Better Performance Quotes

#1. Today, you get better performance from a Ford Focus than a Ferrari from the mid-70s. [The Focus] is just as fast and with better fuel economy. It's fun to see supercar technology trickle down to everyday cars.

Jay Leno

#2. If you want to have a better performance than the crowd, you must do things differently from the crowd.

John Templeton

#3. Historically, the mobile industry has been focused on the consumer, getting better performance and throughput to their devices.

Hans Vestberg

#4. getting better is not about just 'willing' better performance. It's about becoming someone who performs better, and performs differently.

Henry Cloud

#5. First, those who disagree with market efficiency simply assert that it stands to common sense that greater effort to get facts and greater acumen in analyzing those facts will pay off in better performance somehow measured. (By this logic, cure for cancer must have been found by 1955).

Paul Samuelson

#6. If the web can be evolved to include the missing APIs and have better performance, [developers] won't need to go beyond the web.

Brendan Eich

#7. Not only am I constantly seeking better performance but also to be a better person, to be respected.

Yani Tseng

#8. If you want better performance from the best, celebrate and reward it

Eric Schmidt

#9. There is a tendency in all of us to ask for better statistical performance. There is a tendency to impose quotas behind which usually lies imposition of pressure to achieve improved statistics.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#10. I feel like with every performance that I see, I get better because I've always thought - while I'm watching people perform - of what I would do.

Keith Stanfield

#11. The reason I moved to California the first time was to build the Cobra. I thought it was stupid to have a 1918 taxicab engine in what Europeans like to call a performance car when a little American V-8 could do the job better.

Carroll Shelby

#12. Successful organizations front-load accountability into their strategy. When front-loaded, accountability breeds better relationships, eliminates surprises, and vastly improves job satisfaction and performance.

Henry J. Evans

#13. Remind yourself every now and again that you can and will do better than your past & present performance.

Sarvesh Jain

#14. There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance next time.

Malcolm X

#15. Nobody has milked one performance better than me - and I'm damned proud of it.

Caitlyn Jenner

#16. Show business imposes its own strict temporality: no matter how many CDs or DVDs we own, it would still have been better to have been there, to have seen the living performers in the richness of their being and to have participated, however briefly, in the glory of their performance.

Larry McMurtry

#17. the innate need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world'.62 Numerous experiments have shown that not only do rewards reduce motivation, they actually hamper our performance. In

Raoul Martinez

#18. Performance is something we all strive to be better at. I'm no different than that. Who wants to look bad?

Kevin Garnett

#19. Compared with other recent presidents whose stumbles and failures have assaulted the national self-esteem, memories of Kennedy continue to give the country faith that its better days are ahead. That's been reason enough to discount his limitations and remain enamored of his presidential performance.

Robert Dallek

#20. The Grand Old Party's abiding affection for a 'bigger and better' presidency isn't entirely logical. After all, the Obama presidency commenced with an effort to reenact the Hundred Days. Yet President Obama's first-term economic performance itself was not 'big' but mediocre - tiny, even.

Amity Shlaes

#21. It was an extraterrestrial performance. It is very special to go below 4:50, but I believe I can do better.

Noureddine Morceli

#22. Whereas a good player might do something really good in a game, a great player might do something two or three times in a row. That's what great players do, but they also work incredibly hard off the field in terms of the extra effort they've put into making sure their own performance gets better.

Warren Gatland

#23. Oh, there's no such thing as my favorite performance. I can't sit here today and look back, and say: "Top Hat was better than Easter Parade or any of the others". I just don't look back, period. When I finish with a project, I say: "All right, that's that. What's next?"

Fred Astaire

#24. It is essential that we put an end to steroid abuse and set a better example for aspiring young athletes to follow, so that some day, when they make it in the All Star Game, it will be because of their own natural talents, and not because of a performance enhancing product.

Jim Sensenbrenner

#25. In any racing engine, the nearer you are to it disintegrating, the better it's performance will be

Keith Duckworth

#26. Difficult times disrupt your conventional ways of thinking and push you to forge better habits of thought, performance and being.

Robin S. Sharma

#27. Once you turn on the camera, making a movie is making a movie. I don't care if it's $9 million dollars or $50 million dollars. You have bigger toys, bigger set, actors who are better paid, but once you turn on the camera, it's director and performance, and I don't find a big difference.

Peter Landesman

#28. To be successful in anything, a person must always want to be better, not only than your opponent but better than your last performance. Done correctly, being competitive is a wonderful way to always try to be a better person by learning from your mistakes and capitalizing on your successes.

Hale Irwin

#29. A fantastic actor in a scene that's just closed off will be good. But when working with a director who knows little tricks - correct music, slowly pushing in - that stunning performance will somehow become even better. I've always seen it as a symbiotic relationship.

Matthew Gray Gubler

#30. A champion is someone who does not settle for that day's practice, that day's competition, that day's performance. They are always striving to be better. They don't live in the past.

