Performances Quotes · Page 28

The effects of outcome expectancies on performance motivation are partly governed by self-beliefs of efficacy

— Albert Bandura

Shutting people down creatively often doesn't get the best performance out of them.

— Seth Rogen

A single year's performance is of minor importance and, good or bad, should never be taken seriously.

— Warren Buffett

I don't think anyone could ever be wholly satisfied with their performance.

— Tom Hollander

Develop the winning edge; small differences in your performance can lead to large differences in your results.

— Brian Tracy

The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.

— Harrison Ford

The best kind of performance review is no performance review

— Aubrey Daniels

I can't let in the light.It will destroy my performance like light destroys film

— James Dean

In Ohio seasons are theatrical. Each one enters like a prima donna, convinced its performance is the reason the world has people…

— Toni Morrison

To write anything tolerable, the mind must be in a natural, proper disposition; provocatives, in that case, as well as in another,will…

— Lord Chesterfield

I know it wouldn't seem like I've had a lot of failure in my career, but there are things that I regard…

— Daniel Radcliffe

I've been really lucky to work with a lot of really great actors, so watching the films back, it's really important to…

— Juno Temple

As an economy measures performance in terms of the creation of money, people become a major source of inefficiency.

— David Korten

There is only one person with whom to compete and that is yourself. Keep aiming to surpass your own best performance and…

— Norman Vincent Peale

I'm most tired after I read, after I've just done a performance, but what I try to do is to fuel and…

— Sandra Cisneros

Without leisure there can be neither art nor science nor fine conversation, nor any ceremonious performance of the offices of love and…

— Lewis Mumford

If he be really and seriously seeking to live a good life, the first thing from which he will abstain will always…

— Leo Tolstoy

Gypsy [Rose Lee], who was called Louise as a kid, gave her first performances here with her sister [June Hovac], playing for…

— Karen Abbott

The Tonys are the once-a-year shot for all of these shows and artists who work so diligently every single performance but only…

— Neil Patrick Harris

My wife was an opera singer, you know. She bellowed her way through Wagner as a Valkyrie. I married her and made…

— Jean Anouilh

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

It has been said, and only half in jest, that a tough, professionally led union is a great force for improving management…

— Peter Drucker

Every apartment devoted to the circulation of the glass, may be regarded as a temple set apart for the performance of human…

— Thomas Lovell Beddoes

A multitude of uniform, unidentifiable houses, lined up inflexibly, at uniform distances, on uniform roads, in a treeless communal waste, inhabited by…

— Lewis Mumford

I don't think performance out of duty yields very much. Coercion is never the way to go.

— Michael Hersch

I think I avoid stepping into sentimentality by trying to be as truthful as possible with performances.

— Lasse Hallstrom

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

— John C. Bogle

Giants in Their promises, but those obtained, weak pigmies In their performance.

— Philip Massinger

You should be judged on your performances, not how long you've been around.

— Charles Leclerc

Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it.

— Van Morrison

Greatness is in the preparation, not in the performance.

— Jack Hyles

Investment performance doesn't determine real-life returns; investor behavior does.

— Nick Murray

If I had a bad performance in a particular leotard, I threw it in the trash.

— Mary Lou Retton

I can see it in even great actors' performances, when they're phoning it in.

— Winona Ryder

My focus is on a ring, and giving the best individual performance I can.

— Frank Thomas

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

— Tony Dungy

Evaluate every performance on: stage presence, concentration, delivery, material and lessons learned.

— Franklyn Ajaye

You're always going to be more judgmental about your own performance than anyone else.

— Ioan Gruffudd

The truth is, a director wins an Oscar for a writer's script and actors' performances.

— George Cukor

The soil says, don't bring me your need, bring me your seed.

— Jim Rohn