Quotes About Job Performance

#1. I'd never played a cop before, and this particular role with what she is going thru, especially during the first season, covering her alcoholism to her on the job performance, was a great opportunity for me as an actress.

Nancy McKeon

#2. Women are also more reluctant to apply for promotions even when deserved, often believing that good job performance will naturally lead to rewards.8

Sheryl Sandberg

#3. Research has found that interviews are less predictive of job performance than work samples, job-knowledge tests, and peer ratings of past job performance. Even a simple intelligence test is substantially more predictive than an interview.

Chip Heath

#4. Whether you job involves chasing criminals, crouching numbers, or wrestling with paperwork, learning how to recognize and rely on those hunches and gut feelings can dramatically improve your job performance.

Laurie Nadel

#5. Amazingly, their belief in their own ability was an even stronger predictor of job performance than the actual level of skill or training they had. More

Shawn Achor

#6. Given Mr. Obama's lack of experience as an executive, and his past performance in crises such as the oil spill, it is reasonable for those of us who support the effort in Afghanistan to worry that he will not be up to the job.

Jim Talent

#7. For me, the world is a stage, and we are all playing the character we have chosen to play on that stage. It is the job of the photographer to capture the drama of the performance.

Alix Smith

#8. I believe there's not a harder job in the world than being a teacher, and there isn't a job with a more direct impact on the performance of our students.

Michael Bennet

#9. 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

#10. When we perform at our highest level of potential, we are content. Because we have given I best in what we enjoy doing.

Ellen J. Barrier

#11. 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

#12. Unless an entire row of people got up in the middle of a performance and left the theater in disgust, I felt as though I hadn't done my job.

Jeremy Piven

#13. I don't call cut between the takes - it's my way to help the actor keep focused. As soon as you say 'cut' you have 10 people jumping on them and everybody's trying to do a great job, and they do, but sometimes they forget that the more important thing is the performance, creating the performance.

Michel Gondry

#14. We can quibble about what precise percentage of performance it accounts for, but no one can seriously question that smartness - the intellectual ability to do the job - is one of the primary determinants of whether someone succeeds or fails at managerial work.

Justin Menkes

#15. When we help others to perform at the highest level of their potential, we receive something of value; our character is strengthened.

Ellen J. Barrier

#16. The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

Thomas Hardy

#17. You may have also experienced the damaged relationships, job loss, poor school performance, substance use, and other negative outcomes that can result from having bipolar disorder. Perhaps

Ruth C. White

#18. It is the writer's job to make the play interesting. It is the actor's job to make the performance truthful.

David Mamet

#19. When you lack interest in the case the job will very likely lack skill and diligence in the performance.

Abraham Lincoln

#20. I wanted to get out in the world, have a great job, make my mark, and see how far I could go. And I wanted to make good on the philosophy my mother drilled into us with all the subtlety of a Lady Gaga performance. I got it loud and clear. I would need to succeed, and then I could possibly be happy.

Karen Finerman

#21. Living loved, we relax our expectations, our efforts, our strivings, our rules, our spine, our breath, our plans, our job descriptions and checklists; we step off the treadmill of the world and the treadmill of religious performance. We are not the authors of our redemption.

Sarah Bessey

#22. Then I started graduate school at UCLA. I got a part time research assistant job as a programmer on a project involving the use of one computer to measure the performance of another computer.

Jon Postel

#23. My job as a performer is to make sure that whatever happens in a performance lives in somebody else, that it's memorable ... If you forget tomorrow what you heard yesterday, there's really not much point in you having been there - or me, for that matter.

Yo-Yo Ma

#24. I'm never satisfied with my performance. I want to keep pushing myself. The great thing about being an actor is you're always learning. That's what excites me about the job and what continues to drive me.

Drew Fuller

#25. The ability of mental concentration, as well as the absolutely essential feeling of obligation to one's job, are here most often combined with a strict economy which calculates the possibility of high earnings, and a cool self-control and frugality which enormously increase performance.

Max Weber

#26. In a professional once engaged, the performance of the job comes first.

Garson Kanin

#27. In retirement, Smith reflected on his exceptional performance, saying simply, I never stopped trying to become qualified for the job.

James C. Collins

#28. My main regret about my years in football was keeping my mouth shut like a little mouse, not daring to speak out because I was told you left the managers to get on with the job and that the chairman must never interfere with the manager's decisions or the performance of his team.

Alan Sugar

#29. At the end of every stage performance, the audience all applaud me for doing my job, but I have friends who work in offices who don't get that.

Kenneth Branagh

#30. 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.

Nicolas Cage

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. You, your employer and your plan's investment managers fail to follow even the most basic rules of investing. You overtrade, chase performance, do not think long term. All of you - All Of You - have done a horrible job managing your retirement plans.

Barry Ritholtz

#34. One of the biggest challenges in my job is letting go of the movie once you go home at night, and knowing you can't do anything to your performance once you've laid it on film.

Amber Heard

#35. In acting, you are fulfilled if you give justice to your role ... if you are able to do a credible performance and touch the audience. Same with directing. If you are able to draw out the best from your actors, then you fulfill your job as a director.

Timothy Hutton

#36. Effective teamwork will not take the place of knowing how to do the job or how to manage the work. Poor teamwork, however, can prevent effective final performance. And it can also prevent team members from gaining satisfaction in being a member of a team and the organization.

Robert Bales

#37. 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

#38. If you have to do the work, it well.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#39. 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

#40. Every acting gig isn't the same, every writing job isn't the same, every live performance isn't the same - the challenge is the level of difficulty or ease, and that may vary.

Ricky Jay

#41. Is this still worth doing? And if it isn't, he gets rid of it so as to be able to concentrate on the few tasks that, if done with excellence, will really make a difference in the results of his own job and in the performance of his organization.

Peter F. Drucker

#42. The director's job is to know what emotional statement he wants a character to convey in his scene or his line, and to exercise taste and judgment in helping the actor give his best possible performance.

Stanley Kubrick

#43. The average player has the ball for only 53.4 seconds every game (according to Chris Carling, the English performance analyst at Lille in France) so any player's main job is to occupy the right positions for the other eighty-nine minutes and 6.6 seconds.

Simon Kuper

#44. You are what you think. Think enthusiasm and you'll be enthusiastic. To get high-quality work, be enthusiastic about the job you want done. Others will catch the enthusiasm you generate and you'll get first-class performance.

David J. Schwartz

#45. Focusing on strengths is the surest way to greater job satisfaction, team performance and organizational excellence.

Marcus Buckingham

#46. People who like their job will give it their best. Those who don't, show it by a poor performance.

Ellen J. Barrier

#47. Home gigs can be hard because it's an odd collision. More than anything, I feel self-conscious when my family are in the audience. I'm doing this job which is not quite acting - part of it is me, part performance. You're presenting a cartoon of yourself to people who know you as a line-drawing.

Dylan Moran

#48. Strangely, when I was a kid, my first acting job, at 5 years old, was a performance of 'The Three Little Pigs.' They cast me as the Big Bad Wolf.

William Zabka

#49. Your job becomes your pulpit, your performance becomes your platform, and the marketplace becomes your parish.

Bill Winston