my last performance. — Celine Dion
It is not always possible to be the best, but it is always possible to improve your own performance. — Jackie Stewart
Life is the farce which everyone has to perform. — Arthur Rimbaud
No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure. — James K. Polk
Our righteousness doesn't depend on our present performance but on Jesus' finished performance. — Judah Smith
Only undertake what you can do in an excellent fashion. There are no prizes for average performance. — Brian Tracy
Performance Image Quotes
If I had a bad performance in a particular leotard, I threw it in the trash. — Mary Lou Retton
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
I have, before now, waited for a pen to perform a macro. — Terry Pratchett
The only unnatural sex act is that which you cannot perform. — Alfred Kinsey
I have a love-hate relationship with performing. — Sarah Brightman
I'm on performance enhancing drugs, so I may cause drowsiness. — Jay London
Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.
Good Performance Quotes
While we are zealously performing the duties of good citizens and soldiers, we certainly ought not to be inattentive to the higher duties of religion. To the distinguished character of Patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian. — George Washington
Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer. — Ted Williams
Girded with faith and the performance of good works, let us follow in his [Jesus] paths by the guidance of the Gospel. — Benedict of Nursia
The tiger and the lion may be more powerful, but the wolf does not perform in the circus.
Rate your individual acts as good or bad, if you like. Seek to perform as many good ones, and as few bad ones, as possible. — Oliver Burkeman
The success of Yoga does not lie in the ability to perform postures but in how it positively changes the way we live our life and our relationships. — T. K. V. Desikachar
Servant leadership always empathizes, always accepts the person, but sometimes refuses to accept some of the person's effort or performance as good enough. — Robert K. Greenleaf
To perform your best, you need to know who you are and why you think and feel the way you do.
Sluggish days and bad workouts maintain the compound gains you accrued from previous good days. — James Clear
Performing at my best is important to me and should be to everyone. I am blessed that my dad is a chiropractor. Getting adjusted regularly - along with practicing other good health habits that my mom helped me to establish - are all part of my goal to win in life and on the field. — Aaron Rodgers
Focusing on results might be good for short-term performance but it can be an obstacle to long-term learning. — Adam Grant
When one comes to comfort a young widow, he does not mean to perform a good deed. — Yiddish Proverbs
Team Performance Quotes
If you need to show up, you show up. You might detest every individual in the room, but if your presence makes them all feel better, if it pulls the team together, if it results in better performances, then you’ve helped yourself to get one step closer to your own goal." — Tim Grover
The glory of sport is witnessing a well-coached team perform as a single unit, striving for a common goal and ultimately bringing distinction to the jersey the players represent. — Dick Vitale
When the team is doing well, individual performances don’t count. — Smriti Mandhana
Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.
Focusing on strengths is the surest way to greater job satisfaction, team performance and organizational excellence. — Marcus Buckingham
The most direct path to achievement whether you're an entrepreneur, a company executive, or a pro soccer player is to be a great performer and a great team member. This is also the secret to a meaningful career and self-fulfillment. — Maynard Webb
If you continue to keep low performers on your team, that are actually dragging the team down; you're failing the whole team, and eventually, the whole team is going to fail. — Jocko Willink
Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.
Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers. — Stephen Covey
When I arrived at IBM, there were 'Team' signs all around. I asked, 'How do people get paid?' They told me, 'We pay people based on individual performance. — Lou Gerstner
I dont really like meetings, I like recording and performing music. I need to set myself up for when the time does come that I need better distribution or just a bigger team behind me. — Chance the Rapper
The challenge of every team is to build a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another because the question is usually not how well each person performs, but how well they work together. — Vince Lombardi
Work Performance Quotes
Don’t join an easy crowd; you won’t grow. Go where the expectations and the demands to perform are high. — Jim Rohn
You're always working to improve, and you're always being critiqued on your next performance. It's not about what you've done. There's always room to grow. — Misty Copeland
Productivity and efficiency can be achieved only step by step with sustained hard work, relentless attention to details and insistence on the highest standards of quality and performance. — J. R. D. Tata
I don't sing in the shower. I perform!
