Stupendous Performance Quotes

When rewards ignore individual performance, the incentive to strive for excellence is lost. ~ Frank Sonnenberg

My take is that acting is acting. A performance is a performance. With performance capture, if you don't get the performance on the day, you can't enhance the performance. ~ Andy Serkis

Once you recognize that all documentaries are performance, it's not a matter of 'if' they should be performance. They are performance, and they are performance precisely where people are playing themselves. ~ Joshua Oppenheimer

The real purpose of performance indicator is to provide business insight and monitor the progress and performance. ~ Pearl Zhu

Corporation performance Management is all about managing performance by that data (KPIs) which really matters. ~ Pearl Zhu

Hint: money flows into most funds after good performance, and goes out when bad performance follows. ~ John C. Bogle

Number does not necessarily guarantee performance.
For I have seen a team of 8 outperform a team of 80. ~ Awolumate Samuel

The best kind of performance review is no performance review ~ Aubrey Daniels

The First Law: Performance drives success,
but when performance can't be measured,
networks drive success. ~ Albert Laszlo Barabasi

As the manager sits before a performance, as the critics wait like hungry dogs to rip apart the performance, they all become entwined in the theatrics of it all. ~ Isabella Kruger

If everyone likes it, it's probably because it has been doing well. Most people seem to think that outstanding performance to dates presages outstanding future performance. Actually, it's more likely that outstanding future performance to date has borrowed from the future and thus presages subpar performance from her on out. ~ Howard Marks

When we deal in generalities, we shall never succeed. When we deal in specifics, we shall rarely have a failure. When performance is measured, performance improves. When performance is measured and reported, the rate of performance accelerates. ~ Thomas S. Monson

Eve: "What do you want?"
Nadine: "A man of amazing sexual prowess, great sensitivity, stupendous abs, and the face of an angel. Toss in a wicked sense of humor and stupendous wealth, who adores the very ground I walk on. Oh wait, you already have him. ~ J.D. Robb

I want to suggest performance as lived reality, the site of performance being located neither 'inside' nor 'outside,' but at a threshold, at the stage of one's skin. ~ Anais Duplan

Past performance really did seem to be the best indicator of future performance. ~ Maggie Stiefvater

How much we like ourselves governs our performance. ~ Brian Tracy

Due to a combination of dispositional characteristics and personal performance histories, functional performers typically expect positive performance outcomes, and dysfunctional performers typically expect negative performance outcomes. Over time, these beliefs become strongly held and difficult to change. In addition, these belief sets can become self-fulfilling because they affect how the performer interprets challenge or threat in performance situations (Sbrocco & Barlow, 1996). For ~ Frank Gardner

Speed masks accuracy ~ Derek Tate

Routledge Performance Practitioners is an innovative series of introductory handbooks on key figures in twentieth-century performance practice. Each volume focuses on a theater-maker whose practical and theoretical work has in some way transformed the way we understand theater and performance. ~ Karen K. Bradley

But for endurance athletes, doing so is a little different because macronutrient balance also has a major impact on training performance and many athletes do not consume enough carbohydrate in particular to maximize that performance. Any measure that boosts your training performance will also tend to make you leaner. ~ Velopress

I've realized that the only thing I'm interested in is the performance. If the performance is right, then I'm happy. You offer up the dialogue and then the performance comes around. ~ Steven Knight

COURAGE WILL LEAD YOU TO YOUR HIGHEST PERFORMANCE AND YOUR PERFORMANCE WILL LEAD YOU TOWARDS YOUR REAL ACHIEVEMENT. ~ Dax Bamania

Performance's only life is in the present. Performance cannot be saved, recorded, documented, or otherwise participate in the circulation of representations of representations: once it does so, it becomes something other than performance. ~ Peggy Phelan

A recording of a performance is a recording of a performance. It's not the performance. ~ Mark Morris

At the university level, introversion predicts academic performance better than cognitive ability. ~ Susan Cain

Bad money drives out good.' That means poor performance will take over if good performance isn't recognized. ~ Tom Clancy

I don't think I gave a good enough performance to be nominated for it. I thought I gave a fine performance, but those things are supposed to be about giving an extraordinary performance. ~ Paul Giamatti

There is a need to evaluate the performance of employees in a more objective and continuous way. ~ Pearl Zhu

Enterprise Performance Management is an overarching umbrella for other management disciplines. ~ Pearl Zhu

I loved it when my heart beat quickly and erratically. Yet I found this performance, which was deeply poetic, more enjoyable. ~ Raymond Radiguet

Most organizations fail to manage performance effectively because they fail to look into the system holistically. ~ Pearl Zhu

