Performances Quotes - Page 33

• There is no finish line when it comes to system reliability and availability, and our efforts to improve performance never cease.

  Marc Benioff

  Availability, Effort, Reliability

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• The serial bully, who in my estimation accounts for about one person in thirty in society, is the single most important threat to the effectiveness of organisations, the profitability of industry, the performance of the economy, and the prosperity of society.

  Tim Field

  Bullying, Effectiveness, Important

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• Passion + production = performance.

  Robin Sharma

  Inspirational, Success, Passion

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• Drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things . . . nose-painting, sleep, and urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes; it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance.

  William Shakespeare

  Drinking, Sleep, Alcohol

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 3, l. [28]

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• The best way to show respect to your fellow athletes is to give the best performance you can.

  Cheng Fei

  Athlete, Gymnastics, Giving

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• The last thing that man will understand in nature is the performance of his brain.

  John Eccles

  Men, Brain, Lasts

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• From their maneuvers and their terrific speed I am certain their flight performance was greater than any aircraft known today.

  Frank Herman Schofield

  Military, Today, Flight

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• Once you become complacent and once you're happy with your performance or whatever it is, I don't think you'll get better as quickly.

  Blake Griffin

  Basketball, Thinking, Get Better

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• Proper prior planning prevents pitiful poor performance.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Planning, Poor

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• If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.

  Simon Rattle

  Music, Piano, Composer

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• Some coaches believed they could judge a player's performance simply by watching it. In this they were deeply mistaken. The naked eye was an inadequate tool for learning what you needed to know to evaluate baseball players and baseball games. Think about it. One absolutely cannot tell, by watching, the difference between a .300 hitter and a .275 hitter. The difference is one hit every two weeks. The difference between a good hitter and an average hitter is simply not visible-it is a matter of record

  Michael Lewis

  Baseball, Volleyball, Eye

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• To be successful in anything, a person must always want to be better, not only than your opponent but better than your last performance. Done correctly, being competitive is a wonderful way to always try to be a better person by learning from your mistakes and capitalizing on your successes.

  Hale Irwin

  Softball, Sports, Motivation

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• It's the old story. You might be able to fool your coaches, or your teammates, or your opponents. But, you can never fool yourself in anything. I believe that the more critical you are of your own performance- the higher standards you have-the better you become at what you do.

  Don Maynard

  Softball, Sports, Motivation

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• Set goals for things you can control. In my case, I can't control the marks from the judges, but I can control how I train every day, and I can control my performance.

  Claire Carver-Dias

  Softball, Sports, Motivation

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• School performance, public health, crime rates, clinical depression, tax compliance, philanthropy, race relations, community development, census returns, teen suicide, economic productivity, campaign finance, even simple human happiness - all are demonstrably affected by how (and whether) we connect with our family and friends and neighbours and co-workers.

  Robert D. Putnam

  Suicide, School, Simple

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• Both renunciation of action and the performance of action lead to Nirvana (Liberation); but these performance of action is superior to renunciation of action. The action of today becomes the destiny of tomorrow.

  Chinmayananda Saraswati

  Destiny, Today, Action

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• Public Schools too often fail because they are shielded from the very force that improves performance and sparks innovation in nearly every other human enterprise - competition.

  Bob Lutz

  School, Competition, Innovation

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• We are basically in the nicotine business. . . . Effective control of nicotine in our products should equate to a significant product performance and cost advantage.

  R. J. Reynolds

  Addiction, Cost, Significant

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• Companies have to nurture [creativity and motivation]-and have to do it by building a compassionate yet performance-driven corporate culture. In the knowledge economy the traditional soft people side of our business has become the new hard side.

  Gay Mitchell

  Motivation, Creativity, People

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• 'Concentrate on measuring performance and winning will take care of itself'. That is a brilliant excuse for coming second.

  Clive Woodward

  Volleyball, Winning, Care

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• Within weeks of our premiere, it became obvious that Leonard [Nimoy] and the character of Spock were becoming something of a national phenomenon. ... And to be unflatteringly frank, it bugged me. ... [Then, Gene Roddenberry] said to me the wisest thing he could possibly have uttered. He said, `Don't ever fear having good and popular people around you, because they can only enhance your own performance. The more you can play to these people, the better the show.'

  William Shatner

  Philosophical, Character, Play

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• Briggsy's performances down the years have been pure magic. If they could bottle his ability and sell if at drama schools they'd make a fortune.

  Lynne Perrie

  Drama, School, Years

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• Once they call you a Latin Lover, you're in real trouble. Women expect an Oscar performance in bed.

  Marcello Mastroianni

  Funny, Marriage, Sexy

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• We wanted guys who had been productive in college, and we made it a point to pick performance over potential.

  Tony Dungy

  Leadership, Football, College

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• Ageing destroys youth, sickness destroys health, degeneration of life destroys all excellent qualities and death destroys life. Even if you are a great runner, you cannot run away from death. you cannot stop death with your wealth, through your magic performances or recitation of mantras or even medicines. Therefore, it is wise to prepare for your death.

  Dalai Lama

  Death, Wise, Running

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