Quotes about Performance
Nothing ever stops at the quarterly win. There are four quarters to a year. Forty to a decade. Every one of them has to produce, exceed, and beat EXPECTATIONS.
— Jason Fried
Keeping a solid team together for a long time is a key to peak performance. People grow closer and more comfortable with each other, and consequently do even better work. Meanwhile, rookie teams make rookie mistakes.
— Jason Fried
There's nothing grimmer than the tragedy that wears a comic mask.
— Edith Wharton
The Wetheralls always went to church. They belonged to the vast group of human automata who go through life without neglecting to perform a single one of the gestures executed by the surrounding puppets.
— Edith Wharton
It's a heavy duty to try to do everything and please everybody. My job was to go out there and play the game of basketball as best I can and provide entertainment for everyone who wanted to watch basketball. Obviously, people may not agree with that; again, I can't live with what everyone's impression of what I should or what I shouldn't do.
— Michael Jordan
We really focus when we compete, not about the placement so much, just about us having our moment.
— Scott Moir
When you're given a platform, and you're allowed to perform, and someone's there to heighten you as opposed to dampen you, that's a nice feeling.
— Florence Pugh
I played Mary at the age of seven in my first nativity play, and I loved it - there is something so fascinating about embodying someone else.
— Florence Pugh
The role of Kaya, which I played in 'Dil Kabaddi,' is very close to my heart as I am also a fitness freak.
— Payal Rohatgi
The key thing with any football player is, what can he do when he gets on the field.
— Shaun Alexander
I went to Golden State and helped them get to the playoffs my first year there, and they haven't been to the playoffs in 13 years. I played in Charlotte... and I got them to the playoffs. So, every team I go to, I make them better.
— Stephen Jackson
I started training again four months after giving birth, and it was strange not to be fully in control - I'm so used to my body performing at a certain level, but it wasn't. I was like, 'Oh, man, can we go back to where we were, please?'
— Jessica Ennis-Hill