A woman who is perfectly woman is superior to a man who is imperfectly man, just as a farmer who is faithful to his land and performs his work perfectly is superior to a king who cannot do his own work. — Julius Evola
Prayer is the most important activity a born-again Christian can perform. It should head your list of priorities, for certainly the world around us desperately needs prayer. Prayer will open the door for God to do a glorious work in these last days. Prayer will stem the tide of evil. — Chuck Smith
We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed. — Brother Lawrence
The power of a song has over people... the simple fact that someone could be having awful day and your song or performance can make that all go away. The way it affects people's lives and how they can remember what was going in their life when they heard a certain song.
no work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps. — Uta Hagen
Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best. — Michael Johnson
Personality is essential. It is in every work of art. When someone walks on stage for a performance and has charisma, everyone is convinced that he has personality. I find that charisma is merely a form of showmanship. Movie stars usually have it. A politician has to have it. — Lukas Foss
While 9-5 and what happens on the job is important, what happens from 5-9, off the job, is infinitely more important. — Zig Ziglar
The Gospel is a very dangerous idea. We have to see how much of that dangerous idea we can perform in our own lives. There is nothing innocuous or safe about the Gospel. Jesus did not get crucified because he was a nice man. — Walter Brueggemann
I dont crave companionship. It stands in my way. I live for pleasure. There are few persons who can give me as much pleasure as those acts I perform myself. I would rather create pleasure according to my own whim than be subjected to the whims of others. — Anton Szandor LaVey
We did sketch comedy, performed live improv, and then we made the transition to TV with 'Impractical Jokers.' — Joe Gatto
I awaken in the morning with confidence, rejoicing in whatever work is given to me to do. Whatever that work is, I do it, not in order to earn a living or in a sense of performing an onerous duty; but, with joy and gladness, I let it unfold as the activity of God's expression through me. — Joel S. Goldsmith
When you use your body for a living, you have one job, and it requires one thing: work hard to stay in peak condition. That’s it. — Tim Grover
If he be really and seriously seeking to live a good life, the first thing from which he will abstain will always be the use of animal food, because ...its use is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to the moral feeling - killing. — Leo Tolstoy
Every animator is really an actor performing in slow motion, living the character a drawing at a time. — John Lasseter
Zen opens a man's eyes to the greatest mystery as it is daily and hourly performed; it enlarges the heart to embrace eternity of time and infinity of space in its every palpitation; it makes us live in the world as if walking in the garden of Eden — D.T. Suzuki
In the end, it doesn’t matter how well we have performed or what we have accomplished—a life without heart is not worth living. — John Eldredge
Musical Performance Quotes
In the end, worship can never be a performance, something you're pretending or putting on. It's got to be an overflow of your heart...Worship is about getting personal with God, drawing close to God. — Matt Redman
We love not just Judas Priest music, but we love heavy metal and we love to get out on that stage every night and perform. It's a joy to be able to do it. — Glenn Tipton
Mainly I was able to perform with music - I played the French horn, I would sing, and I was a drummer in the pipe band. So I think it was a way to show off. — Ewan McGregor
Dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music — Charles Baudelaire
Regardless of what you play, the biggest thing is keeping the feel going. — Wes Montgomery
I dare suggest that the composer would do himself and his music an immediate and eventual service by total, resolute and voluntary withdrawal from this public world to one of private performance and electronic media. — Milton Babbitt
Musically I try to connect a common bridge between such exhilarating feelings as performing at the Acropolis, to the emotions each and every one of us feel everyday. In the end, a good melody will always stand the test of time. — Bradley Joseph
Dance every performance as if it were your last. — Erik Bruhn
For some people, fame kills it and becomes more important than the music or the performance. But for me fame is like rocket fuel. The more my fans like what I'm doing, the more I want to give back to them. And my passion is so strong I can't sleep - I haven'tslept for three days. — Lady Gaga
Music is still the one thing that ties people together.
People can come together from all different religions,
walks of life, colours, creeds and enjoy the same song.
