Individual Performance Quotes

#1. In a way, writing is an incredible act of individualism, producing your language, and yet to use it from the heart of a crowd as opposed to as an individual performance is a conflicting thing. I do stand alone, and yet it's not about being an individual or being ambitious.

Arundhati Roy

#2. When rewards ignore individual performance, the incentive to strive for excellence is lost.

Frank Sonnenberg

#3. You can only elevate individual performance by elevating that of the entire system.

W. Edwards Deming

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

Frank Thomas

#5. The goals of applying scoreboard are to translate the vision and strategic planning into operational goals; communicate strategy and link it to individual performance.

Pearl Zhu

#6. When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Joe Paterno

#7. I don't attribute an actor's great success to their own individual performance when it's something as collaborative as a movie.

Jesse Eisenberg

#8. When I arrived at IBM, there were 'Team' signs all around. I asked, 'How do people get paid?' They told me, 'We pay people based on individual performance.'

Louis V. Gerstner Jr.

#9. There is a great amount of precision within each individual's technique and role in the play. When you put 22 of them out there, it can look chaotic but when you break down individual performance, it looks less so.

Brendan Daly

#10. I began to see new buildings, too, which were connected by futuristic walkways lit from beneath. Long, cool perspectives of modern architecture, rising phosphorescent and eerie from the rubble.

Donna Tartt

#11. The strangest thing of all for Milly was perhaps the uplifted assurance and indifference with which she could simply give back the particular bland stare that appeared in such cases to mark civilisation at its highest. It

Henry James

#12. Obviously, my life and my job in 2010 is very different from Peggy's experience in the 1960s. I exist in a world that enjoys more equality between men and women. But I don't take any of that into my performance. I just want to play the character as who she is as an individual - scene to scene.

Elisabeth Moss

#13. Especially the transcendental philosophy needs the leaven of humor to render it light and digestible.

Henry David Thoreau

#14. Enacted under President George W. Bush's administration with the promise to focus on individual student achievement and overall school performance, No Child Left Behind was heralded as groundbreaking. And in some ways, it was.

John Kline

#15. Any individual indicator can be a lead or lag indicator depending upon the context and explanatory model chosen.

Pearl Zhu

#16. A hedge fund manager whose clients demand monthly performance reports has different needs than any individual investors with a 20-year time horizon. The needs of that long-term investor differ markedly from someone who is retiring in three years.

Barry Ritholtz

#17. Wherever and whenever that piece is put on, it is April.

Willa Cather

#18. The complaint with me being on stage was always that I was slightly too naturalistic and not projecting enough. I've got quite a soft voice, so that didn't help.

Lucy Griffiths

#19. High achievers don't like mediocre people, mediocre people don't like high achievers.

Nick Saban

#20. best way to make a friend is to show interest in someone else without an agenda.

Jeff Goins

#21. We can extrapolate from the study that for the long term individual investor who maintains a consistent asset allocation and leans toward index funds, asset allocation determines about 100% of performance.

Roger G. Ibbotson

#22. I love storytelling, you know, beyond anything. I love a great story beyond a great performance. Storytelling is about what we all do together and how we collaborate together. A performance can be a collaboration in ways, but oftentimes it's one individual thing.

Jake Gyllenhaal

#23. A typical medical practice is like an old-fashioned business which keeps all of its records on paper. It can probably track down any individual transaction if it needs to, but it's basically helpless when it comes to overall measurements of performance. And that's the big problem.

Mitch Kapor

#24. Quite frankly, I didn't become an actor to become a movie star. I have never dreamed about being the most famous person on the planet. I just want to do really good work.

Anne Hathaway

#25. However incoherent a human existence may be, human unity is not bothered by it.

Charles Baudelaire

#26. Personal matters aren't really any of my business. I don't care who is sleeping with whom for example unless it is somehow affecting an individual's performance in the public arena

Terry Mosher

#27. To the people I forgot, you weren't on my mind for some reason and you probably don't deserve any thanks anyway.

Eminem

#28. People tend to like an athlete's performance, but if you don't get a feeling for the individual, you're not very emotive about them.

Daley Thompson

#29. things are always created twice: first in the workshop of the mind and then, and only then, in reality. I

Robin S. Sharma

#30. If you try to improve the performance of a system of people, machines, and procedures by setting numerical goals for the improvement of individual parts of the system, the system will defeat your efforts and you will pay a price where you least expect it.

Myron Tribus

#31. Jazz exemplifies artistic activity that is at once individual and communal, performance that is both repetitive and innovative, each participant sometimes providing background support and sometimes flying free.

Mary Catherine Bateson

#32. My individual power is limited. I want to use my high-profile way to wake people up to take action together to do good things. I can only awake them with my performance art and creativity.

Chen Guangbiao

#33. Law is for the society; love is for the individual. Law is how you behave with others; love is how you behave with yourself. Love is an inner flowering; law is an outward performance. Because you live with people you have to be lawful, but that is not enough - good, but not enough.

Rajneesh