World Class Performance Quotes

#1. World-class performance comes by striving for a target just out of reach, but with a vivid awareness of how the gap might be breached. Over time, through constant repetition and deep concentration, the gap will disappear, only for a new target to be created, just out of reach once again.

Matthew Syed

#2. Flow tends to be the psychic signature of world-class performance and paradigm-shifting breakthroughs,

Steven Kotler

#3. Sidney Poitier and Sidney Lumet were instrumental in helping me get started as the first black composer to get name credit for movie scores.

Quincy Jones

#4. The level of sacrifice in the world of dancing is incredibly intense, that work ethic if nothing else - get up, go to class, rehearsal, performance, get up, go to class - that's your life, and it's like that for a finite time, usually.

Anne-Marie Duff

#5. In the doggie dictionary, under "bow wow" it says, "See "arf arf.""

George Carlin

#6. The confidence you need is belief in your potential. If you see world-class potential in yourself, you'll put in the effort. If you don't see the potential, you won't put in the effort and you'll wait for the performance, and the performance always follows the belief in self.

Denis Waitley

#7. Children of heroes have glory for breakfast.

William Stafford

#8. Memoir is about handing over you life to someone and saying, This is what I went through, this is who I am, and maybe you can learn something from it.

Jeannette Walls

#9. Only the prisoners who were hit. An undamaged

Jonas Jonasson

#10. Men may thus have several sorts of pleasures. The true pleasure is that for which they give up another.

Marcel Proust

#11. If a thousand men were not to pay their tax bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.

Henry David Thoreau

#12. Influence is like a savings account. The less you use it, the more you've got.

Andrew Young