Performance Quotes (1886 Quotes)

Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it.

I'm not sure about the quality of the opposition but you had to tighten them up in the markets on the back of that performance.

Performance art can involve the audience with taste, smell and sounds not available with electronic media and not practical with conventional theater. This is due to the usually small audience.

When you have that many empty seats, there's no urgency to buy. You're dependent on team performance, which as much as we think we can control that, it's not always the case.

With a new management team in place, the review process will likely lead to more conservative revenue growth, and therefore (earnings) performance, in the near term.

I am confident that top-tier performance is attainable in the near term. The retail bank has improved its performance at a rate faster than expected. Our corporate and specialty finance business continues to grow rapidly and also is performing above plan; We are entering the 21st century on very strong ground.

Ian Bostridge is an enormously talented artist, hailed as one of the foremost interpreters of the Schubert repertoire today. We are thrilled to have the opportunity to present Mr. Bostridge and celebrated pianist Julius Drake in this uniquely intimate performance.

We delivered on our commitments in 2005. We are pleased with this performance, but clearly are not yet satisfied. We are focusing on a number of initiatives to enhance operating results and grow revenues in 2006 and beyond.

I hope they are happy with my performance, ... I think they have been feeling for a long time that they made the right choice.

Moses had a great pitching performance. He had great stuff all day long. We did hit it hard a few times, but when we did we hit it right at their guys and they made the plays.

This positions us to be competitive on a global scale and brings investors the benefit of greater liquidity, ... I think it's very appropriate that we analyze the performance of the market in the pre and post decimalization period, with special attention being given to making certain that public investors are treated as well in decimals as they have been in fractions for the past 208 years.

That's pretty cool making the 'Chase' for the second consecutive season, ... It wasn't the performance we wanted, but we got part of the main goal solved today. I look forward to those last ten races. We'll keep working on this Dodge and see how we can do.

I was very pleased with Jonathan's performance. He has had to wait patiently this season as we have a big squad but he has shown a great attitude and he certainly took his chance today.

Additionally, there are two more shopping days this year than last, which may have caused soft Black Friday weekend sales as people wait longer to shop. Nevertheless, after Friday's robust performance, these numbers are slightly weaker than industry analysts would have expected.

I thought he gave a solid performance. (Eisley) didn't feel confident offensively or shooting the ball but I don't think you can expect that.

Recently I've been listening to Mahler it's beautiful stuff. I just saw a performance of Mahler's Eighth Symphony on television, and it was awesome. The music was so gorgeous I wasn't just crying tears, I was sobbing.

The same things we've done the past couple of seasons. We've worked on the engine and clutch. We'll try and pick up the performance and consistency of the car and go back out there.

It was a very uncharacteristically poor performance. It was just a lot of little mistakes. Judging was tight and we just didn't perform well.

Calvin had another good performance. We've been playing well, but we still need to improve defensively.

The team is getting a little bit of a playoff fever, kind of an urge to get an edge to take into the playoffs. We still got to take care of some business in the regular season. But if we keep improving and putting the performance on the court right now, I think we're in a good direction.

Nothing we do is scripted or pre-fabricated - it's all about giving the audience an honest theatrical performance.

Ralph deserves an award for this performance. He's so relaxed, so natural. We're used to seeing Ralph Fiennes as cold, rational. Here he's lighter. He brings a humanity to the role. He's played a lot of edgy characters. Here he plays an average character.

Once you're in that mindset, when you're recording in a house as opposed to a clinical environment of a studio, you get beyond that, and you try to capture a performance more than sonic perfection, which is what we were interested in.

Once you get into the league its all about performance. But when youre a rookie, how you do in the combine and your individual workout can affect your draft status quite a bit.

Because they're so different, they're totally a reflection of society and where we are, but in performance they also connect us to each other and the audience. We're all different, we're all connected -- how do we unify How do we find a social awareness that's larger than us.

Why Because it's January and you can't worry about it. I don't think we had a bad performance, but I didn't think anybody stepped up and had a big performance.

As always he had a good performance. He comes along late in the race. He knows what he is doing.

When we'd suggested doing it, the Theatre Royal management had said, 'Nobody wants to see Waiting for Godot.' As it happened, every single ticket was booked for every single performance, and this confirmation that our judgment was right was sweet. Audiences came to us from all over the world. It was amazing.

The defence had another stellar performance. It was tough sledding out there just to operate the way we do normally. There's a lot of fond memories that come back from the crowd, which I thought was in this football game. It's not an easy place to ever win when you bring a team in to this place. It's humbling to come into this stadium and be on the other side. A lot of teams leave this locker-room dejected because they can't win here.

However we may pity the mother whose health and even life imperiled by the performance of her natural duty, there yet remains no sufficient reason for condoning the direct murder of the innocent.

Right now I want to tell our investors to calm down and give us more time to fully integrate to get better performance.

Services performance was encouraging especially given the glimmers of hope on the domestic demand side.

I wouldn't do nudity in films. For me, personally... To act with my clothes on is a performance; to act with my clothes off is a documentary.

It doesn't make the technology obsolete. The G5s are absolutely beautiful in terms of performance and design. They're still very viable and fully functional machines.

Its just a matter of arithmetic, ... Five officers is what we need to maintain a high level of performance. This is not a time to be going down in our ability to provide services.

We put in a good performance. We had a superb pack of forwards today,

it is not the one I wore onstage during the 'Baby One More Time' performance.'

The Chargers of the '60s were distinctly styled, conveying fast, powerful and affordable performance. That was a winning design formula then, and that's our design formula for 2006.

I am always more interested in performance and character depiction, and my direction says as much.

It has been a very good year for the Group ... we will continue to deliver sustainable profitable performance.

Yes, there is plenty of hard work for them in addition to that which they do when they appear, smiling and happy, when the curtain goes up. Giving a performance is the least of their worries.

You can't continue to make the same mistakes over and over again. There has to be a way to get across to the players that bad play or bad performance is unacceptable. You learn your craft in the Minor Leagues. At the big league level, we expect results.

The Black and White Ball was a work of performance art. It was a work that was every bit as important to Truman Capote as everything that he wrote.

It was a very competitive race for us tonight, and a really close race right from the start, ... We came away with a 6th-place finish and were only 3.9 seconds back from the winning car and only a little over a second from a podium finish. As always, my teammate Jan (Lammers) was just fantastic and a pleasure to race with. The team's performance was outstanding as well.

We were very interested in avoiding the fallacy that you can replicate on three completely different people the performance of the three other people.

I could not have asked for more from the Ascoli game. I was very happy with our victory and with my goals. I hadn't played for almost a month so I was very pleased with my performance.

Those efforts have failed as the performance deficiencies of computers based on Intel's Pentium 4 processors have become increasingly evident, ... Nevertheless, drastic price cuts and large, cash-backed marketing programs from Intel had the effect of driving down average selling prices on PC processors in the market segments where we compete directly.

I think it was a mistake. That doesn't make it right, but I don't think there was any intent to gain a performance advantage.

Fundamentally, we think AMD will have the performance advantage through most of this year. But later in the year and into 2007 it will start to get interesting as Intel tries to go head-to-head with AMD again.

The thing about search is that it's all about performance, not about the brand name. As long as it performs, people are going to buy it.