Top 1200 Peak Performance Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Influences come from everywhere but when you are actually shooting you work primarily by instinct. But what is instinct? It is a lifetime accumulation of influence: experience, knowledge, seeing and hearing. There is little time for reflection in taking a photograph. All your experiences come to a peak and you work on two levels: conscious and unconscious.

I think that there's only one nationality and one language in the sport, and you call it performance.

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

America's peak years of indigenous innovation ran from the 1820s to the 1960s. There were a few financial panics and two depressions, to be sure. But in this period, a frenzy of creative activity, economic competition and rapid growth in national income provided widening economic inclusion, rising wages for all, and engaging careers for most.

I preferred delivering my performance in person. I liked to be in control. You couldn't be in films.

I look at performance clothes as setting the mood for the whole show.

A lone peak of high point is a natural focal point in the landscape, something by which both travelers and local orient themselves. In the continuum of landscape, mountains are discontinuity -- culminating in high points, natural barriers, unearthly earth.

When we get the final hardware, the performance is just going to skyrocket.

I am amazed and thrilled and unbelievably proud about my team's performance.

All I can focus on is my performance, and that's going to help me be successful, no matter where I am.

I was fortunate enough to work at the peak of the great golden age of musicals. And then for awhile, I think they were being advanced in different ways. Andrew Lloyd-Webber brought the rock beat to musicals; people tried different things. The joy of musicals is that there is no perfect recipe; it is what you throw into it.

There is really nothing like seeing a live stage performance.

Performance ought to improve with experience, and pressure is an obstacle that the diligent can overcome.

A lot of different factors go into making your performance a good one.

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

We will give importance to performance while choosing officials.

I am a bit evangelical, I know, but performance-capture is still misunderstood.

Banks need to have large shareholders on the board that have a direct interest in their performance.

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

It's easy listening to a record, but a live performance is so personal and real.

The biggest was me running Lionhead at its peak. That was about 305 people. I'd say that was, for me as a creative, one of the most hellish times of my life. Normally running a team is like herding cats. This was like herding the entire African plains.

You have to always physicalize, when you do animation recording. Otherwise, you won't get the performance right.

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

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

Writing is a performance, like singing an aria or dancing a jig

I've been onstage once for one performance with four days' rehearsal.

That first peak is the best place to pause and look back, to see if you took the easiest route, to learn the lessons from the first climb. And it is the best place to examine the terrain ahead, to change your plans and goals, to take a deep breath and begin climbing again.

Performance art is really more of a command than an invitation.

The thing is, I don't just take roles because they're performance capture.

Politics with me isn't theater. It's performance art. Sometimes, for its own sake.

Strength and conditioning are the keys to good performance and longevity in gymnastics.

There is a point, of course, where a man must take the isolated peak and break with all his associates for clear principle; but until that time comes he must work, if he would be of use, with men as they are. As long as the good in them overbalances the evil, let him work with them for the best that can be obtained.

Our definition of a weakness is anything that gets in the way of excellent performance.

I enjoyed acting at school and went to an acting workshop for kids in Nottingham. It was twice a week after school and free to go to - ITV subsidised it. Every now and again, a casting director would turn up. 'Peak Practice' became a rite of passage for us. It was the first job I had.

In a perfect world global emissions would have peaked already. In a semi-perfect world we will peak on Dec. 31, 2020. The fact is, that's going to be difficult. We know that it's going to get more and more expensive the longer we delay.

Good directing is about getting the performance to be just what's right for the movie.

...the era of cheap oil and natural gas is coming to a crashing end, with global oil production projected to peak in 2010 and North American natural gas extraction rates already in decline. These events will have enormous implications for America's petroleum-dependent food system

I'm competing with myself first, as my aim is to improve my performance in every film.

When you're recording to tape, you usually just settle for what you have. There's not a lot of options to manipulate the performance.

I don't say that I never feel fear before a performance, but I have learned to channel it.

Growing up as a dancer, the stage is really where I love to be performance wise.

When you get performance slots for award shows - that's a big deal for me.

We are a global society, and one does not have to be from Germany to give a great performance of Beethoven.

Television is a performance, but apps actually reflect thought processes.

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

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

Following an extended boom in housing, the demand for homes began to weaken in mid-2005. By the middle of 2006, sales of both new and existing homes had fallen about 15 percent below their peak levels. Homebuilders responded to the fall in demand by sharply curtailing construction.

When I play, I open up. I'm in the heat of the performance and it's a healing thing. It's great!

That's what international football is all about - be able to bounce after a bad performance.

If I enjoy myself on the pitch, then I'm going to have a good performance.

I don't think it's good, culturally, to base all critical judgments on a single performance.

I do everything in the third person. Performance is about being someone else.

You reach peaks only to see there's another greater peak beyond it. Suddenly that one looks like it'd have a much better view. It's an endless cycle of going toward things that you think will provide you happiness. At the end of the day, right now, right here, wherever you are, you can make a choice to be present and happy and fulfilled.

I think I'm realising that careers for tennis players are very short. On the women's side now, players are starting to peak later on, but the average age is about 31, 32 when you finish playing, so I want to make the most of it while I'm young, fit, and healthy. I don't want to waste any time.

It is impossible to produce superior performance unless you do something very different.

Everything in my life was about performance when I was doing 'The Partridge Family.'

To some Christianity is an argument. To many it is a performance. To a few, it is experience.

That's a wonderful thing, because one of the primary qualities of a good performance is honesty.

The variable that really boosts your performance is the actors around you.

I am out there to put on the best performance I can for my sponsors and my team and my fans.