You can prematurely optimize maintainability, flexibility, security, and robustness just like you can performance. — John Carmack Copy Share Image
I’ve learned that possibly the greatest detractor from high performance is fear: fear that you are not prepared, fear that you are… — Pete Carroll Copy Share Image
I don't care what the press is about a person that I'm working with. I care about how they come to work… — Sophia Bush Copy Share Image
I've never used performance-enhancing drugs of any kind, and I never will. I've never met or spoken with Tony Bosch or used… — Gio Gonzalez Copy Share Image
People come up to me as I leave the stage after a performance and tell me tey saw my mother onstage with… — Lorna Luft Copy Share Image
Documentation is misleading, because the performance is dead. So the very early works were not documented at all. — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
When you are in the studio, you don't have anybody to feed off of; meanwhile, when you are playing live, you interact… — Marina and the Diamonds Copy Share Image
I have discovered that I cannot enhance anybody's performance without getting them not only to live with the butterflies that come with… — John Eliot Copy Share Image
Part of what makes your performances more convincing is that your own image isn't getting in the way. And the more you… — Sam Riley Copy Share Image
Every concert pianist knows that the surest way to ruin a performance is to be aware of what the fingers are doing.… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
Nutrition is also a valuable component that can help athletes both protect themselves and improve performance. — Bill Toomey Copy Share Image
I like not to know, unless it's something that I need to know, specifically, for how I color a performance. — Matt Bomer Copy Share Image
Beware of Methodologies. They are a great way to bring everyone up to a dismal, but passable, level of performance, but at… — Joel Spolsky Copy Share Image
People who are great thinkers, in science or in art, people who are great performers, have to have that kind of capacity.… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
I did my acting performance in 'Roger Rabbit.' I think I did a voice-over also in 'Osmosis Jones' and I directed an… — Joel Silver Copy Share Image
It takes stamina to get up like an athlete every single night, seven to eight performances a week, 20 weeks in a… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
He who is ever brooding over result often loses nerve in the performance of his duty. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I want to be known for my performances and doing my craft well, not for funny stuff I post on Twitter or… — Billy Magnussen Copy Share Image
It was amazing how much rehearsal helped with the performance - it was almost a theatrical approach to filmmaking. — Felicity Jones Copy Share Image
I feel like at the Olympics I gave the best performance of my life and I wasn't rewarded for that as an… — Johnny Weir Copy Share Image
SIREN, n. One of several musical prodigies famous for a vain attempt to dissuade Odysseus from a life on the ocean wave.… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Comedy has to be so much cleaner than drama. You can't layer it in the way you can a dramatic performance. Which… — Grant Bowler Copy Share Image
Great men, Till they have gained their ends, are giants in Their promises, but, those obtained, weak pigmies In their performance. And… — Philip Massinger Copy Share Image
I'm attracted to roles that are unpredictable, and if I can get my hands on something like that, I'm thrilled. I like… — Timothy Olyphant Copy Share Image
