Top 1200 Poor Performance Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves.

That was always my experience-a poor boy in a rich town; a poor boy in a rich boy's school; a poor boy in a rich man's club at Princeton .... However, I have never been able to forgive the rich for being rich, and it has colored my entire life and works.

Zef is, you're poor, but you're fancy. You're poor, but you're sexy; you've got style.

Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition.

Whose fault is it if poor Ireland still continues poor?

There are 500,000 poor children in this state that did not choose to be poor, and we have to take care of them.

I understand that people might be poor if they don't have any work, but I don't accept that someone is poor if they've worked really hard.

I am not poor. Poor are those who desire many things.

The food industry profits from providing poor quality foods with poor nutritional value that people eat a lot of.

Poor planning or poor execution of plans is simply to let some force other than reason shape reality.

A sloppy performance in a photograph is as distressing as a sloppy performance in music.

My parents and I were all afraid of being poor - really poor.

Some runners judge performance by whether they won or lost. Others define success or failure by how fast they ran. Only you can judge your performance. Avoid letting others sit in judgment of you.

Poor countries are poor because they are wasting their resources.

Hatred, intolerance, poor hygienic conditions and violence all have roots in illiteracy, so we're trying to do something to help the poor and the needy.

They [Harvard academia] liked the poor, but didn't like the smell of the poor.

I have many enemies and they all think I'm being highfalutin calling it performance, but the word "reading" has a connotation of something academic with the lights on and you're going to get a lecture. I'm looking to blow my audiences away by giving a fine, dramatic performance and reminding them of why they love stories.

Since Day 1, we have maintained that ours is a Government dedicated to the poor and will continue to work dedicatedly for the welfare of the poor.

The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness; a non performance of that which is pretended to be performed, at the same time that one is giving loud pledges of performance. The balking of the intellect, is comedy and it announces itself in the pleasant spasms we call laughter.

Oh, how I would like a poor Church, and for the poor.

There is no country on earth that has done more for our own poor and for the poor around the world. We are not the ones that need to be targeted.

Not so great in England at the moment; in an online poll we came last, we actually came bottom of European countries for quality of life, because of things like the weather, obviously, late retirement, poor holiday, poor public services, poor health service; it's basically just a kind of grey, godless wilderness, full of cold pies and broken dreams.

Poor parenting may be reflected in poor sibling relationships.

We need to accept the principle that sometimes poor people will die just because they are poor.

Giving a poor person money keeps them poor.

The hardest thing for me was probably the different roles in the Performance Center because when you go to the Performance Center and become a WWE Superstar, you're on a different schedule. But in the indies or in Mexico, you have your time.

I'm not sticking up for white kids - I'm going to have a barrage of hate mail - but it's true. If you're poor, you're really poor.

If you feed the poor, you're a saint. If you ask why they're poor, you're a Communist.

To be poor, and to seem poor, is a certain method never to rise.

The oligarchic character of the modern English commonwealth does not rest, like many oligarchies, on the cruelty of the rich to the poor. It does not even rest on the kindness of the rich to the poor. It rests on the perennial and unfailing kindness of the poor to the rich.

In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.

Welfare now erodes work and family and thus keeps poor people poor. Accompanying welfare is an ideology - sustaining a whole system of federal and state bureaucracies - that also operates to destroy their faith. The ideology takes the form of false theories of discrimination and spurious claims of racism and sexism as the dominant forces in the lives of the poor.

I am not a sentimental or superstitious person, so I don't have any pre-performance rituals. I am a very practical woman. After a performance I am always hopeful that I will lure someone home for a ritual of a more personal nature.

I danced for a while, and I knew I could sing, so I just began singing in a praise band at church and doing musical theater and jazz vocal performance in school. One didn't really lead to another; I was just always interested in the performance arts.

Watching boxer Dingko Singh's performance at the Asian Games, Bangkok, where he won gold, was the defining moment. I was 15 and enjoyed sports more than anything else. Singh's performance changed my life and inspired me to follow boxing.

I play the leading lady in Arjun Rampal's latest production, 'Daddy'. It's a very bold, performance-oriented role, and the team had originally cast someone else. However, when Arjun saw my performance in 'Kaaka Muttai,' he roped me in.

Our legal system, including the police, is anti-Dalit and anti-poor. The death penalty laws' wrathful majesty, in blood-shot equality, deals the fatal blow on the poor not the rich, the pariah not the brahmin, the black not the white, the underdog not the top dog, the dissenter not the conformist. . . The law barks at all but bites only the poor, the powerless, the illiterate, the ignorant.

Every single performance of 'Fleabag,' I would learn so much from the audience reaction or how you could change it all the time, and I loved that sense that the performance is ever-growing and changing and could be affected by the audience.

Simply put, unsustainable debt is helping to keep too many poor countries and poor people in poverty.

From the very early stage when I started doing performance art in the '70s, the general attitude - not just me, but also my colleagues - was that there should not be any documentation, that the performance itself is artwork and there should be no documentation.

When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.

Questions like, "Is my suit OK?", or "Is my job performance satisfactory?", are impossible to think about in the absence of a suitable frame of reference. For an interview suit to serve its purpose, it must make you look good relative to other candidates for the job you want. For your job performance to be satisfactory, it must compare favorably with the performance of others who want the same promotion you do. As Charles Darwin saw clearly, much of life is graded on the curve, and conventional economic models completely ignore that fact.

Plants don't close from poor workmanship, but from poor management.

The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda.

Let us remember there is not a poor person in the United States who was not made poor by his own shortcomings.

Every time you hear that the majority of Democratic candidates go on stage, they say poor women of color need access to abortion. I was born to a poor woman of color. I was a poor woman of color when I gave birth to my children. Who's to say that their lives are worth any less than others?

I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words.

I lay my head on the railroad track, waitin' on the Double E. But the train don't run by here no more, poor, poor, pitiful me.

In a way, no one's harder on the poor than the poor themselves.

To be born poor is not our fault, but to die poor is crime

I was poor once, I didn't like it, I don't want to be poor again.

I'm interested in doing anything and everything that I can to squeeze the creativity out of my brain. I guess I'm kind of a performance rat, that's what I want to do, I love being on stage if I'm not on a set. I just love putting creativity into a performance.

The poor are an especially important resource for innovation when they have the bravery and pluck to get out of the poor places in which they're living.

What I love about analogue is it really forces you to go for a performance. I hear these young bands play perfect and they've been manipulated so much that there's not much personality to them. It's taken away some of the rawness and immediacy you get from a human performance.

Poor but happy is not a phrase invented by a poor person.

It's always about wanting to one-up myself from the day before. There's never an absolute 100% perfect performance, but going out and striving for that perfect performance is what keeps me going.

If you were born poor, it's not your fault. But if you die poor it is.

If you look at my life, I wasn't just poor; I was rich and poor.

There's a difference between expanding someone's potential and expanding their actual performance. Performance may measure other things, whether one's culture supports education, other socio-economic factors.

America's vast population of working poor can only get so poor before even Walmart is out of reach.