Be able to resign. It will improve your value to the President and do wonders for your performance.

In the end, it’s about the chemistry between actors. That’s what makes the performance real.

There’s nothing like the feeling of a great performance—when you know it’s working.

So I won an Oscar. It’s amazing. I’ve got that for the rest of my life for a performance I am proud of. It nearly killed me. I am really proud of the film. That’s it, moving on.

I’m not a natural born performer.

I want to be a teacher, and I want to be a performer.

In business, you’re only as good as your last performance.

When my job isn’t performing in a WWE ring, my job is to get back performing in that ring. When I’m hurt, all I have to do all day is get strong and get better. I’m a very dedicated physical therapy patient, and that helps a lot.

In each profession, you need to feel passion for that in order to give it your best performance. Football is my passion.

I don’t think any actor can be happy with their performance. There’s always something you wish you would have done or said differently.

Every performance has provided a learning experience, and as we go, we keep fine-tuning the shows. If we decide to do a tour, we rehearse until we perfect. One thing that I do prior to every show is that we huddle the band and pray. We thank more than we ask.

When we get the final hardware, the performance is just going to skyrocket.

People need to take as much interest in other sports as they take in cricket, and that’s where we come across a vicious cycle of performance, sponsorship, recognition, jobs and TV visibility. It’s a typical chicken-and-egg story; each one is directly related to the other without an answer for what comes first.

I never produce a song – whether writing it, or making a beat, and give it a wack visual or wack performance. I’m like a trifecta.

Journalists ask me, ‘Why don’t you ever talk about sex in your performances?’ True, I don’t talk about sex – not in my personal life and not in my professional life. This is modesty.

I get nervous every time, for every single performance, before getting up on that stage

Sometimes when I see a bad performance and people still clap… I wonder if they’re clapping because they liked what they saw or because they’re happy it’s over?

When the audience enjoys your performance, you feel like a magician who is doing magic. It’s a great feeling!

When you get a chance to play, if you help them win a game, then the team will start believing that the player can also do this for the team. So building that confidence for yourself and the team is very important.

It is a very happy feeling that a legend like Rahul Dravid talks highly about me. But I can’t just sit back and be happy about it. I have to back it up with my performances.

If I am playing a game, I want to give my best, and that’s the only thing that helps me sleep peacefully at night.

I would be proud if I can score as many runs as Rahul Dravid by the time I retire and serve the country as long as he did.

I got some time off from international cricket so I could come back to India and reflect on what was not going right for me.

Having to play Test matches for a month and then switch to T20s in five days is not easy, but that’s the kind of challenge I love to face.

As players, we look to prepare, and if opportunity comes by, we want to do well, both for ourselves and for team.

You don’t want to get too high or too low based on your performances. It’s important to remain level-headed.

I am very self-critical and always will be. I think this makes me want to improve, always. But just because I’m self-critical and say what I thought of my performance in a game, it doesn’t mean I will bring myself down, ever.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

Of all the more theatrical rock performers, Freddie took it further than the rest… he took it over the edge..

I had one of the best days of my life. I spent the afternoon with my two kids and my ex-wife at Serendipity. Then I came to the theater, and you know, I think I did the play the best Ive ever done it.

Confidence… thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection, and on unselfish performance. Without them, it cannot live.

It was an amazing performance because it’s not easy to sit through a long rain delay and have the same intensity. It’s not easy to start and stop, and that’s what Matt did successfully. When you start and stop, it’s easy to bow out of the situation, but he didn’t do it. And he was rewarded for it.

In every organization, environment affects performance, and baseball clubhouses are no different, that’s why in addition to assisting the rest of the coaching staff on the field, Mark and Alyssa Nakken will focus on fostering a clubhouse culture that promotes high performance through, among other attributes, a deep sense of collaboration and team.

This team has done something the past two days that should go down in history as an incredible accomplishment. And what David Ortiz has done is miraculous. He’s carried us on his shoulders.

In my case, I take part in performance-oriented music and believe it is my call to show the audience something that both their eyes and ears can enjoy.

Honestly, I don’t think I’m exceptionally pretty or talented. But the advantage I have is that the performances I do can only be done by me.

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

Respect is the key determinant of high-performance leadership. how much people respect you determines how well they perform.

Leaders set high standards. refuse to tolerate mediocrity or poor performance.

What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.

A great song can come from anybody. A great performance can come from anybody. It doesn’t matter who you are, and that’s truly what I believe.

There is no substitute for personal integrity. It includes honor. It includes performance. It includes keeping one’s word. It includes doing what is right regardless of the circumstances.

Our modern coaching culture is not to put too much pressure on any one performance, to let an individual flourish over time.

You always want to quit while you are ahead. You don’t want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until you’re not performing at your best.

Movies were invented for Jimmy Cagney, and he was invented for the movies. A perfect match.

Artists have the ability 2 changes lives with a single per4mance.

It has been said, and only half in jest, that a tough, professionally led union is a great force for improving management performance. It forces the manager to think about what he is doing and to be able to explain his actions and behavior.