If you do performance and music, it's not performance as music. ~ Marina Abramovic

Rewards usually improve performance only at extremely simple - indeed, mindless - tasks, and even then they improve only quantitative performance. ~ Alfie Kohn

The use of KPIs is meant to improve and transform the organizational performance. ~ Pearl Zhu

Traditions that cease to evolve render themselves irrelevant or obsolete. And what's the problem with inventing new performance practices? Are customs being slandered? Do successful alternative diminish the value of traditional ones? *The argument that musicians must embrace conventional rituals is just as perilous as unilaterally rejecting them.* ~ David Cutler

Rested, Refreshed, and Ready to run, the three Rs of peak performance. ~ Hal Higdon

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

Chris Chandler is the best performance poet I have ever seen. ~ Utah Phillips

Flow can be described as the icing on the cake ~ Derek Tate

I have a company in the U.K., a performance-capture studio. We're looking to push the boundaries of performance-capture technology in film and video games, but also in live theater, using real-time performance capture with actors onstage, and combining that with holographic imagery. ~ Andy Serkis

Just because you're wearing a goofy hat doesn't make it performance art. ~ Kathleen Hanna

You should always leverage performance and potential, look at the overall success of the company for the long run. ~ Pearl Zhu

I just wish," she said, "that this magnificent, stupendous God of yours could give a fuck. ~ Michel Faber

In London the slaughter of the innocents goes on on a scale more stupendous than any before in the history of the world. And equally stupendous is the callousness of the people who believe in Christ, acknowledge God, and go to church regularly on Sunday. For the rest of the week they riot about on the rents and profits which come to them from the East End stained with the blood of the children. Also, at times, so peculiarly are they made, they will take half a million of these rents and profits and send it away to educate the black boys of the Soudan. ~ Jack London

number of ways things can happen is stupendous. The mind's potential lies beyond its own comprehension. ~ Robert Lanza

Performance Management is a holistic management discipline which needs to connect many relevant dots to involve development, enablement, and enhancement. ~ Pearl Zhu

Keep strategy management and performance management synchronized to accelerate digital transformation. ~ Pearl Zhu

All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art. ~ Jack Bowman

Most corporations have human-resources processes that involve discussions with your manager, performance evaluations, calibrations for performance and potential succession planning. ~ Denise Morrison

The past three decades have witnessed unprecedented growth in what researchers now term ultimate human performance. This is not the same as optimal human performance, and the difference is in the consequences. Optimal performance is about being your best; ultimate performance is about being your best when any mistake could kill. Both common sense and evolutionary biology tell us that progress under these "ultimate" conditions should be a laggard's game, but that's not exactly what the data suggests. ~ Steven Kotler

God gets the easiest performance reviews. ~ Daryl Gregory

Life is a performance. Earn an ovation. ~ James Pack

Over the long run, superior performance depends on superior learning. ~ Peter Senge

Conversation often becomes mere verbal performance and oral horseplay rather than fair-minded communication. ("Juicy rumours ") ~ Erik Pevernagie

The Second Law: Performance is bounded,
but success is unbounded. ~ Albert Laszlo Barabasi

Performance art is going to be the future. Plays on Broadway are so restricted. But performance art is like haikus, just one line thing. And it's more casual but more interesting. ~ Yoko Ono

Stage performance is obviously a much grander sort of depiction. The audience isn't right in your face as close as a camera lens gets. ~ Amanda Schull

A performance dashboard is a practical tool to improve management effectiveness and efficiency, not just a pretty retrospective picture in an annual report. ~ Pearl Zhu

Expected outcomes contribute to motivation independently of self-efficacy beliefs when outcomes are not completely controlled by quality of performance. This occurs when extraneous factors also affect outcomes, or outcomes are socially tied to a minimum level of performance so that some variations in quality of performance above and below the standard do not produce differential outcomes ~ Albert Bandura

Mindset impacts emotion, which alters biology, which increases performance. Thus, it seemed, by tinkering with mindset - using everything from physical to psychological to pharmacological interventions - one could significantly enhance performance. ~ Steven Kotler

Your earning ability is largely determined by the perception of excellence, quality, and value that others have of you and what you do. The market only pays excellent rewards for excellent performance. It pays average rewards for average performance, and it pays below average rewards or unemployment for below average performance. ~ Brian Tracy

Corporate performance management systems and processes are gradually moving away from a static, unidirectional, and time-bound avatar to a more dynamic, continuous, and interactive state. ~ Pearl Zhu

We assert that integrity (the condition of being whole and complete) is a necessary condition for workability, and that the resultant level of workability determines the available opportunity for performance. Hence, the way we treat integrity in our model provides an unambiguous and actionable access to superior performance (however one wishes to define performance). ~ Werner Erhard

