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" Quotes and Sayings About performance

The highest levels of performance come to people who are centered, intuitive, creative, and reflective – people who know to see a problem as an opportunity.

Opportunity Level Problem Highest
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“The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.”

Business Value Any Leader
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“If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn’t be here. I guarantee you that.”

Performance Test Here Guarantee
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Giving a good performance, giving it all is what it's all about. I love to perform.

Performance About Love Giving
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Live performance has always been my thing. It’s my purpose to master and capture the moment every time I have you connected.

Performance Thing Moment Capture
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Champions do not become champions when they win an event, but in the hours, weeks, and months, and years they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance itself is merely a demonstration of their championship character.

Champions Hours Spend Preparing
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It seems like when I don't talk so much, people praise my performances more.
Like More Much People
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My identity is not based on performance; it's based on something that's pre-determined by someone else, and I don't even understand what that is because I'm an African who came to America.

African America Based Because
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I was always the kid in school who tried to get attention, not necessarily the class clown, but I'd do little unexpected performances.

Always Attention Class Class Clown
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I need guys who are dangerous to go out and have my best performance.

Best Dangerous Go Guys
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In performance, you don't always feel that sort of family bond right off the top. It sort of develops and grows over time.
Always Bond Develops Family
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I think it's healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care - that you work hard and want to give a great performance. You just have to channel that nervous energy into the show.

Care Channel Energy Give
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I do work a lot. I mean, most of my income, I would say, comes from live performances. And then you've got publishing, you've got record royalties.

Got Income Live Lot
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Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

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

Control Delivering Films Liked
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What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.

Anger Attitudes Change Deep
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My strong point, if I have a strong point, is performance. I always do more than I say. I always produce more than I promise.

Always More Performance Point
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We have to upgrade our dilapidated physical infrastructure. No single cause can be identified to explain Nigerian’s poor economic performance over the years than the power situation. It is a national shame that an economy of 180 million generates only 4,000MW, and distributes even less.

Power Shame Economy Single
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Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative.

Best Different First More
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An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.

Performance An Ounce Worth
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I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.

Difficult Element Exist Fact
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There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

There Better Adversity Every
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I don't enjoy public performances and being up on a stage. I don't enjoy the glamour. Like tonight, I am up on stage and my feet hurt.
Am Being Enjoy Feet
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You spend enough time on set as an actor and it's great when a director was at some point an actor or understands acting. They're able to finesse performances out of you that a lot directors can't get.

Able Acting Actor Director
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For me rappers and dancers are poets and artists and often times the most interesting performances are given by them.

Artists Dancers Given Interesting
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The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.

Actor Depends Effective Gives
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If you give a good performance, something that gets some feeling across to people, that's such a rare gift. It's underestimated at this point in history, when the music biz is inevitably turning into a kind of politics.

Across Feeling Gets Gift
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My general take on American music since 1969 is that it's just getting stiffer and people are getting more uptight - audience, performance, and palace guard.

American American Music Audience General
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A screen actor is compensated in the knowledge that millions will see his performance at one time, where only hundreds will see it on the stage.

Actor His Hundreds Knowledge
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You can't be perceived as 'the black actress who doesn't get the same kind of roles as the white actress.' You gotta run the same race. You gotta give the same quality of performances. You gotta have the same standard of excellence, even though people know that you're coming to the race in a deficit. That's just what life is about.

About Actress Black Coming
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People love events - they love performances, they love music - and I think Australians are great entertainers.

Australians Entertainers Events Great
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Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?

Desire Many Years Outlive
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I really don't do karaoke because it becomes a vocal performance rather than fun, like, 'Let's just sing this song and be silly.' It's not fun for me.

Because Becomes Fun Just
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She had a fierce pleasure in the idea of telling Margaret unwelcome truths, in the shape of performance of duty.

Fierce pleasure Idea Unwelcome truths Shape performance
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I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature.

Creature I Love Love Movies
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Productivity and efficiency can be achieved only step by step with sustained hard work, relentless attention to details and insistence on the highest standards of quality and performance.

Hard Work Quality Attention Efficiency
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It wasn't just about flashing lights and pinball machines blowing up and things like that. It was about using encores, bringing back the good songs and using techniques that I knew about from rock performance.

About Back Blowing Bringing
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If performance management were a movie, it will become less 'Gladiator' and more 'Moneyball.'

Become Gladiator Less Management
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You really, really, really have to love what you are going to do in theater because it is an unmerciful life. It's six days a week. It's eight performances a week. And that's doing the exact same thing over and over and over again.

Really Love Theater Unmerciful life
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One has to set high standards, I can never be happy with mediocre performance.

Set High standards Happy Mediocre performance
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I'm not a photographer, so I didn't get into F-stops or ND filters or background, foreground, cross-light, all that stuff. But I was interested in the camera and the lenses. That's the world that I'm moving in, in terms of acting and giving a performance.

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

Award Award Shows Big Big Deal
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The idea that you must treat actors a certain way in order to get a performance out of them kind of disturbs me, and it's disregarding what we do. Our job is to do our job.

Actor Certain CertainWay Get
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You can do 'Hamlet' while performing cartwheels... as long as the audience sees your eyes - you can make the performance real.

Audience Eyes Hamlet Long
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An actor should be judged by his performance only.

Actor His Judged Only
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There's a tendency, when you're directing yourself, not to give the performance as much care, because you feel like there's too much focus on yourself, or that all these people are just standing around setting everything up, waiting for you.

Around Because Care Directing
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All you owe the public is a good performance.

You owe Public Good performance
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The fact that I like to make characters doesn't mean that I like to watch my characters being made, my performance.

Make character Mean Watch Being made
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Employees promotion is for business purposes and are tied to performance. It is not whimsical or discretionary.

Employees promotion Business purposes Performance
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I am encouraged to do more by the successes of our last beneficiaries with their excellent performances in their various field of studies

Encouraged Successes Last beneficiaries Excellent performances
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