Performance Quotes - Page 2

I always said I'm just an instrument; I'm transparent, like a medium, the language passes through me. Which is a bit like saying I'm a recording device, I start and I go. I had a real connection to ongoing, language production in real time.

One American in seven has no coverage, and one in three younger than sixty-five will lose coverage at some point in the next two years. These are people who aren't poor or old enough to qualify for government programs but whose jobs aren't good enough to provide benefits either.

Investor confidence rests on leaders who deliver.

I am a deeply uncertain individual. I often find myself acting like a fool to make the people around me laugh. When they’re laughing, they’re not watching me quite as closely. I smile to put people at ease. But what if I opened my mouth one day, spoke my actual thoughts, and the people glared at my opinions? What if they thought me disgusting or frightening or ugly because of my words? Would you keep your lips shut for the rest of your life to not face that judgment? Just for the sake of someone else’s comfort? For these strangers, who I will never know? If I can’t speak then I’ll write. These strangers, whose opinions crush me, will be forced to listen. Because when they read my words those words will make a home within their heads. They may even end up using my own opinions against me. But at least I’ll be hidden behind the pages of a book.

Helping others is an effective way of training oneself.

Intelligent efforts are successful.

Good sales copy creates good sales.

An uninspired mind creates a lack of energy for the body, resulting in a lack of performance filled with excuses.

Appreciation always enhances performance. Criticism destroys the enthusiasm.

Girls are the only ones who can really give each other close attention, the kind we equate with being loved. They noticed what we want noticed.And that's what I did for Tamar, I responded to her symbols. To the style of her hair and clothes and the smell of her L'Air Du Temps perfume. Like this was data that mattered. Signs that reflected something of her inner self. I took her beauty personally.

One forgets that part of one's performance is one's history—or sometimes the lack of it. You're playing against what an audience knows, what they expect. This seems to be true of all performers; there's baggage that gets carried into the venue that we can't see.

When we help others to perform at the highest level of their potential, we receive something of value; our character is strengthened.

Putting words onto paper—when it is done as an honest act of search or connection, rather than as an act of manipulation, performance, self-aggrandizement or self-protection—is a holy act.

My wit is only as stupid as the audience.

Training of parts leads to training of the whole.

The elegance under pressure is the result of fearlessness.

you give your best for today, you create a greater tomorrow.

A positive change in approach improves quality.

Compromise makes relationships survive.

You don’t have to compete with any one. Seek to outdo your own performance. You will always be happy.

When the body is in trouble, we must find and eliminate the cause, not medicate the symptom

Needless documentation hampers performance.

Mutually helping team members achieve both individual and team objectives.

For further communication, previous communication may be archived or discarded.

We change our attitudes, our careers, our relationships. Even our age changes minute by minute. We change our politics, our moods, and our sexual preferences. We change our outlook, we change our minds, we change our sympathies. Yet when someone changes hir gender, we put hir on some television talk show. Well, here’s what I think: I think we all of us do change our genders. All the time. Maybe it’s not as dramatic as some tabloid headline screaming “She Was A He!” But we do, each of us, change our genders. In response to each interaction we have with a new or different person, we subtly shift the kind of man or woman, boy or girl, or whatever gender we’re being at the moment. We’re usually not the same kind of man or woman with our lover as we are with our boss or a parent. When we’re introduced for the first time to someone we find attractive, we shift into being a different kind of man or woman than we are with our childhood friends. We all change our genders.

Change does not surface when you are not ready to be the catalyst. Your reaction matters, not your inaction.

Those benefiting from the status quo, resist change.

If the difficult tasks are completed first, then the remaining tasks seem easy.

There are those who dance the notes, and those who dance the music.

An applause is not just the recognition of good performance, but its proof of being different than the crowd.

The world is a show and the show is a performance of the wealthy, the beautiful and the fortunate. The invulnerable, the matchless and the exclusive live a life like dazzling fish in a scintillating seascape behind glass. Everybody may admire them, but nobody can touch them. ( “Keeping up with the Joneses” )

The highest training trains oneness.

Love is 100% percent practical, oral performance is an ultimate turn-off, whether you like it or not.

There are two conversations going on at the same time: the story and a conversation about how the story is being told.

Quality is all about taking care of the details.

Knowledge if churned like milk, results in the butter of wisdom.

On the Rolling Stones - You will walk out of the Amphitheatre after watching the Stones perform and suddenly the Chicago stockyards smell clean and good by comparison.

​Till mirrors were Invented, Face was not You, Not Even part of Your Performance.

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.

Time management is essential for a work-life balance.

If you don’t see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.

Only time can reveal the future.

Unfulfilled needs makes training unfulfilled.

The Leader who sets a vision and encourages others to to take ownership in their future will obtain the greatest reward of overall performance resulting in success.~bns~

Angry issues need settling time.

In relationships, the cheater is unable to trust anyone, including the cheated.

Conflicts are expensive.

A movie that gets closer to the life's reality of the society finds always more words of mouth publicity in entirety.

No man is ordinary, only their performances are ordinary.

Change is possible only if the top management agrees.

Change is difficult, since it challenges the status quo.

If you are not angry with your average performance, you can't effect a change! You must get upset to grab the energy to break the fence confining you!

Life is a stage: perform your masterpiece.

Adverse situations used advantageously can offer solutions to problems.

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.

Leaders rule hearts, not people.

Relationships need to be valued today, for tomorrow is uncertain.

You can't reign in obscurity you can't shine in your comfort zone.

The last goose in the column is flying just as high.

Powerpoint presentations are a kind of theater, a kind of augmented stand-up. Too often it's a boring and tedious genre, and audiences are subjected to the bad as well as the good.