Top 1200 Peak Performance Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Whether glam or deglam, performance is what everyone wants in a heroine.

O that our souls could scale a height like this, A mighty mountain swept o'er by the bleak Keen winds of heaven; and, standing on that peak Above the blinding clouds of prejudice, Would we could see all truly as it is; The calm eternal truth would keep us meek.

I have nothing against President McKinley whatsoever, but I would rather have this peak be called by the name it has gone by for centuries by Alaskans than a man who never set foot in our state. This is the tallest mountain in North America, and we deserve to have this Alaskan landmark bear an Alaskan name.

While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.

That is the sort of race which one really enjoys - to feel at one's peak on the day when it is necessary, and to be able to produce the pace at the very finish. It gives a thrill which compensates for months of training and toiling. But it is the sort of race that one wants only about once a season.

Performance of one's duties should be independent of public opinion.

The peak of a career can only last so long. You go up and you try to maintain it. But, it can only last so long and then you're going to go down.

Dance is like wine; it matures with every performance.

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

If my films do well or not, I am glad that the audiences appreciate my performance.

Giants in Their promises, but those obtained, weak pigmies In their performance.

The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.

To me travel is triple delight: anticipation, performance, and recollection.

You have to channel the interpretation and performance into 100 people. And with the audience, the critics.

MAMMOOTTY has presented an outstanding performance in film'New Delhi'

Ultimately, I want a peak experience in reading, and that is sometimes difficult to find in contemporary fiction. I'm not interested in books that are just clever and well executed; polish doesn't impress me, and I don't care about a merely capable sentence. Life is short; I want a confrontation with high art. I want soul.

It's a lot easier to say you're a comic than a performance artist.

My style of performance poetry came from the beatniks, Allen Ginsberg.

I may have given my best performance but what if the role gets edited?

Serena and I have done some great career planning, and we're playing really at the peak of our tennis right now. I think tennis has been a sport where people play this insane schedule from 14 years old, so of course at 26, it's over. We've really paced ourselves.

Classic cable TV may have hit its peak, but it's still a huge force, and the streaming apps of many cable networks still require you to authenticate that you're a paying cable customer every time you want to use a new such TV app.

If I had a bad performance in a particular leotard, I threw it in the trash.

The eating of burning brimstone is an entirely fake performance.

Negative feedback effected amplifier performance significantly.

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

Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms.

At 16, I went to Smith College in Massachusetts and that was right after the peak of the civil-rights movement and all the rest. It was an era when students were making demands and many black students were closer to the teachings of Malcolm X, or what they thought were his teachings.

'Fill Me In' went to number one at the same time Destiny's Child released 'Say My Name.' Having a number one over Destiny's Child at their peak was just madness to me.

When I was a small child, I began on small mountains. Now, as I am getting older, the small peaks are getting bigger. If I am lucky, some day I will end on a small peak.

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

There is a major problem of unsustainability of our environment, and we're seeing it in our natural resources, peak oil is probably upon us, and it can't be sustained. We're on an unsustainable path, and at this point in history we are responsible for that. We're going to have to change our ways. We're going to have to think through this problem.

Society is notoriously stupid in its failure to harness the wisdom of older women in everything from television to politics, family life to boardrooms, and here is one reminiscing with honesty and realism about women's particular challenge: to create our professional and financial structures in the same period as our peak fertility.

Pressure is a positive thing and it makes no difference on your performance if it is not there.

I rooted for the Milwaukee Brewers and its stars, Robin Yount and Paul Molitor. I went to a lot of games, including the World Series in 1982. The Brewers may have been a bad team for most of my life, but to have your team at its peak when you are thirteen years old is an experience I wish for every fan.

The intersection of psychology and business is typically seen as being as congested, stressful, and emotionally barren as a peak commute traffic day on the L.A. freeways. But, thankfully, we live in an era in which neuroscientists are teaching us about the malleability of our brain and the emotionally contagious nature of our workplaces.

A procession is a participants' journey, while a parade is a performance with an audience.

When you have a live performance, you're going to be pitchy here and there, unless you have perfect pitch.

I always want to improve, and I am never satisfied with my performance.

Your performance in the world is simply the result of the things you believe.

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

The greatest footballers take the sport into the world of art, of performance.

Simplicity, without which no human performance can arrive at perfection.

The miracle of the Atonement can make up for imperfections in our performance.

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

Typically, the performance has a story - a beginning, the crescendo and the end.

I think there are a lot of celebrities who put on a performance on camera.

When Spandau were at the peak, there was a lot of pressure on us as brothers that kind of saved the band for years. If there was ever a moment where the band might explode, it was left to me and Gary to go off and have the biggest argument - I remember having proper fist fights with him in the 80s - and that got rid of the tension.

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

One has to set high standards... I can never be happy with mediocre performance.

The effects of mescalin or LSD can be, in some respects, far more satisfying than those of alcohol. To begin with, they last longer; they also leave behind no hangover, and leave the mental faculties clear and unimpaired. They stimulate the faculties and produce the ideal ground for a peak experience.

People care about performance and results above all else.

Mutual funds with superior performance records often falter.

The problem is, Mahadev is the Supreme Being, the Ultimate God. I've already played the Supreme Power. After one climbs the Himalayan peak, one can only go down from there. Any thing I do, any God I play would be a climb-down.

Together we are stronger, our voices louder, and the synergy of our actions more powerful. Together we can prevail on the Navy to put commonsense safeguards in place, like requiring its ships to avoid the most sensitive marine mammal habitats and to stop their training exercises during peak migrations.

There was nothing wrong with the performance, apart from throwing away the game.

The importance of music extends well beyond its performance.

Leo felt trapped. He’d once been stuck in a cave on top of Pikes Peak, surrounded by a pack of werewolves. Another time he’d been stuck in an abandoned factory with a family of evil Cyclopes. But this — standing in an open clearing with a dozen pretty girls — was much worse.

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

Dubai Airport will peak at a maximum of 100 million passengers a year, which would limit Emirate's growth, but the new Al Maktoum International with its capacity for another 120 million passengers will allow us to continue growing.

As far as performance, the roar of the crowd, the smell of the greasepaint no I don't feel that.