Briana Scurry

#31. On the field, aggression can sometimes be a positive emotion. It boosts performance and can lift your game. But over the years, I have learnt that restrained aggression is a better animal. That way, you will conserve your energy and won't spend yourself quickly.

Virat Kohli

#32. I learned early on that it's heartbreaking to - there's the editor that comes in, and then they have to craft the movie together, and sometimes you give a whole performance that's just been cut up, and maybe it's better for it, absolutely, but you still have to deal with the loss of that.

Tavis Smiley

#33. The placebo effect is one of the most fascinating things in the whole of medicine. It's not just about taking a pill, and your performance and your pain getting better. It's about our beliefs and expectations. It's about the cultural meaning of a treatment.

Ben Goldacre

#34. Keep your app simple, keep your data simple, and keep your interactions with other systems simple, and you will stand a much better chance of achieving great performance for your app.

Anonymous

#35. Being around the energy of new people is wonderful. It only lifts my performance and makes it better.

Nicky Whelan

#36. I have a life beyond performance. I love it, and it probably is the better part of my life, but I do have another life.

Eric Burdon

#37. I get hired more then I get seen more. I get seen more then maybe celebrity and fame happens but at the end of the day there's no difference between my five dollar performance and my fifty million dollar performance. It's not going to make me a better father.

Tom Hardy

#38. No one will ever argue that someone could have played Helen Keller better than Patty Duke. It was an incredibly demanding role and I don't think anyone can argue that it was a false performance.

Richard Masur

#39. I'm not sure it's a better music world of appreciation and performance. I think the listener is a different guy, and listening is something he does in passing, with other stuff going on. There's less care and understanding of the relationship between the song and the listener.

Al Jarreau

#40. A lot of writers, because they don't understand actors, feel like, in order to be better at their performance, they have to change the words around a lot.

Giovanni Ribisi

#41. Most businesses change in character and quality over the years, sometimes for the better, perhaps more often for the worse. The investor need not watch his companies' performance like a hawk; but he should give it a good, hard look from time to time.

Benjamin Graham

#42. We are all actors, set on the stage of the world, as the curtains open we put on our best performance to this audience of life.

Anthony Liccione

#43. If you want better behavior from bankers, then make their financial incentives more like those in the hedge-fund world - where managers have 'skin in the game,' and their net worth is tied to their long-term performance.

David Ignatius

#44. If my performance touches someone or helps someone understand themselves a little better or gives them a laugh, I feel like I gave them something. I want to touch people's lives and bring them along with me.

Adelaide Kane

#45. At the university level, introversion predicts academic performance better than cognitive ability.

Susan Cain

#46. Rewards for improved performance work better than punishment of mistakes. This proposition is supported by much evidence from research on pigeons, rats, humans, and other animals.

Daniel Kahneman

#47. Now things have changed for the better. Our reforms end seniority and tenure so we can hire and fire based on merit and pay based on performance. That means we can put the best and the brightest in our classrooms - and we can keep them there.

Scott Walker

#48. Mexico has lost its leadership, and a lot of that has to do with its poor performance and the lack of better results in our country.

Enrique Pena Nieto

#49. The casting of 'Slumdog Millionaire' is a dream. Anil Kapoor, as the sleazy TV host, diamonds winking in his earlobes, has never been better; the quietly understated Irrfan Khan turns in another bravura performance as the police inspector whose questioning brings out Jamal's story.

Shashi Tharoor

#50. I think when you have a good warm up you feel good about your performance. You know that you've trained so mentally you're in a better state.

Keauna McLaughlin

#51. I've had the healthy and sobering experience of constantly working with music that is invariably better than any performance of it can be.

Andre Previn

#52. If I can send one person home after a performance feeling better than when they arrived, then I've done my job, and I sleep good at night.

Cyrus Chestnut

#53. 'Philomena' was even better than I had expected. I was so pleased to see the evil Irish nuns thoroughly exposed, and I thought Judi Dench gave a flawless performance, as did everybody else.

Claire Tomalin

#54. Once you become complacent and once you're happy with your performance or whatever it is, I don't think you'll get better as quickly.

Blake Griffin

#55. Statistically, athletes with solid family units have better stamina, more purpose, better mental health, and overall improved performance than athletes who are either divorced or unmarried.

Amy Harmon

#56. I'm not saying that more performance wouldn't be better - all these technologies are going to get better - that's the difference between first generation and second generation.

Trip Hawkins

#57. I make films from the heart. I want to concentrate on the job of doing great and honest performances, and I'm gonna get better with every performance of mine, with every film of mine.

John Abraham

#58. The secret to high performance and satisfaction is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world.

Daniel H. Pink

#59. Forgas and his colleagues have demonstrated diverse benefits of a sad mood. It can improve memory performance, reduce errors in judgment, make people slightly better at detecting deception in others, and foster more effective interpersonal strategies, such as increasing the politeness of requests.

Jonathan Rottenberg

#60. Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news.

