Quotes about Performance

I want to be perceived as a guy who played his best in all facets, not just scoring. A guy who loved challenges.

Acting, in his view, was the greater and more important legal skill.

I hated the sight on TV of big, clumsy, lumbering heavyweights plodding, stalking each other like two Frankenstein monsters, clinging, slugging toe to toe. I knew I could do it better ... circle, dance, shuffle, hit and move ... make an art out of it.

I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round.

We should always keep our behavior or performance separate from our sense of self-worth.

To enjoy worship for its own sake, or simply out of a cultural appreciation of the 'performance' (whether of Byrd or heavy rock), would be like Moses coming upon the burning bush and deciding to cook his lunch on it.

You don't become a Christian by acting like one. You are not on a performance basis with God. He doesn't say, "Here are My standards, now you measure up." He knows you can't solve the problem of an old sinful self by simply improving your behavior. He must change your nature, give you an entirely new self—the life of Christ in you—which is the grace you need to measure up to His standards.

I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!

To live is to function. That is all there is in living.

Paul was like a musician who gives no thought to audience approval, if he can only catch a look of approval from his Conductor.

So if you're dealing with a nonperforming employee, particularly on issues related to work ethic, I suggest that you begin by asking three questions: Has this employee received a written job description? Have you published some sort of general, written policy that outlines requirements for practical work issues like starting time, lunch breaks, stopping times, making or receiving personal phone calls, etc.? Does this person understand how you like to receive reports?

On your very worst, most rebellious, and most faithless day, you can run into the holy presence of your heavenly Father and he will not turn you away. Your acceptance has not been, nor will it ever be, based on your performance.