Best Performance Quotes:

I owe one thing to my public - the best performance I can give.

- Johnny Carson

source: Source: www.alex-haley.com

topic: Giving, Performances, Best Performance

The best performances, are those that can be performed once.

- Brandon Sanderson

topic: Performances, Best Performance

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

- Seth Rogen

source: "Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg Talk THIS IS THE END". Interview with Jason Gorber, screenanarchy.com. June 5, 2013.

topic: People, Performances, Best Performance

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

- John Wooden

source: "This Speech Was Given Before The #4Women4AllWomen Run" by Powdered Feet, womensrunning.competitor.com. January 25, 2017.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Favorite Sports, Inspiration And Motivation

Research indicates that workers have three prime needs: Interesting work, recognition for doing a good job, and being let in on things that are going on in the company.

- Zig Ziglar

topic: Appreciation, Jobs, Interesting, Motivate Employees, Employee Appreciation

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

source: Quoted in Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, Ind.), 7 June 1941 See Channing 1

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Leadership, Empowering Women, Improve Self Esteem

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.

- Vince Lombardi

source: President Robert Robbins' Installation Speech, president.arizona.edu. November 29, 2017.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Business, Striving For Perfection, Inspirational Football Coach

When people are financially invested, they want a return. When people are emotionally invested, they want to contribute.

- Simon Sinek

topic: People, Return, Want, Employee Engagement, Employee Inspirational

To win in the marketplace you must first win in the workplace.

- Douglas Conant

source: Twitter post from Oct 03, 2015

topic: Appreciation, Winning, Firsts, Top Management, Motivate Employees

Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers. You can buy a person's hand, but you can't buy his heart; his heart is where his enthusiasm is. You can buy his back, but you can't buy his brain. That's where his creativity is. Treat employees as volunteers just as you treat customers as volunteers, because that's what they are. They volunteer the best parts - their hearts and minds.

- Stephen Covey

topic: Creativity, Heart, Hands, Top Management, Motivate Employees

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

- Will Durant

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Daily Work, Top Management

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.

- Michael Jordan

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness, Improve Self Esteem, Just Believe In Yourself

How much we like ourselves governs our performance.

- Brian Tracy

topic: Performances, Best Performance

There are only three measurements that tell you nearly everything you need to know about your organization's overall performance: employee engagement, customer satisfaction, and cash flow...It goes without saying that no company, small or large, can win over the long run without energized employees who believe in the mission and understand how to achieve it...

- Jack Welch

topic: Running, Appreciation, Believe, Motivate Employees, Drive And Success

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

- Aristotle

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Job Satisfaction, Inspirational Hard Work

If you think and achieve as a team, the individual accolades will take care of themselves. Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.

- Michael Jordan

source: Michael Jordan (1994). “I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence”

topic: Teamwork, Winning, Thinking, Individual Goals, Individual Performance

It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

- Winston Churchill

topic: Strength, Success, Badass, Saying And Doing, Strategic Management

Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

- Vince Lombardi

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership, Sports Leadership, Leaders Motivational

Slumps are like a soft bed. They're easy to get into and hard to get out of.

- Johnny Bench

topic: Baseball, Bed, Slumps, Best Performance

If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.

- Vince Lombardi

topic: Motivational, Positive, Graduation, Inspirational High School Graduation, Inspiring Sales

If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Women, Years, Different, Best Performance

You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That's the mark of a true professional.

- Joe Paterno

topic: Motivational Sports, Determination, Nfl, Individual Performance, Sports Football

Your performance depends on your people. Select the best, train them and back them. When errors occur, give sharper guidance. If errors persist or if the fit feels wrong, help them move on. The country cannot afford amateur hour in the White House.

- Donald Rumsfeld

source: Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

topic: Country, Moving, Errors, Best House, Best Performance

It is hard to go beyond your public. If they are satisfied with cheap performance, you will not easily arrive at better. If they know what is good, and require it. you will aspire and burn until you achieve it. But from time to time, in history, men are born a whole age too soon.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.193

topic: Men, Effort, Age, Best Performance

Never mistake activity for achievement.

- John Wooden

topic: Inspirational, Basketball, Motivational Sports, Inspirational Achievement, Basketball Coaching

Make peace with the fear of defeat... Fear holds you back from putting forth your best performance.

- Brian Stann

topic: Mma, Defeat, Making Peace, Best Performance

There is only one person with whom to compete and that is yourself. Keep aiming to surpass your own best performance and ever strive to reach higher levels.

- Norman Vincent Peale

source: Norman Vincent Peale (2015). “Have a Great Day: Daily Affirmations for Positive Living”, p.24, Open Road Media

topic: Achievement, Levels, Strive, Best Performance

Truly what the Emmys are about are the machine behind them, and Oscars are the same way, where if you have a big enough machine behind you, you get nominated, because truly how many of the best performances actually win...not many.

- Christopher Judge

source: IGN Interview, www.ign.com. July 11, 2006.

topic: Winning, Machines, Oscars, Best Performance

Chris Chandler is the best performance poet I have ever seen.

- Utah Phillips

topic: Poet, Performances, Best Performance

I think Broadway is good for sharpening your skills. It's the best for really reaching the zenith of your talent. You go so far and reach the peak of it and you say, "Maybe this is the best performance I can do."