John Le Carre

#61. If I'm focusing on playing and enjoying the song, then it always goes well. I get lost in the song, and the performance is so much better. If the focus becomes not making a mistake, then it just feels rigid to me.

Marketa Irglova

#62. Research conducted throughout the world shows gender balance in top positions contributes to improved competitiveness and better business performance.

Beth Brooke

#63. Self-control is a big deal in human performance. Getting better depends upon it. You cannot get better if it's not you who has to get better. You are the performer, period. You are the only thing you can control.

Henry Cloud

#64. The effort always remains that my new film outdoes my last in terms of performance and gets better box office success. Box office is the sole reason why I do films.

Emraan Hashmi

#65. I know what I want, and I know what needs to be done to make my performance better. So I do these little askings, about the lights and costumes. It's not the diva speaking. It's the artist who knows how it has to be done.

Anna Netrebko

#66. Learning" and "Performance" are key fundamental themes of better organizational governance.

Pearl Zhu

#67. From what I've been able to determine, many of our big stars are addicted to tobacco. They want to smoke in movies for the same reason I smoked as I wrote, which is that they think their performance is going to be better.

Joe Eszterhas

#68. If you're going to do something, strive to do it better than anyone else. Do it all the way. If you're going to half-ass it, why bother?

Ashly Lorenzana

#69. I think leather pants are just better than jeans onstage; they give the performance a nice attitude, and they are also shockingly comfortable. Comfort is key.

Jessie Baylin

#70. Do the best you can. But I want to emphasize that it be the very best. We are too prone to be satisfied with mediocre performance. We are capable of doing so much better.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#71. Columbia Business School even has a term for it now. They call it "honest overconfidence" and they have found that men on average rate their performance to be 30 percent better than it is.

Katty Kay

#72. I've done scenes in films that I felt like the performance was better in certain takes, but they couldn't use them because it didn't match what the person was doing when they came around and the camera was on them.

David Morse

#73. Seeing babies and little children smile or even just be inquisitive about a bottle cap isnpires me. Watching a great performance, particularly live or in the moment. My favorite actor at the moment is the three-time Tony Award-winning Mark Rylance. Makes me work to be better.

Graham Shiels

#74. ArcGIS Online is the complete hosted GIS in the cloud, supporting mapping and apps. Additions to this component have included smart mapping, formal metadata, better administration, and high-performance geocoding.

Jack Dangermond

#75. At first a golfer excuses a dismal performance by claiming bad lies. With experience, he covers up with better ones.

Lee P. Brown

#76. All that day she felt as if she were acting in a theatre with better actors than herself, and that her bad performance was spoiling the whole affair.

Leo Tolstoy

#77. It's the old story. You might be able to fool your coaches, or your teammates, or your opponents. But, you can never fool yourself in anything. I believe that the more critical you are of your own performance- the higher standards you have-the better you become at what you do.

Don Maynard

#78. I believe we can accelerate our acumen, performance and success by leveraging our associations and spending time with people better than us.

Robin S. Sharma

#79. 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

#80. It's not a proper feedback if it's given to flatter and/or belittle someone. True feedback should be given to empower someone perform better.

Assegid Habtewold

#81. Some nights you might go through an entire performance and not feel a thing, and the audience may have a much better time, 'cause if you're enjoying yourself on stage too much, they're having a terrible time because they can't hear you. And if you're a woman your mascara's running.

Anthony Hopkins

#82. Silence doesn't mean no activity; it means highly synchronized actions, much like the work of a well-tuned motor. More noise and vibration never assure better engine performance; indeed, quite the opposite.

Uday Mukerji

#83. I enjoyed Jonathan Franzen's 'Freedom.' Would I make that into a film? I think it's better suited to television. That would very much be a dialogue and performance piece, and it would take some very skilful direction - but not my kind of directing. But I thought it was a real literary work.

Peter Weir

#84. When you are surrounded by people who are much better than you, you have two choices: You can sh*t the bed, and the performance can go to hell. Or you can step up and rise to the occasion.

John Cena

#85. Everyone knows that England are a far better team than their World Cup performance suggests. It's vital that we play with confidence and take the strength and competition of the engage Super League in to the Four Nations.

Paul Sculthorpe

#86. People who focus on 'getting better' goals (also known as Personal Bests) as opposed to performance goals have a much better chance of success.

Jill Konrath

#87. The final product in a play is not just the written word. It's the production, the performance. The script is, of course, a very important piece; but it's only one element. Ultimately, yours is one of several voices. People can change your work in a play for better or worse.

Jesse Kellerman

#88. Monk's reasons for dancing during a performance: "I get tired sitting down at the piano! That way I can dig the rhythm better.

Thelonious Monk

#89. If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there - not because you've done a comedy performance but because you're talking about your father dying or having young children, things that touch your soul.

Roger McGough

#90. We call it the zigzag theory. You want to find something that zigs and something that zags and blend them together to get a better combined performance.

Louis Navellier

#91. There is no better education than rap battling in terms of performance. It makes you fearless.

Doc Brown