The way the knowledge of the spectator is drawn upon in constructing the scene, through the stylized performance, ritual motifs and auditory address that arise from a host of Indian aesthetic and performance traditions. ~ Anonymous

Focus on performance. Outcome is going to happen. No stress about that. Focus on performance. ~ Dustin Poirier

It is impossible to produce superior performance unless you do something very different. ~ John Templeton

Metaphorically, if the enterprise is a vehicle, Enterprise Performance Management is like the gas pedal with speed scoreboard. ~ Pearl Zhu

I'm much more energetic now; you might say live performance is my mission. ~ John Fogerty

Sexualization is the performance of sexuality, the performance of sexiness. Girls are super good at that now. ~ Peggy Orenstein

Performance capture, for me, is finding the essence of a performance. ~ Andy Serkis

Having a team deliver standards and performance is much easier when they want to be there and want to be led by you. ~ Tony Curl

I love storytelling, you know, beyond anything. I love a great story beyond a great performance. Storytelling is about what we all do together and how we collaborate together. A performance can be a collaboration in ways, but oftentimes it's one individual thing. ~ Jake Gyllenhaal

Our teens are embedded in a culture driven by competition and perfectionism, where success is defined by status, performance and their appearance. ~ Auliq Ice

I've always thought if you watch the performance and you don't know about the person, then you only see the performance. ~ Janet McTeer

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. ~ Marina Abramovic

When we talk about my gender as though it were a performance, we let the audience - with all their expectations, prejudices, and presumptions - completely off the hook. - Scott Turner Schofield ~ Kate Bornstein

The magic behind every outstanding performance is always found in the smallest of details. ~ Gary Ryan

Any place you compromise in principle you will execute in performance. ~ Johnnie Dent Jr.

A scorecard assesses progress to strategic goals whereas a dashboard assesses performance to operational goals. ~ Pearl Zhu

[On Katharine Hepburn's stage performance:] She ran the whole gamut of emotions, from A to B. ~ Dorothy Parker

MAMMOOTTY has presented an outstanding performance in film'New Delhi' ~ Satyajit Ray

​Till mirrors were Invented, Face was not You, Not Even part of Your Performance. ~ Vineet Raj Kapoor

I don't view interviewing as much of a performance. My whole life is in essence a performance but singing and dancing for television is an entirely different thing. ~ Lady Gaga

When it comes to performance art, I am more interested in the failures then the so-called successes. I have never cared for entertaining anyone. ~ Vaginal Davis

If you can't bring yourself to applaud because the performance was lousy, then applaud because it's over. They tried. ~ Mark W. Boyer

The nutshell version is that you need to think about the employee mindsets, behaviors, knowledge, and expertise that are potentially linked to the performance outcomes of interest. ~ Pearl Zhu

I started using film as part of live theatre performance - what used to be called performance art - and I became intrigued by film. ~ Mike Figgis

People who like their job will give it their best. Those who don't, show it by a poor performance. ~ Ellen J. Barrier

The goals of applying scoreboard are to translate the vision and strategic planning into operational goals; communicate strategy and link it to individual performance. ~ Pearl Zhu

Procrastination is the beginning of poor performance. ~ Ron Kaufman

Most people move actually into high performance in a crisis because that creates the kind of focus that creates high performance. ~ David Allen

Three languages - the video, the music and the live performance - are awesome to bring together. ~ Planningtorock

The performance of performance has developed to such an extent in recent years that it challenges the music itself and will soon threaten it with relegation. ~ Igor Stravinsky

Our limits are governed by flow's ability to amplify performance as much as by imagination's ability to dream up that performance. ~ Steven Kotler

The business management is, in essence, the decision management and performance management continuum. ~ Pearl Zhu

Does the real thing ever have the perfection of a stage performance? ~ Agatha Christie

By putting others first the Serving Leader is able to catalyze the creation of high- performance teams. ~ Ken Jennings

Reading is performance. The reader
the child under the blanket with a flashlight, the woman at the kitchen table, the man at the library desk
performs the work. The performance is silent. The readers hear the sounds of the words and the beat of the sentences only in their inner ear. Silent drummers on noiseless drums. An amazing performance in an amazing theater. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin

If you are not moved by the character, no amount of CGI will give you a performance that is emotionally engaging or devastating - what a live-action performance does. ~ Andy Serkis

Research has found that interviews are less predictive of job performance than work samples, job-knowledge tests, and peer ratings of past job performance. Even a simple intelligence test is substantially more predictive than an interview. ~ Chip Heath