Quotes about Performance

At the Day of Judgment, we shall not be asked what we have read, but what we have done.

I didn't feel the need for anonymous affection, for people in the dark applauding. To me, it would be like writing a novel and then getting up every night and reading your novel.

The best way to advance in a career is to get great results while working with people.

Early in the afternoon she placed Schumann's concerto in A minor on the desk of the pianoforte, arranged her seat before it, and left the room.

Every nerve and muscle in Rosamond was adjusted to the consciousness that she was being looked at. She was by nature an actress of parts that entered into her physique: she even acted her own character, and so well, that she did not know it to be precisely her own.)

In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance... you thrive on that.

I knew it would soon be the end, so I played the part, you know, the part of how shall I say, I dont know.

It's a tough thing-you get in a situation where you feel you have to be perfect all the time and it sucks.

Acting is the only time when I truly maintain the spontaneity that I want to be present at all times.

There will be occasions in each of our lives when we will be called upon to explain or to defend our beliefs. When the time for performance arrives, the time for preparation is past.

High achievers dwell on what they do well and spend very little time evaluating themselves and their performances.

Where there are things to be done the end is not to survey and recognize the various things, but rather to do them.