Performance Quotes (1886 Quotes)

Viacom's fourth-quarter performance is indicative of a new vitality at the company and the major strides we have made in 1997.

I think that technology has both introduced new sounds but also allowed an increasingly painterly approach to recording music as you can now paint over what you've done and more and more refine an existing performance.

I tell them every time they get up on the blocks to use the opportunity and make every swim count. Whether we're up or down, we want to come up with our best performance.

Investors care about product quality to the extent that it definitively correlates with financial performance. The reality is, however, that it's very hard to draw a direct correlation between product quality -- maybe because it's so subjective -- and financial performance in the newspaper industry.

We came to an agreement that acknowledges what everybody wants - the player being rewarded for performance.

Despite the strong revenue growth and market momentum we have achieved over the last seven quarters, general market conditions and economic uncertainty adversely impacted our second quarter financial performance.

Do not waste a minutenot a secondin trying to demonstrate to others the merits of your performance. If your work does not vindicate itself, you cannot vindicate it.

We recognize that our fourth-quarter results forecast is unacceptable and we are working with a laser-like focus to improve our performance,

The curtain airbag did a good job of cushioning the heads of both the driver and rear passenger dummies. Plus, injury measures recorded on the neck, torso, pelvis, and left leg of the dummies all were low. Saab can still make improvements to the 9-3's structure, but in all other areas this was very good performance.

Bigger is better. Bigger offers more opportunities for increasing sales volume and increasing the customer base. It would give them an opportunity to improve their comparable sales performance.

This was as good a performance as I've seen in awhile. These guys were awesome. I could have called any play on my sheet today. The blocking was crisp, the running was outstanding, the effort was awesome.

Today was a solid performance.

It is shocking. We haven't had a performance like this before. We've always found a way to move the ball and score points, and today we just couldn't do anything. I wish I had a reason why. We've had bad games before where the next week you come in and work on something and hopefully get better, but this performance is one we'll have to think about for the next several months.

It's clear we are trading cheap relative to the other exchanges. It doesn't tie in with our actual performance.

Performance Art is brief, about 15 minutes long. This is a problem in that you cannot get people to come out to watch a 15-minute performance.

We think such a discussion is overdue, in light of Sun's past five years of poor performance, and weak results in comparison to our peers.

Despite the soft overall March performance, we saw gains in selected areas such as home related products and apparel which were affected by favorable weather and improved merchandise offerings.

We occasionally miss one or two during a performance, but we pretty much have it down. We practice two to four hours a day during the off season.

We have to start making moves. If we want to make the playoffs, it has to start tonight. We have to go out and put out a playoff-type performance.

I think there are really two classes of problems. First is the availability of the Web site, particularly Web site outages and performance. Many customers were turned away because there were sites that couldn't handle the volumes. The more serious problem is fulfillment -- getting the goods into the boxes and getting them into the hands of the shippers.

Swimmer performance was awesome for the first meet ever in Nelson County High School history. Spectators could hardly believe it was a first-year team competing.

This is a huge win for WWF as they continue to build their powerhouse brand, and a huge win for Viacom as we look to capitalize on the incredible breadth of our media holdings to drive our growth and financial performance.

One thing I discovered in seeing the completed 'King Kong' for the first time, is that Kong is even stronger than I thought he would be, based on Andy's original performance. One of the things I liked best about it is that Kong is now a gorilla, not a monster. Andy brought that out.

Companies around the world have purchased more than 40 billion worth of enterprise applications, including ERP, CRM and HR, during the past few years. This has generated significant volumes of data in support of the operational processes they automate. By investing in BI, companies can further leverage their enterprise application investments and turn the torrent of data into meaningful insight to better measure performance, respond more quickly to market changes and opportunities and comply with an increasingly complex regulatory environment.

There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque.

We accepted his decision with sadness, but also with the knowledge that changes needed to be made. The board is confident that the new leadership will bring a renewed focus on execution and performance.

Obviously two terrific rivals and a terrific early season game of football. I was pleased with the performance of the kids. Not terribly pleased with the result because I thought we did enough to win it I think were just going to get better from here.

I've been coaching for 26 years, and this performance is one of the greatest I've ever seen.