- Michael Jackson

topic: Thinking, Skills, Zenith, Best Performance, Sharpening

Emotion is more than just anger. When I am performing, I need emotion, but I need control, too. Emotion drives the best performance and is necessary, but it must be controlled. I believe Fedor [Emelianenko] does that. I do too. We may look different in how we do it, but we both do it.

- Mike Tyson

topic: Believe, Different, Needs, Best Performance

It had been drilled into us that when an audience pays to see a performance, it is entitled to the best performance you can give.Nothing in your personal life must interfere, neither fatigue, illness, nor anxiety--not even joy.

- Lillian Gish

source: Lillian Gish (1969). “The Movies, Mr. Grifith, and Me”

topic: Giving, Joy, Anxiety, Best Performance

If you're playing a fictional character, you can create a character, you can sort of take certain liberties. And when you're playing a real person who's actually standing there watching you, you know, it's - you do feel a weight. You know, you feel an obligation to not only be - to give the best performance that you can, but to make sure that you represent this person.

- Donnie Wahlberg

source: Source: movieweb.com

topic: Real, Character, Giving, Best Performance

I might feel like one day is one of my best performances ever and I may top that performance or I may just pace myself for the next 5 shows. Rather I'm giving them a good show it will always be a solid same show so it always depends on my energy.

- Lil Herb

source: Source: thesource.com

topic: Giving, One Day, Next, Best Performance

I have been doing this since I was nine years old. So whatever the role is, I am going to do the best I can do. The only thing I am concerned with is stepping on the stage in front of that camera and giving the best performance I know I can give, day in and day out as an actor.

- Darius McCrary

source: "The Darius McCrary Interview- The Young and the Restless". Interview with Michael Fairman, michaelfairmansoaps.com. December 22, 2009.

topic: Years, Giving, Roles, Best Performance

The best performance advice I have ever been given was to "Know where your light is, onstage."

- Vaginal Davis

topic: Light, Advice, Given, Best Performance

As an actor for hire, my job is to do some pre-production work for myself. Then my job is to show up and give the best performance I can.

- Matthew McConaughey

source: Source: www.crazedfanboy.com

topic: Jobs, Giving, Actors, Best Performance

I always have to pretend I'm somebody else to give the best performance. It kind of feels like I'm acting; it's definitely an exaggerated version of me. I'm a very normal, down-to-earth person, but I wanted the videos to be striking, so I have to lay it on a little bit.

- Jessie Ware

source: Source: pitchfork.com

topic: Giving, Acting, Normal, Best Performance

When I first started working on movies as a production assistant, we were shooting 65, 75, 85 days. I mean, granted some of those things were "Godzilla," "Deep Impact," and those kinds of things, but these days it's like 30-35 days or 40-45 days and you just feel like you're humping trying to get everything done. It's like "Move on, move on, move on!" That's not the way to get the best performances or the most interesting shots. You have to constantly balance schedule and quality of work. For me, that's the biggest thing.

- Michael Sucsy

topic: Moving, Mean, Impact, Deep Impact, Quality Work

I try to get the best performance an actor can give.

- Taylor Hackford

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Giving, Trying, Actors, Best Performance

Best performance of the year: Aston Villa v. Milan, September 1994

- Alec Guinness

source: Alec Guinness (2001). “A Commonplace Book”

topic: Years, Theatre, Villa, Milan, Best Performance

We figured you could download live shows for days, so we decided to go for a cream-of-the-crop approach, but not just take the best vocal or the best performances.

- Ben Harper

topic: Crops, Shows, Cream, Cream Of The Crop, Downloads

Stanley Kubrick made Shelly Duvall go crazy during 'The Shining.' It's like one of the best performances ever. Maybe he shouldn't have gone that far, but I love that movie.

- Jonah Hill

topic: Crazy, Shining, Gone, Stanley, Best Performance

My manager came up with the idea of taking a Pro Tool rig out on the road to record every night and I thought it was a great idea. I felt like it would be good to record over a certain period of time and then take the best performances of that collection of recordings. It appealed to me that it wasn't going to be from just one location.

- Josh Turner

topic: Night, Ideas, Location, Best Performance, Rigs

I feel like at the Olympics I gave the best performance of my life and I wasn't rewarded for that as an athlete. Yes, my fans and my mom were happy about it, but I didn't win that gold medal.

- Johnny Weir

topic: Mom, Athlete, Winning, Best Performance

I learned that I was either crazy in love with you, or putting on the best performance of my life.' -Nora (PG 263)

- Becca Fitzpatrick

topic: Crazy, Love You, Performances, Crazy Love, Best Performance

This year I spent two months in Australia, and I did all the training camps in London. It was a really hard winter because I want to give the best performance of my career at the Olympic Games! That is the only title I'm missing and I will do my best to take it!

- Peter Kauzer

topic: Athlete, Winter, Years, Best Performance, Training Camp

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

- Cheng Fei

topic: Athlete, Gymnastics, Giving, Show Respect, Best Performance

The best performance improvement is the transition from the nonworking state to the working state.

- John Ousterhout

topic: Transition, Improvement, States, Developers, Computer Software