Performance Quotes (1886 Quotes)

All growth drivers continued last year's strong performance.

If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.

To truly understand a person's overall ability, it is important to also look at performance in un-timed situations.

I am really pleased with Corey's performance. She did what she needed to do to get ready for next week. The pressure was off of her today and she could just focus on doing the dives that she was capable of without any consequence. That was a big thing in helping her be consistent today. She also added to her confidence heading into the NCAA Championships to be the 3-meter champion from this zone.

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Adequate sleep is associated with good health and performance, as well as fewer accidents -- an even more critical issue when children reach adolescence and need to be aware of the dangers of drowsy driving.

I think that losses are very difficult to handle. Everyone would say they want to win, but it is how they handle it when they don't win that matters. Our guys play with class, work hard and give an all-out effort. We have to continue to battle through this stretch and we will. I am really proud of Bryan's performance. He competed his heart out and we defended the field better behind him.

We spent all week talking about second-half intensity and performance. Our guys showed a lot of heart and guts to come back like we today. I'm proud of the way we played and how we stepped it up in the second half.

A persona like Slim Shady is artificial, you hide behind it. It takes great courage to tear yourself open, to give the sort of performance I wanted. He found it wearing.

As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught for a time in art colleges the idea of writing music in response to painting was not alien.

And a lot of times in slam poetry I feel like people are so worried about the performance that the words might not be as strong.

It's another great day for our nation, the Air Force and certainly for the Raptor industry team. Thousands of workers in 42 states throughout our nation can take great pride in the fact that we not only met the customer's requirements, but we exceeded these expectations and produced a revolutionary fighter aircraft for our country. The Raptor is the very first supersonic, stealth fighter that incorporates capabilities never before possible in one weapons system and in the words of the Air Force, achieves 'overwhelming' performance.

The outlook revision reflects the strengthening of the financial profile as pricing initiatives in the performance chemicals business and continued focus on cost reduction allowed OMNOVA to offset higher raw-material costs.

I'm very happy with the result but not very happy with the performance. We tried to attack and to press the Scottish team but we couldn't get the goals,

One thing we tried to do in our pay for performance plan was make it available not just to individual teachers but to schools where teachers work as a team to raise student performance.

This was hard earned. Cal Poly put on a great performance. They had 10 guys place and are sending seven to Nationals. We had to step it up in order to win, and thanks to Ryan Bader our 197-pounder, a three-time Pac-10 Champion and four-time NCAA qualifier for clinching it. Every point counted tonight.

I bought it for Nic. I just thought it was perfect for her and she's great in it. (It's) really a tour de force performance.

Prior Time Warner directors are going to be looking askance at recommendations coming from these five because they come in with the Icahn agenda. Their interest is in short-term price performance.

The shooters hated him because here was Buddy, no wrestling ability, yet he's in the main event and they're not. It all comes down to performance. Not a wrestler. A great show person. As far as real wrestling, forget it.

At the time of the AGM in November, we had pointed out that development expenditure in aerospace would affect the first-half performance.

At a company like Dell, it's a strategic variable. Their strategy is to have the best product at the best price. But in order to have this, the supply chain must be competitive. Everybody at Dell is trying to reduce costs, increase flexibility, reduce inventory and get their cash more quickly. All of these drive financial performance.

We are an inappropriate target for this type of proposal given that we pay for performance. You know that we have always managed this company for the benefit of our shareholders, and our results show that commitment.

It's a great scalp and it's a massive victory for the club. It was excellent European performance, full of patience, discipline and control. We deserve the plaudits we will get. These are very exciting times here. Roma are one of the best sides in Italy but we controlled the game and defended ever so well and we are always capable of scoring. It gives us a good platform for second leg and our away record has been very good, so we should go there with confidence.

The decline today was a disappointing end to the year. The weak performance was attributable to weak Asian stocks as well as profit-taking after recent gains.

That kind of performance is just not acceptable for Liverpool Football Club,

It's never easy, but you have to go by performance. Hannu played very well. Hannu has played at the minor league level and he's won big games there. He needs to get used to the NHL shooters. Even at practice, he's facing players like Murray and Samsonov. If we need to make a change going forward, we will.

