Performance Quotes
This is your one and only precious life. Somebody’s going to decide how it’s going to be lived and that person had better be you.
A manager’s emotional commitment is worth more than their financial, intellectual and physical commitment combined.
Emotional commitment is a personal choice. Managers understand this even if their companies don’t.
The company may have captured their minds, their bodies and their pockets, but that doesn’t mean it’s captured their hearts.
Success means: I want to know the work I do means something to somebody and helps make the world, if not a Better place, not a worse one.
Your values are your essence: an undistorted mirror showing you at your pure, attractive best.
Careful now: even a financially rewarding, intellectually stimulating work environment isn’t the same as living your own values.
Values are the individual biases that allow you to decide which actions are true for you alone.
Success for Managers means: I want to be in healthy relationships. I want a real connection with people I spend so much time with.
Any expert will tell you that if you want emotionally committed relationships then people must be allowed to be true to who they are.
To integrate one’s experiences around a coherent and enduring sense of self lies at the core of creating a user’s guide to life.
Leaders are people who know exactly who they are. They know exactly where they want to go. They’re hell-bent on getting there.
Leaders make a lot of mistakes but they admit those mistakes to themselves and change because of them.
Managers know what they want most: to be allowed to achieve success by leveraging who they are, not by compromising it.
The high quality of a company’s customer experience rarely has anything to do with the high price of their product.
Companies should be the best possible place to practice fulfillment, to live out values and to realize deep connectivity and purpose.
Do you think your people struggle with being true to themselves? Do their values match up with their work?
Hard-core results come from igniting the massive power of emotional commitment. Are your people committed?
There is no such thing as time management. There is only the mindset that optimally manages the self and its actions.
If you can't bring yourself to applaud because the performance was lousy, then applaud because it's over. They tried.
Powerpoint presentations are a kind of theater, a kind of augmented stand-up. Too often it's a boring and tedious genre, and audiences are subjected to the bad as well as the good.
I think being directed and mentored by someone as inspirational as Paul Feig not only improves my performance but, as a whole, makes it what it is.
I come from a much freer kind of performance thing, where I rely on my own improv and my own sense of humor.
The form of computers has never been important, with speed and performance being the only things that mattered.
It's not new: In the '70s, Archie Bunker said terrible things on 'All in the Family, ' but it was all in Carroll O'Connor's performance. You saw lack of intelligence, and you laughed.
The real test of a musician is live performance. It's one thing to spend a long time learning how to play well in the studio, but to do it in front of people is what keeps me coming back to touring.
Technology has enormous potential to address educational needs more efficiently, help teachers improve their performance, and enrich and individualize student learning.
I can only control my own performance. If I do my best, then I can feel good at the end of the day.
I think the actors in 'Greystoke' were amazing. They had a really good performance coach called Peter Elliott who's, of his time, one of the greatest simian performance coaches for actors.
Mexico has lost its leadership, and a lot of that has to do with its poor performance and the lack of better results in our country.
I look at old performance videos now, and it's really funny - I thought I was such a gangster!
Porsche is a driver's car - a performance car. That was funny - here's this awesome car, but it's got no cup holders.
Performance art is the ultimate in creativity. Since it has so many possibilities at creativity, it's essence tends to become creativity.
A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.
Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.
When you think about things like power efficiency or performance or Internet connectivity as major technology areas where you have multiple investments, multiple products - security is like that.
One of the things that I've always thought I would like to do is to develop an environmental index. Then people can measure their own environmental performance on an index as they do in other ways.