It is easier to raise the performance of one leader than it is to raise the performance of a whole mass.

To be a manager requires more than a title, a big office, and other outward symbols of rank. It requires competence and performance of a high order.

Follow these five decision steps when hiring someone: Understand the job, consider three to five people, study candidates performance records to find their strengths, talk to the candidates’ colleagues about them, and once hired, explain the assignment to the new employee.

Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the ‘naturals,’ the ones who somehow know how to teach.

It takes far more energy and work to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence.

The only real difference between one organization and another is the performance of its people.

What can I contribute that will significantly affect the performance and the results of the institution I serve?

A person can perform only from strength. One cannot build performance on weakness, let alone on something one cannot do at all.

The task of management is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.

Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves – their strengths, their values, and how they best perform.

It takes far less energy to move from first-rate performance to excellence than it does to move from incompetence to mediocrity.

You cannot build performance on weaknesses. You can build only on strengths.

Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to high sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

I knew credibility would come only in time and through earnest performances.

In fact, everything I do is about the conceptualizing and realization of a piece of work, whether it’s the recording or the performance side.

I want to say it to so many people, ‘why you have to be so serious?’ And I also want people to think ‘this kid has really gone crazy’ when they see my performance on the stage. Luckily, I am able to achieve all of these.

Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions.

Nothing is a greater obstacle to our progress in knowledge, than a bad performance of a celebrated author; because, before we instruct we must begin with undeceiving.

Under the attempt to perform the impossible, there sets a general disintegration

Love hard when there is love to be had. Because perfect guys don’t exist, but there’s always one guy that is perfect for you.

I don’t think, that you can always – you can ever – get your game to perfection, you know. Only if you’re Federer

I’m always going to judge somebody on their work ethic, and whether or not they made me feel something, or whether or not I felt they did a good job. To me, it’s important to try to block anything personal out and look at the performance, in any field.

I got into film acting because I wanted to be James Dean. We lost him at a very young age – he was only 24 – but I’m in my fifthies, so there’s only so many times you can act like James Dean. I had to find new ways of expressing myself that kept me fascinated with film performance.

I love art, I love music. I can listen to Stockhausen and a very experimental, avant-garde approach, and I can listen to Beethoven and have a more classical, traditional approach. Why not be able to do that with film performance?

Maleficent was always so elegant. She always was in control. And to play her was difficult. I worked on my voice a lot. She’s bigger than me. She’s on a different level of performance that I have never done.

Sometimes the little times you don’t think are anything while they’re happening turn out to be what marks a whole period of your life

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn’t.

That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured

The bottom line is, when it comes to an actor and his performance, whether nominated or not, it simply has to do with whether that character had enough resonance with the audience. You know, to the filmgoers. And that something that you can’t control.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know

I have learned from my experiences in this industry that there is absolutely no way to control people’s opinions on your performance in your movie. You go out there, promote your film and hope people like the work you did.

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

I was always the kid in school who tried to get attention, not necessarily the class clown, but I’d do little unexpected performances.

Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.

The best people need little supervision.

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless

I like to play the characters that are the center of attention and have an edge

You ever have a dream, that you, um, you had, uh, you could, you’ll do, you could do so, you, you’ll do, you could, you, you want, you want them to do you so much, you could do anything?

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

I was performing in New York and my friends started to call me Gaga, they said I was very theatrical and they said, ‘You’re Gaga’.

I’m driven by my passion for music

I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.

Equalising performance between teams runs completely counter to the idea of F1 and would be very unfair for us.

Manage the cause, not the result.

If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.

I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Improve quality, you automatically improve productivity.

Whether it’s a friendly match, or for points, or a final, or any game—I play the same. I’m always trying to be my best, first for my team, for myself, for the fans, and to try and win.

One time I didn’t leave my hotel room for four days, I was so stuck in my head. But now, with maturity and age, I’ve realized that winning isn’t everything. It’s very much about the journey, particularly in my sport. There are so many people on my team, and I’ve got to be conscious of them. So while winning is definitely the ultimate goal, the lessons learned when I don’t win only strengthen me.

Don’t discount yourself, no matter what you’re doing. Everyone has a unique perspective that they can bring to the world.

I feel like people are expecting me to fail; therefore, I expect myself to win.

Don’t let anyone tell you to change who you are.

I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that’s always existed.

Our roots are deep, and our branches reach for the sky.

Without the help of my teammates I would be nothing. I wouldn’t win titles, honors, nothing.

I want to be perceived as a guy who played his best in all facets, not just scoring. A guy who loved challenges.

I go out and do the best I can in each game, and I don’t think about the fouls other players will commit or whether I might be injured. It only harms you to worry about those things.

Heart is what separates the good from the great.

Be true to the game, because the game will be true to you. If you try to shortcut the game, then the game will shortcut you. If you put forth the effort, good things will be bestowed upon you. That’s truly about the game, and in some ways that’s about life too.

Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.

I’ve always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come.

You can’t improve what you don’t measure.