Quotes about Performance

I get very irate with actors when they talk about how distressing it all is. I mean, it's only acting. Please.

I think you get in a situation where once you start hearing the boos and hearing the radio stations talk and people on the outside begin to bring your name up of being benched, then you begin to lose focus, and now your play begins to fall and you begin to focus on other things.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

The fears that assault us are mostly simple anxieties about social skills, about intimacy, about likeableness, or about performance. We need not give emotional food or charge to these fears or become attached to them. We don't even have to shame ourselves for having these fears. Simply ask your fears, "What are you trying to teach me?" Some say that FEAR is merely an acronym for "False Evidence Appearing Real." From Everything Belongs, p. 143

Peter Drucker says, "Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right things.

poets are like baseball pitchers. both have their moments. the intervals are the tough things.

Religion: 'My identity is built on being a good person.' Gospel: 'My identity is not built on my record or my performance but on Christ's.'

Secularism and Religion are both all about your personal performance. The Gospel is the performance of another applied to you.

The duties of religion, sincerely and regularly performed, will always be sufficient to exalt the meanest and to exercise the highest understanding.

Respect is the key determinant of high performance leadership. How much people respect you determines how well they perform.

You cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with the way you see yourself.

Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.