I think casting is important because if you get the right actors cast then you appear to be a much better director than you are because then it goes very smoothly. But if you make a mistake in the casting and you want a performance that is somewhat different to what they want to do, it's going to be very difficult.
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We are excited about the earnings growth achieved in the first half of the year, but temper our enthusiasm for the second half purely because we face strong comparisons resulting from last year's solid performance.
Absolutely, without a doubt, ... What we do out there and what we've been doing for the last couple of years, you can look at other tandems and try to compare their numbers to ours. I think our numbers are better and just the performance that we bring to
It was a great offensive performance. We got some bats unleashed. Overall, I thought offensively we looked really good and got some key hits and put a lot of runs on the board. That's good for the pitcher that's for sure.
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These actions should be sufficient to maintain positive net liquidity in 2002, even with weaker earnings performance, ... But those aren't actions that can be relied on indefinitely. The future of the company relies on an earnings rebound.
The whole day I was just anxious. I kept hitting road blocks throughout the day. When it came time to do my performance, though, I was ready for it. After I gave it though, I felt relieved. It was an exciting program and the first thing I wanted was to know what everyone thought When it's your senior recital, it means you've been here for years and it's able to show how much you have learned.
If people shed a tear at any time during any performance that I do, it shouldn't be because they see me shedding a tear rather the things I am saying make them shed a tear.
What was supposed to be two hours a night turned into four hours. The audience was so excited, so inspired and mesmerized. I thought 'This is what it's all about. This is the true essence of what performance is supposed to be.' That's why I decided to do this tour,
I couldn't tell you what they are. It's not anything about a specific set of standards., I just want my team to be more consistent in its performance, that's all. ... There are just some areas we have to do better in.
Years ago, Fidelity told you not to buy because of a manager, but because Fidelity as a whole always turned to gold. Now you have to look at a manager's performance.
Elgin's game was an incredible performance, also. I don't think there's any comparison. Elgin did it without three-point lines. His game was attacking the hoop and hitting jumpers inside 20 feet. Kobe's range is unreal, and he does it his way.
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What you'll see is a much richer involvement of data (and) information coming to you on the Internet. This chip was designed to improve multimedia performance.
I was no great boxer, but I just loved to get out there and box. The most important thing I want the kids to learn is to have dedication to their performance. Believe in your skills, hone those skills and never give up are also what I hope these kids will take away from their boxing experience.
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All the dialogue on tape, and we'd play the tape in performance. Then I thought it'd be interesting if the actor's repeated what they heard on the tape, but at a slower speed, so we'd get a web of language.
Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious.
I think there will come a day when people will purchase drivers by ball performance and not the hype or numbers written on the club. Driver true-loft performance is a synergy of factors. Only the ball flight can tell you the true dynamic loft -- and that is a mixed function of measured loft, face angle, center of gravity, moment of inertia top to bottom and face roll.
Faithfulness in the performance of small duties gives us strength to adhere to difficult determinations that life will someday force us to make.
We are very pleased with both the local and national response to our opening-night performance.
The bigger trends look like they're improving (at Nortel). And now you've got a guy coming in here who's got a reputation for dramatically improving the cost structure and the performance of companies. Motorola's a vastly more complicated entity than Nortel and he did a great job for them.
When you're buying real growth and want real performance, you buy excellent management and good products and you diversify across industry sectors.
From the beginning, I thought he had a tremendous amount of talent. He is a guy who is versatile. He can strap on a guitar and give you an authentic musical performance.
Some of the things are in our control, some of the things are out of our control. The one thing we do have in our control is to try to keep the car running like it's running. The performance of the cars, the performance of the team, is there.
The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event.
When you set up to play, you made sure to give the performance of your life, ... Our first two records were done in a total of six weeks.
There seems to be a drop in performance at transition years, from fifth to sixth grade and eighth to ninth.
Assign jobs and make sure they're done and evaluate the performance. I think (Hall) wants to improve. I won't support his termination. He's had a bad year but he can change.
One of my side strange abilities is to hear a good song, no matter how it's being performed. Even if you get a bad performance, I can still hear that there's a good song.
We would do a tour into the elementary schools every year, and then we did another kind of program where upper level students were brought into E.J. Thomas for a performance. What the Children's Concert Society did was share the cost with us, so although we were just doing excerpts, we could do it in a full production sense with orchestra and costumes.
A performance is only as good as the audience you are playing to. A lot of times you feed off of the audience, and we always try to give them all we've got and sometimes you don't get a lot back, but we've never been dead whenever we've performed.
Tennis is more than just a sport. It's an art, like the ballet. Or like a performance in the theater. When I step on the court I feel like Anna Pavlova. Or like Adelina Patti. Or even like Sarah Bernhardt. I see the footlights in front of me. I hear the whisperings of the audience. I feel an icy shudder. Win or die Now or never It's the crisis of my life.
Jackie considered his resurrection, the world's best return performance.
I think we played really hard tonight. I thought our performance was like night and day from (Thursday) night.
The Puerto Rico tournament was about as poorly as we have played in a long time. We've had a good week of practice, and everyone understands that the performance at Puerto Rico is not up to our standards, and we need to get back to playing like we did the rest of the year.
There will be significant changes on both sides of the ball. That will unfold in the fall, and hopefully it will be obvious. The most important thing is it translates into performance.
You want to make sure you are protected against inflation, but that's a base line. A raise should be given for performance, not inflation.
Some say the church experience has lots of flash and very little depth, or in other words, a mile wide and an inch deep. But many (large churches) have small groups, and that's the key. You can't preach to a crowd of 1,400. The worship becomes a performance and the crowd sits there, very few people are active.
Over-seriousness is a warning sign for mediocrity and bureaucratic thinking. People who are seriously committed to mastery and high performance are secure enough to lighten up.
It's ironic to me, ... that as a boss, all of our leverage comes from our people, yet we very seldom focus on where those people are at, what their needs are and what it would take for them to excel in their performance.
The second version will look at how we can control the hardware using the standard ways of rebooting. We will also look at how we can make the integration of clusters into the applications, including workstation applications, even easier. We are also looking at performance monitoring tools for the cluster space as a whole, which is a big area for development.
I don't think if you bring back the All Blacks back into that Auckland side they'd make a massive difference in improving that Auckland performance, ... But those key individuals make a huge difference to us.
Still, this group won the most games in a season in 23 years. We came into this game winning 17 out of our last 19 games. We gave our community a lot to be proud of. We didn't make them proud with this performance, but one game isn't going to take anything away from their accomplishments this year. That (St. V-M) was a very good team.
It was a solid performance. It's always a test playing against a Spanish player on clay, and you could see the difference from yesterday (against Greg Rusedski).
We earned the right to play this game at home, and that's very important. Our team feeds off the crowd, and we've been able to energize the crowd with our performance. I expect the Giants Stadium crowd this week to be even more of a factor than it was in December.
I was disappointed with our performance. I thought we needed to use some extra reps on Sunday. That's all we did, it was only about 45 minutes. It wasn't too bad.
Utilities are pretty much business as usual. In the aggregate, we see the numbers bounce around some, but this will change. We're still looking at better-than-normal performance.
People ask me who he reminds me of. After this performance, he doesn't remind me of anybody.
Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.