Performance Quotes (1886 Quotes)

Our fixed cost structure remains a barrier to acceptable financial performance,

There's still hope for the league position. We must train and search for ways to improve our performance.

GBL is a substance that was never intended for human consumption because it can cause significant health problems including seizures and possibly even death. It continues to be sold to unsuspecting individuals who believe the drug will build muscles and improve physical performance. Hopefully this arrest will continue to shed light on how potentially damaging this controlled substance can be.

Those two types of pitchers complement each other well. Anytime you give up four hits with aluminum bats in any game is a pretty good pitching performance. Adam and Matt were outstanding today.

The Silver Dart is the DC-3 of the space industry. It has so many things going for it in terms of performance.

This phenomenal performance is a result of Microsoft's long-term commitment to investment in (research and development) and focus on developing compelling, innovative products that can emerge as leaders.

We've gone from a psychology a month and a half ago that the economy is growing too quickly, and the Fed is going to have to raise rates, to we're going to go towards a recession because the economy's slowing too quickly. That's like turning around the JFK on the Hudson it doesn't work that quickly, ... So you get fear coming into the market -- it just changes its nature. The fear was inflation. Now the fear is earnings. And it's going to end up somewhere in the middle. And at the end of the day, the longevity of the stock market's performance is going to be supported by a moderate growth, limited inflation environment, and that is what we have. It's not going to be robust growth -- 5.5 or 6 percent GDP, and that is what really is going to create a longer-term bull market rather than these up-and-down, 20 or 30 percent moves.

This is the performance of his life. If he does not hit his mark on the first take and get the jury to look past what they saw in the first half of the trial, he is going to spend the rest of his life as a ward of the federal government.

He had everything going. They were off balance. He cruised the whole way. It was a very impressive performance.

There is now a case for qualified optimism about the industry's financial performance.

The punter did good and for him to go out in the conditions and punt the way he did was good. He made a good tackle on the return. I'm sure his confidence is lifted after that performance. He's been in the NFL and it's a production business and he went out there and produced and helped us to win.

While our performance was at the high end of our previous guidance, we clearly did not perform to our potential, ... Our focus is on improving our operational execution and expense management to more fully benefit from our improving sales mix. We simply have to get more money to the bottom line.

It is the social obligation of management to make certain that its executives are functioning at peak performance, both physically and psychologically. To keep top men from spinning, management must see that executives should receive periodic medical checkups receive periodic psychological evaluations be given an adequate number of assistants of proper ability have their time pressures reduced through improved selling be given training in leadership.

The evidence indicates that trying to time the market doesn't work. We've done studies looking at the flow of funds vs. performance, and invariably people buy at a peak and don't buy when (a fund) is low.

Weighing about as much as an SUV and powered by two jet engines tiny enough to slip into the trunk of a car, VLJs have the aviation industry giddy with possibilities. Our fleet forecast projects that these manufacturers may not be able to build enough of these things fast enough, ... If they're anywhere near as advertised in terms of performance, it's going to be a stampede to buy them.

The company's excellent financial performance, including 16 consecutive quarters of revenue and profit growth, and the successful expansion of its retail and wholesale businesses, has not been reflected in our recent stock price performance.

This show will take you straight to the mountaintops with its old time charm. All the musicians are extremely talented and this will be a special performance.

When a performance isn't working, it's usually because the actor is trying to do something and they're not able to express their idea very well. It's a muddled expression.

Performance goals are individually established. We don't discuss those compensation issues.

While I was in Ann Arbor I heard that Boston was a good place to play acoustic music because they still had plenty of clubs. So I moved to Cambridge. I roomed with a Harvard student. I got an apartment the first day I got to town by going to Harvard housing, so I could get cheaper rates, 80 a month or something. I even went to some Harvard classes, just to sit in, because I enjoyed the performance of the professors. The teachers were always so theatrical at Harvard, intelligent show business people, that could keep your attention, and that I think, is the great advantage of Harvard. So I used to go for the show, no matter what subject it was. You could just drop in to a class and watch, it wouldn't matter if you went to the school. No one even asked. The show was good and you would learn something, but you wouldn't get any credit for it. I didn't need the credit.

