Operational effectiveness and strategy are both essential to superior performance. — Michael Porter Copy Share Image
Even noteworthy performance attainments do not necessarily boost perceived self-efficacy — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
That's a wonderful thing, because one of the primary qualities of a good performance is honesty. — Roberta Flack Copy Share Image
When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance it becomes literature. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Praising children’s intelligence harms their motivation and it harms their performance. — Carol S. Dweck Copy Share Image
The conception, composition, practice, and performance of a piece of music can blossom in a single moment. — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
When the audience enjoys your performance, you feel like a magician who is doing magic. It's a great feeling! — Kailash Kher Copy Share Image
I am thrilled yet overwhelmed. There are so many great women athletes, some incredible performances. — Nancy Greene Copy Share Image
You can make an interesting character in a small portion of a movie, for a character that doesn't have that much on… — Joel Kinnaman Copy Share Image
From their maneuvers and their terrific speed I am certain their flight performance was greater than any aircraft known today. — Frank Herman Schofield Copy Share Image
I suppose it's unfair, tricks of argument that leave wounds, but with this sort of thing that (C.S.) Lewis does, what I… — Joy Davidman Copy Share Image
I used to be a street performer, and performances on Venice Beach, it's like playing the Apollo: They let you know if… — Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa Copy Share Image
I would be terribly disappointed if anything would get in the way of my being cast in something, or if performances were… — Trevor Nunn Copy Share Image
I am firmly convinced that you shouldn't necessarily emphasize hedonism, especially at the beginning of a career, but should instead focus entirely… — Oliver Kahn Copy Share Image
Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one's actions. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
It's hard to be strong and be weak at the same time. So I spent a lot of time sitting still. Sitting… — Lady Gaga 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
Dave Rocha is a mature and eminently musical improviser. His sumptuous tone and cafefully chosen notes embody real musical thought. His performance… — Frank Hanny Copy Share Image
The presidents poking fun at himself over what goes down. I thought it was a good-natured performance. It made him look good.… — Brit Hume Copy Share Image
Emily Kendal Frey's The Grief Performance is a book that condenses a journey of finding and re-finding loss into beautiful packages. The… — Dorothea Lasky Copy Share Image
James Gandolfini was a genius. Anyone who saw him even in the smallest of his performances knows that. He is one of… — David Chase Copy Share Image
I've always felt it's the directors purview to say what; it's the actor's purview to say how. It's not good for an… — William H. Macy Copy Share Image
And writing comedy and it really taught me how to kind of like craft jokes, it sounds like weird but really focus… — Nicholas Stoller Copy Share Image
The emotional elevation of the film is due in no small measure to the extraordinarily engaging performances of Anne Bancroft as the… — Andrew Sarris Copy Share Image
In the circle where I was raised, I knew of no one knowledgeable in the visual arts, no one who regularly attended… — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
Instead, over the past thirty years, in the world of action and adventure sports, in situations where asses really were on the… — Steven Kotler Copy Share Image
At the Neighborhood Playhouse School of Theatre, Sanford Meisner said, 'When you go into the professional world, at a stock theatre somewhere,… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Within weeks of our premiere, it became obvious that Leonard [Nimoy] and the character of Spock were becoming something of a national… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
Faced with a new mutation in an organism, or a fundamental change in its living conditions, the biologist is frequently in no… — George Wald Copy Share Image
The bus ride to the arena... I slipped on my Discman and listened to some of my favourite music, all the while… — Josee Chouinard Copy Share Image
Overt intelligent performances are not clues to the workings of minds; they are those workings. Boswell described Johnson's mind when he described… — Gilbert Ryle Copy Share Image
Your worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God's grace. And your best days are never… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
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