The combined efforts of our two teams of professionals will bring our procurement capabilities to a new level of performance. Our company has made good strides in identifying opportunities for savings and putting a platform in place to enable improved focus and line-of-sight alignment as well as to drive compliance through effective purchasing. ICG Commerce provides the category, process and operational expertise we need to make sure the savings are realized and continuously improved upon and the platform is fully utilized.

Nobody asked us how we'd like to receive (their gold medals). It sure wouldn't have been the way it was done. But you quickly realize the athletes have no say in what happens at the Olympics except for your performance. After that, you lose control.

The data could prove marginally positive for ATI. Its share gain in the performance DX9 sub-segment is encouraging, and we believe this is the beginning of more significant high-end share gains by ATI in upcoming quarters.

We are extremely pleased to have this second opportunity for performance, ... Hopefully, all who enjoyed the show the first time will return and bring new visitors into this tangled web we have woven

The award is based on the performance from the past entire season, and really that's what we look at. Performance is the most important part, not just potential. Generally that's the rule of thumb. But at the same time, when you put it all together, if the performance is good enough to put you above the other players, there is something there.

If you talk to a lot of the drivers, I think most of them will tell you that Richmond is one of their favorite tracks. It's just a driver's track. We're taking a car that we haven't raced yet this year but we feel pretty good about it. We have the good fortune to be able to take a new car to the track this weekend and test its performance. Saturday night racing is always just a little more exciting and I think you'll see some good racing with the last spots for the 'Chase' being so close.

We realize our work is far from over. Even when we see impressive overall performance, we know that the average often includes some sub-par schools. We must continue to work even harder to uphold the charter model of excellence and accountability to improve them or weed them out. It must be about quality for our kids.

During the course of a year I work with a lot of different Indian musicians, often in situations where I'm playing more of a classical Indian performance, ... At the same time, as a writer and composer I'm trying to figure out how to bring in some of the abstraction that exists in jazz.

Tech has been hit hard this year, with the semiconductors down nearly 40 percent, so we've been seeing this rise recently. What's in question is whether this is just a much-deserved bounce after the weak performance, or if this is something more. It's not clear yet.

I'm happy with our performance, but turnovers and our running game was unsuccessful. And we are not a good enough team to make those mistakes.

This wasn't our best performance. But it feels good to be the district champion.

A continued strong sales performance, especially for the five key growth products, together with benefits arising from productivity initiatives across the entire company, has produced an outstanding result ... and is reflected in an increase in our financial targets for the full year.

She was a very devout teacher. There was a fanaticism about her in terms of the quality of a performance she sought from her students, and about how they thought about the music they played.

Investors can be assured that the company is financially sound and focused on improving our longer-term operating performance.

Their keeper had some great saves. Chelsea played a great game. All of my girls played a great game today. We just had a good team performance. I'm really proud of them. We needed that win.

We had a lot of ups and downs today. We had some 9.9s and some low scores. You could tell it was the beginning of the season. The landings are still difficult and they do not have the confidence that they need to have. But that's just because it's the beginning of the season. Today's performance was a significant improvement from last week.

The team's performance, mainly in the second half, was affected by the absence of eight regular players. It was evident most in the defense. But they will learn from their mistakes.

This engine is tuned for maximum performance. Peak power is upwards of 450, with legendary Chevy reliability to keep the horses flowing for years. The Barrett-Jackson bidders appreciate the importance of a good motor with the small block crossing the block for charity, we are expecting the enthusiasm levels to be extremely high.

Given the current priest sex abuse situation in the Catholic Church, we find it offensive and horrifying that any Catholic university would want to allow a performance that portrays something similar to the current sex abuse scandal as something good for the victim.

I thought some of our guys wrestled tight. When they did that, they didn't have a lot in their performance.

The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.

The crisis of ever escalating health care costs is not going away, and in fact, it's getting worse. Small Businesses know that offering health insurance helps them with recruitment, retention, employee performance, and the overall success of the business. This is something I firmly believe Congress should address right now. Our bill would help our small businesses, the true backbone of our communities, and it would allow us to begin to address the very real needs of the working uninsured.