Thornton's performance was nothing less than spectacular. We had no answer for him.

That's probably the best game I've coached in 20 years in terms of performance, the way the kids came through. Going down 10, that's the kind of team they are, right from the gut. They dug in. I'm really proud of them for coming away with a win like this.

It wasn't about the money and it wasn't about No. 600. It was a function of Sammy's expectation of his own performance. He didn't want to go out there and under-perform like he did last year because it was just too painful for him, and it's just something he doesn't want to go through again.

Fortunately we have another opportunity to go out and get a good taste in our mouth. They say you're only as good as your last performance, and we've got one more performance to be good.

We played pretty good. New London is not a bad team, and it shocks me that we beat them like that. They'd had some good wins this year, but we gave a really good performance.

If we are going back to a more traditional 1950s, 1960s style of economic activity, we are also going back to a '50s, '60s style of inflation performance,

Now we recognize we need to spend more time on driver-behavior safety programs. Driver performance is playing a far greater role in contributing to crashes.

The most memorable performance was my appearance in concert in Carnegie Hall. The first standup to do so.

Roger Cox, chief analyst with Gartner Dataquest, explains that you may not see double the performance with every application in a RAID system, but you should notice a boost with disk-intensive operations such as video editing. They've been proven to do well in situations where you need high streaming rates, ... They work very, very well with video.

I was still haunted by my last minute adjustment before qualifying. I am still trying to get the brakes all dialed in. I still couldn't come into the braking zones with authority until half way through the race. I caught back up and it was just a matter of 10 to 20 feet every braking zone because the Performance Friction Brakes were working well once it was dialed in.

When government controls information excessively, then Americans are effectively muzzled when it comes to the issues of government, performance or accountability.

We've had some things that have struck here and there. If you look at the way this is going to shake out, the points starting the Chase were so close for all 10 competitors and the performance of the cars are so close that this issue is being resolved by who has trouble.

The department is taking a cautious approach on this. At the end of this time period (March 6), we will evaluate the performance of RES and see if it is able to move up to the next step. If problems develop, we will rescind the authorization.

In my view, shares of Ford would probably become more attractive if it got down to say 22, 23 a share. Although, I would argue that as long as these investigations are continuing, they'll probably serve to put a lid on the stock price performance. Other stocks in the auto sector we are more positive on include General Motors ( GM Research , Estimates ). Also at GM, you've got a change in management -- you've got a significant outside shareholder developing in Carl Icahn, owning 30 percent in GM. There's just a lot of value to be realized in the group.

We are pleased with the performance in the quarter, with the return of sequential revenue growth and with the solid earnings results,

The adrenaline of a live performance is unlike anything in film or theater. I can see why it's so addictive.

Her performance was nearly perfect except for the beam, but that was her last routine and she got a little conservative.

He was a brilliant producer who made a fortune and, of course, lost every cent in hare-brained investments, ... And he was in love with the male ingnue in the theatrical troupe the only downside was the ingnue was, by this time, about 52, and he kept insisting on playing 18-year-olds. This guy insisted every season on doing two Shakespeare plays, and invariably somebody tried to murder him during the performance because, strangely enough, Shakespeare wasn't big in the mining camps.

The importance of performance per watt is obvious for things you carry along with you, such as laptops - you want higher performance and longer battery life. But increasingly it is essential for things beyond mobility.

I think for the future it's going to give us good measurements on the performance of everybody around the world. It's really tough to compare the money list, especially with the purses being different.

Obviously the performance wasn't too good. Just took me a little while to make the adjustments the first few innings. You know, I was just overthrowing, leaving the rubber a little too quick.

To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible.

You are going in one second the length of a football field. That means you brain is receiving information from your body what the car is doing physically, bumping, balance, performance.

The quarter was not as strong as it first appears. While the company did seem to address some of the issues it had, after the significant volatility it has had in performance, I'm not willing to say one good quarter is a trend.