Top 1200 Poor Performance Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

For me, digital is just another avenue. It doesn't mean that it has to be poor quality or poor content. But, you still run into the same struggles. You can't have full-on language, violence or sexual situations. You can't run rampant with the fact that it's digital. You can't do anything you want. You still have a responsibility to tell a story first, and show what the character is going through first, and then maybe you have a little bit of lee-way to show a more real side of life.

A multithreaded file system is only a performance hack.

A powerful performance will transform everyone in the room.

By using general consumption PPPs, the World Bank is, in effect, saying to the poor: "Sure, you cannot buy as much food as the dollar value we attribute to your income would buy in the United States. But then you can buy much more by way of services than you could buy with this PPP equivalent in the United States." But what consolation is this? The poor do not buy services - they are services, on their luckier days.

There are two categories of actresses: performance-oriented ones and glamourous ones.

You can't, or you shouldn't, be nominated for an Oscar unless you've turned in a performance that's special.

"And when you had made sure of the poor little fool," said my aunt - "God forgive me that I should call her so, and she gone where YOU won't go in a hurry - because you had not done wrong enough to her and hers, you must begin to train her, must you? begin to break her, like a poor caged bird, and wear her deluded life away, in teaching her to sing YOUR notes?"

Criticism shouldn't be a performance that upstages the work it's talking about.

Winning an Oscar ain't about performance. There's a lot of politics involved.

I can sit on a chair with a score and give myself a wonderful performance.

If thou desire not to be poor, desire not to be too rich. He is rich, not that possesses much, but he that covets no more; and he is poor, not that enjoys little, but he that wants too much. The contented mind wants nothing which it hath not; the covetous mind wants, not only what it hath not, but likewise what it hath.

Dance is like wine; it matures with every performance.

Performance is better than promise. Exuberant assurances are cheap.

Nothing has more words and performance than rap music.

People care about performance and results above all else.

I consider that my best performance ever was as Peer Gynt.

One's performance is often heightened by the brilliance and generosity of other actors.

Chris Chandler is the best performance poet I have ever seen.

The bottom line is that your performance is made in the editing room.

The best form of endurance exercise is the performance of the event.

On the one hand, I loved being a banker. I loved how numbers could tell a story and how you can invest in ideas and see them translate into products and services and create jobs. What I didn't like, particularly where I was working in Brazil during the debt crisis of the early '80s, was how the poor were excluded from the banking system. I made the decision to try and experiment with whether we could use the tools of banking to extend the benefits of the economy to the poor.

Only undertake what you can do in an excellent fashion. There are no prizes for average performance.

I have never taken any substance to enhance my performance.

I owe one thing to my public - the best performance I can give.

I love competing in front of a crowd. I enjoy the performance.

The eating of burning brimstone is an entirely fake performance.

Republicans ... are conservatives who think it would be best if we faced the fact that people are no damned good. They think that if we admit that we have selfish, acquisitive natures and then set out to get all we can for ourselves by working hard for it, that things will be better for everyone. They are not insensitive to the poor, but tend to think the poor are impoverished because they won't work. They think there would be fewer of them to feel sorry for if the government did not encourage the proliferation of the least fit among us with welfare programs.

I loved Jennifer Lawrence's performance in 'Winter's Bone.'

You can lose in cinema too if you don't put on a good performance.

Audience want to watch a good performance at the end of the day.

My performance is totally dependent on what the other actors are doing.

The importance of music extends well beyond its performance.

It's important to go out on the pitch and make a fantastic performance.

Because by now Elinor had understood this, too: A longing for books was nothing compared with what you could feel for human beings. The books told you about that feeling. The books spoke of love, and it was wonderful to listen to them, but they were no substitute for love itself. They couldn't kiss her like Meggie, they couldn't hug her like Resa, they couldn't laugh like Mortimer. Poor books, poor Elinor.

My first live performance was the lead in 'Peter Pan.'

Basically this is what you want?-?a high performance machine that idiots can run.

Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet.

In film, I like transformation. That goes for the language, for the image, for the performance.

The performance is created by the director. The actor is the material. And I think that has to be true.

A great physique and a good performance make for a delicious combination.

There is no substitute for work; what seems ease of performance comes from the greatest labor.

When you drive it is you, the car and your performance on track that counts. That is why I do it.

As long as that spark of passion is missing there is no human significance in the performance.

I sell out shows. My performance is top-tier.

In theater, blood is ketchup; in performance, everything's real.

Positive attitude plus effort equals performance.

Being broke and poor - I mean, you grow up in the environment I grew up in, grew up hard and grew up poor. Your mom doesn't have a car until you make it to the NBA... no telephone. So, I mean, if you grow up like that, and you're able to make it to this level and be blessed the way I've been blessed, it's always great to give back.

I don't think anyone could ever be wholly satisfied with their performance.

I'd rather do my own performance than copy someone else's.

I was always training for appearance rather than performance.

[The Surf Lodge performance] is sort of like an annual thing.

Overcoming barriers to performance is how groups become teams.

More paper money cannot make a society richer, of course, – it is just more printed-paper. Otherwise, why is it that there are still poor countries and poor people around? But more money makes its monopolistic producer (the central bank) and its earliest recipients (the government and big, government-connected banks and their major clients) richer at the expense of making the money's late and latest receivers poorer.

It is a poor thing to strike our colors to God when the ship is going down under us; a poor thing to come to Him as a last resort, to offer up 'our own' when it is no longer worth keeping. If God were proud He would hardly have us on such terms: but He is not proud, He stoops to conquer, He will have us even though we have shown that we prefer everything else to Him.

I say this quite deliberately, this is the finest Shakespearean performance I've seen.

I'm on performance enhancing drugs, so I may cause drowsiness.

Everything I do is geared towards improving my next performance.

An amazing performance is always a reflection of awesome amounts of practice.

Wealth is not determined by investment performance, but by investor behavior.

You can only elevate individual performance by elevating that of the entire system.