That's still the most incredible thing to me about performing live. — Dave Gahan
High Performance Quotes
As nervous as I am to pick up a water bottle, that's how nervous I am to perform. My confidence is very high. I really enjoy going up, I feel like it's my birthday everyday that I have to go up there. — Gucci Mane
Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations. — Peter Drucker
Spend more time recruiting. Take risks on high-potential people with a fast rate of improvement. Look for evidence of getting stuff done in addition to intelligence. — Sam Altman
One has to set high standards... I can never be happy with mediocre performance. — Patrice Motsepe
Sleep might be the most important aspect of building a great business and having a high-performing body. — Lewis Howes
The greats never stop learning. Instinct and talent without technique just makes you reckless, like a teenager driving a powerful, high-performance vehicle. — Tim Grover
Superstars are even more valuable than they seem, but you have to evaluate people on their net impact on the performance of the organization. — Sam Altman
As a coach, your high standards of performance, attention to detail and - above all - how hard you work set the stage for how your players perform. — Don Shula
You can learn more from the lows than the highs. The highs are great but the lows make you really look at things in a different way and want to improve. Every player will have both in their careers and I have, but what you get is that experience which is so important to perform at your best. — Wayne Rooney
Performing live is the greatest high in the world. That's why I do what I do — Toni Braxton
Stage Performance Quotes
I want to say it to so many people, 'why you have to be so serious?' And I also want people to think 'this kid has really gone crazy' when they see my performance on the stage. Luckily, I am able to achieve all of these. — G-Dragon
If you have stage fright, it never goes away. But then I wonder: is the key to that magical performance because of the fear? — Stevie Nicks
I just love the thrill of performing on stage. I believe that singing is something I was put here to do. — Lucy Hale
I want to be on stage and perform and win Grammys and help out my family in Bulgaria, because they are struggling, and my mom and dad, too. — Leah LaBelle
When you are on stage you are having an affair with three thousand people. — Gelsey Kirkland
Even as a stage performer, I have my garb which is leather jackets and black jeans to make me feel a certain way. The wardrobe is really important to feeling the character you're playing. — Andrew Dice Clay
Give me a guitar and I'll play; give me a stage and I'll perform; give me an auditorium and I'll fill it. — Eric Clapton
[On Katharine Hepburn's stage performance:] She ran the whole gamut of emotions, from A to B. — Dorothy Parker
Most people go on living their everyday life: half-frightened, half indifferent, they behold the ghostly tragic-comedy that is being performed on the international stage before the eyes and ears of the world. — Albert Einstein
I'm so powerful in stage that I seem to have created a monster. When I'm performing I'm an extrovert, yet inside I'm a completely different man. — Freddie Mercury
Performance Improvement Quotes
We're improv comedians, we're not necessarily actors, we don't come across that way. — Joe Gatto
Going to the gym for five minutes may not improve your performance, but it reaffirms your identity. — James Clear
The CARE bill is an important piece of patient-care legislation. It will improve the quality of radiologic procedures performed throughout the United States as well as assist in reducing the cost incurred by the Federal government for these procedures. — Charles W. Pickering
They discovered that naps as short as twenty-six minutes in length still offered a 34 percent improvement in task performance and more than a 50 percent increase in overall alertness. — Matthew Walker
It always takes two. There's the speaker and the listener, you and the audience. You've worked long hours and it comes down to that moment, that performance. The goal isn't just to improve yourself, but to transport people. — Gillian Murphy
The best performance improvement is the transition from the nonworking state to the working state. — John Ousterhout
Every time you compete, try harder to improve on your last performance. Give nothing short of your very best effort. — Elgin Baylor
Great performers in every domain improve through deliberate practice. — Angela Duckworth
There is no finish line when it comes to system reliability and availability, and our efforts to improve performance never cease. — Marc Benioff
A good athlete always mentally replays a competition over and over, even in victory, to see what might be done to improve the performance the next time. — Frank Shorter
Dance Performance Quotes
Dancers work and live from the inside. They drive themselves constantly producing a glow that lights not only themselves but audience after audience. — Murray Louis
You can fool the eyes and minds of the audience, but you cannot fool their hearts. — Howard Thurston
Dance is like wine; it matures with every performance. — Alarmel Valli
My father-in-law saw me at a dance performance. The next day, I got a phone call, and the caller said, 'I'm Dhirubhai Ambani... may I talk to Nita?' I said, 'It's a wrong number' and put down the phone. Then he called again... and I said, 'If you're Dhirubhai Ambani, then I'm Elizabeth Taylor.' — Nita Ambani
If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles. — Gertrude Stein
The reason dance has held such an ageless magic for the world is that it has been the symbol of the performance of living. — Martha Graham