We will try to specify some requirements for the Linux kernel that OSDL and others will be creating, so as to make sure it meets our requirements for performance, power consumption, things like that, that are really needed to make a complete, viable phone.

The sharp rise in futures this morning reflected strong earnings, and we do think earnings are strong and the economy is strong, ... It is a possible that if earnings keep coming in strong that there will be a reconnect with the markets and corporate performance.

If revenge becomes a factor, I'm afraid you lose sight of what it is that you're trying to square away, ... It's our performance that we need to square away, but all of us have lived with our lack of performance that day. You would hope that that serves as added incentive to do better.

If Smith was unsure whether his glass was half full or half empty then his counterpart was also struggling to figure it all out. I'm happy with the result but not the performance, ... We tried everything. We pressed and pressed so congratulations to the Italian team. We tried many ways to attack but Scotland played well.

The ultimate test of leadership is performance.

I think our offensive performance was absolutely horrible today. We had no intensity during warm-up, we didn't come here ready to play and we entered the game offensively with a very defensive mindset.

I performed adequately at school, but in comparison to my older brother, who set the record for the highest cumulative average for our high school, my performance was decidedly mediocre.

Everything is overshadowed by geopolitical events. Tech stocks appear resilient in their financial performance, yet we're struggling to attain that in the stock performance.

It's a pretty good fund, but don't get too excited about its recent record because it was dependent on energy stocks, and that performance may not continue forever. You don't necessarily need a utilities fund in your portfolio, but people buy them for yie

I haven't even rode that great this year. But I've been solid. I've stuck in the 40s and 50s in the reaction times and relied on the performance of the car.

The performance was good and we controlled the match.

Claude Rains was what we call an actor's actor. He was very involved with himself and his performance.

I thought it was a good doubles. Obviously it was very tight and the third set was crucial. After that they got a bit of momentum going into the fourth set but I can't fault the effort or the performance from Greg and Andy. I don't think you can criticize the guys when they give that much.

The bottom line is, the holiday sales performance is likely to be the weakest on record.

In one sense, we have now a much better picture about (how) various groups of students are doing, because this law has really forced us to peel back and look back at performance for various groups of students.

I am happy with our whole team's performance. We didn't do everything we had wanted to do today, but that's OK. We have never had every one of our athletes we have brought to the national meet gain All-American before. This is going to give us some momentum heading into the outdoor season.

Contrary to the misleading propaganda many of you have received over the past years, credible and reliable research show vouchers and tuition tax credit programs do nothing to improve public school performance overall, and in fact, often result in a decline in school and student performance.

Actors should be overheard, not listened to, and the audience is 50 percent of the performance.

It was the Alana Beard show tonight. Her performance was unbelievable. Our team goal is to get 10 steals per game, and Alana almost did that on her own. She was phenomenal.

Shea had a fantastic performance. I dont think this league will have as talented of a match-up inside with such skilled players for long time.

It was just a solid performance. It was his second start and he really gave us what we thought we'd get out of him.

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We will also conduct several critical payload operations, including switching on the SEVIRI imager and releasing two protective covers, one over the optics and the second covering the radiator. This all has to happen rather quickly, or else performance could be affected.

Before every performance, I think I am about to keel over.

It was an outstanding performance, but would like to see him get in done in the morning.

It's going to be a tough week. But we've been in this situation before. The thing we understand is (Monday) night will go for naught if we don't follow it up with a stellar performance. If we don't, we will not compete with this team.

This was a solid third quarter for Federated, propelled by strong sales and earnings in our department store segment and a level of performance in our direct-to-customer catalog and e-commerce businesses that was in line with what we had anticipated, ... We are entering the fourth quarter with our inventories in good shape, and we remain optimistic that it will be a good retail Christmas season.

In addition to the significant cost savings, this agreement provides added security, performance guarantees, disaster recovery services and increased functionality for public sector entities.

From the business point of view - not to overstate it - intellectual property is dead; long live intellectual process. Long live service; long live performance.

She was pretty productive. We expect this kind of performance out of her. Some days are better than others, but she has a pretty good scoring average right now.