Top 1200 Best Performance Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

We need to honor our troops who served and show our support by giving our men and women who served the best health care, the best educational opportunities, and the best job training available. They deserve nothing less.

I have a great editor and I enjoy, in a masochistic way, being ruthless about my own performance. How do I know, but I think I'm quite good at saying, "That's no good. That's no good. That's it. That's it. That's good." And I'm with the editor who goes, "No, I think you're wrong. That's not your best." There's an initial point in the editing, if you're directing yourself, especially in my case, where you go, "Ouch, ouch, ouch, I can't watch this." And then, there's a point where you become hard-nosed and just take your neurosis away and go, "What's working? That's okay. That's okay. We can lose that, and lose that." You get objective about it.

One of the challenges mature companies face is evaluating performance and furthering the business.

I came from my hometown team, Real Sociedad, to the best team in England, to the best team in Spain, to the best team in Germany.

I am pessimistic, I think that's the best way to be, because if you're always expecting the best - the best doesn't always happen. Nine times out of 10 it doesn't. I'm surprised when things go smoothly. I don't know what's wrong with being pessimistic - unless you are such a pessimist that you don't do anything.

If you look at my career graph, I have always chosen roles that are performance-oriented.

For those of you with a guy best friend, ask yourself this: is he really just been your best friend? Has he always been your best friend? Is that how he sees it? Is that how you want to see it? I firmly believe that guys and girls can be great friends without love getting in the way but there are those couples who do fall for their best friends. Are you one of them?

I'm not a performance artist or any of that, I'm not out to please anyone. Just me.

[On Katharine Hepburn's stage performance:] She ran the whole gamut of emotions, from A to B.

The adequacy of performance attainments depends upon the personal standards against which they are judged

We were doing performance art as far back as 1965, just not calling it that.

Of course it's not a normal thing to show a good performance every time.

Live theater is an amorphous art, constantly shifting and evolving with every performance.

The most memorable performance was my appearance in concert in Carnegie Hall. The first standup to do so.

What's fantastic is that there's a real growing appreciation for performance-capture technology as a tool for acting.

You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.

How you measure the performance of your managers directly affects the way they act.

The seven Ps: Proper Planning and Preparation Prevent Piss-Poor Performance

In film, there are always things that could conceivably create artificiality in any performance.

The audience, the place youre in, has everything to do with how your performance goes.

You have to find the right situation, and you have to be in that right mindset where you can give everything you have to that. Because whatever I do, I want to be the best at. I want to be the best husband. I want to be the best father.

I have a degree in vocal performance, I'm a classically trained singer, and I studied musical theatre.

I like actors who don't have to think too hard about what they have to do to achieve their performance.

I come from a broadcast background where I just prefer a lighter approach to my performance.

If you can raise the level of effort and performance in those around you, you are officially a leader.

The level of comic performance has certainly gone down over the years.

They were singing, Gillette, the best a man can get, with a lot of guys hugging their fathers and sailing and riding bikes. I suddenly felt a long way from the best a man could get and I thought it would be nice to get from there to the best.

All I can say is, I did my best. This was the job I undertook, I did my best, and I could not have done more in the circumstances. What people think of it, I have to leave to them. It is of no great consequence. What is of consequence is I did my best.

When people call me either a girl crush or their best friend, like, the best friend they want, that's, to me, the best compliment anyone could ever give me.

The magic behind every outstanding performance is always found in the smallest of details.

Part of the reason there's an injunction to the truth, for example, is that if you're in a circumstance of extreme uncertainty, your best weapon, let's say, or your best tool or your best defense is the truth, because it keeps things simpler.

The last thing I think I am is perfect. I'm just trying to do the best job I can. I'm trying to be the best father I can to my kids. I'm trying to do the best job I can running my business.

If we're going to be on this futuristic 3008 vibe, we need to step up our performance.

pay attention to what I eat and to how I balance that with physical and mental exercise. The same way I want to spend time filling my mind with the best information I can acquire from the best sources I can obtain, I also want to consume nourishment from the best sources for my body.

Okay, 'Best Party Ever' -- to me, that's like saying 'Best Gym Ever' or 'Best Nature Documentary Ever,' like how good can it really be?

Debra Winger doesn't let anything interfere with her performance, which is the way it should be

Promises may get friends, but it is performance that must nurse and keep them.

I tied so much of my self-worth - and trust me, if you're a runner, you understand this - to my performance.

Writing is very much perceived as something distinct from performance. I don't see it like that.

Jimmy Snuka was one of the great performers in the business. In ring performance wise he was phenomenal.

To be able to research directly from firefighters makes all the difference in the world in the authenticity of a performance.

What great executives do is not magic. Their performance is made possible by specific, identifiable skills.

So I'm one of the few celebrities that got to do a repeat performance on 'The Simpsons,' which I'm very flattered by.

I was in a band when I was in high school, and I was bitten by the performance bug, if anything else.

I'm one of these people who would rather show you than tell you through the performance.

Your performance gets you promoted. It doesn't matter if you're brown, back or white.

It's a form of bullying, in my opinion, to make sure that your kid gets the best grades, the best jobs and all that sort of stuff. I just want my child to be happy. I want him to do his best and trust God in the rest, but I'm not going to bully him.

Leaders set high standards. Refuse to tolerate mediocrity or poor performance.

In the performance of a good action, we not only benefit ourselves, but we confer a blessing upon others.

Look at Walter Huston in The Devil and Daniel Webster: It's an incredible performance.

I'm much more energetic now; you might say live performance is my mission.

Sometimes you change just to do something different, to improve the performance, lift the team.

'The Mary Tyler Moore Show' was the best television, the best cast, the best-written television show ever.

When you really believe that you are worthy of the best, that you deserve the best & that there is enough of the best for you to have plenty, there will be no need for you to hold on to what you have. Allow yourself to imagine what your life would be like if your hands and heart were to receive something better than what you are holding onto right now.

Please note that, at no point in the performance, does my hand leave the end of my arm.

The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.

The fans can accept a poor performance, but they won't take it when you choose not to put in the effort.

I don't speak English, so I'll just have to win the trust and confidence of the fans with my performance on the field.

In my short career, I tend not to repeat myself. I have no interest in redoing something. Sometimes that makes people angry, and maybe it's not the best thing for me commercially. But it's the best thing for me artistically, and it's the best thing for my heart.

Bridal is very much a performance - it is the one grand event in every woman's life.