You remember that my great vision came to me when I was only nine years old, and you have seen that I was not much good for anything until after I had performed the horse dance near the mouth of the Tongue River during my eighteenth summer. — Black Elk
I just wanted to perform. I just wanted to perform in whatever capacity, whether it was acting, singing, dancing, comedy - whatever it was, I just loved it and felt at my absolute happiest when I was performing for people. — James Corden
The real self of an artiste lies in art, so when an artiste performs, all the pain, trauma and tension get released through art, be it dancing, painting, singing, writing or even martial arts. — Mrinalini Sarabhai
I just always wanted to study human behavior because every psychologist that I would talk to would tell me I was bipolar, and I know I'm not bipolar, so I had to perform a psychoanalysis on myself to find out that I have unresolved grief. — Kevin Gates
Worrying gets you nowhere. If you turn up worrying about how you're going to perform, you've already lost. Train hard, turn up, run your best and the rest will take care of itself. — Usain Bolt
Every organization needs to be introspective, transparent, and honest with itself. This only works if everyone is unified on the goals and purposes of the organization and there is trust within the team. High-performing, successful organizations build cultures of introspection and trust and never lose sight of their purpose. — Colin Powell
A few well-designed movements, properly performed in a balanced sequence, are worth hours of doing sloppy calisthenics or forced contortion. — Joseph Pilates
There must be a world revolution which puts an end to all materialistic conditions hindering woman from performing her natural role in life and driving her to carry out man's duties in order to be equal in rights. — Colonel Muhammar Qaddafi
As long as you are performing prayer, you are knocking at the door of Allah, and whoever is knocking at the door of Allah, Allah will open it for him. — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
A Christian reveals true humility by showing the gentleness of Christ, by being always ready to help others, by speaking kind words and performing unselfish acts, which elevate and ennoble the most sacred message that has come to our world. — Ellen G. White
The typical citizen drops down to a lower level of mental performance as soon as he enters the political field. He argues and analyzes in a way which he would readily recognize as infantile within the sphere of his real interests. He becomes primitive again. — Joseph A. Schumpeter
I am convinced the greatest act of love we can ever perform for people is to tell them about God's love for them in Christ. — Billy Graham
The culture precedes positive results. It doesn't get tacked on as an afterthought on your way to the victory stand. Champions behave like champions before they're champions: they have a winning standard of performance before they are winners. — Bill Walsh
Successful careers are not planned. They develop when people are prepared for opportunities because they know their strengths, their method of work, and their values. Knowing where one belongs can transform an ordinary person - hardworking and competent but otherwise mediocre - into an outstanding performer. — Peter Drucker
For me, performing is the biggest part of being a rapper. There's nothing like the feeling of screaming your story to people. — Chance the Rapper
When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained. — Edward R. Murrow
The unique function of the nurse is to assist the individual, sick or well, in the performance of those activities contributing to health or its recovery (or to peaceful death) that he would perform unaided if he had the necessary strength, will or knowledge. And to do this in such a way as to help him gain independence as rapidly as possible. — Virginia Henderson
If you don't uphold your legal responsibility to enforce the First Amendment, to provide speakers with platforms and audiences with safe, the ability to listen to speakers of all different kinds, agnostic ideology, if you don't do that as a university, you are not performing your essential function. — Milo Yiannopoulos
Further, Take heed that you faithfully perform the business you have to do in the world, from a regard to the commands of God; and not from an ambitious desire of being esteemed better than others. — David Brainerd
To Be Successful You Don't Need Beautiful Face And Heroic Body, What You Need is Skillful Mind And Ability To Perform — Rowan Atkinson
With regard to performance, commitment, effort, dedication, there is no middle ground. Or you do something very well or not at all. — Ayrton Senna
Typographical design should perform optically what the speaker creates through voice and gesture of his thoughts. — El Lissitzky
The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. — Ada Lovelace
I find beauty in the continual shaping of chaos which clearly embodies the primordial power of nature's performance — Iris van Herpen
Dont ever be impressed with goal setting; be impressed with goal getting. Reaching new goals and moving to a higher level of performance always requires change, and change feels awkward. But take comfort in the knowledge that if a change doesn't feel uncomfortable, then it's propably not really a change. — John C. Maxwell
I was admonished ot adopt feminine clothes; I refused, and still refuse. As for other avocations of women, there are plenty of other women to perform them. — Joan of Arc
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