“Although we can't control which roles are assigned to us, it must be our business to act our given role as best we possibly can and to refrain from complaining about it. Where ever you find yourself and in whatever circumstances, give an impeccable performance.” GivingMotivationalGivenRolesCircumstancesPerformancesComplainingFinding YourselfRefrainImpeccable Author:Epictetus
“He shouldn't have resigned over that game. It was not a bad performance; in fact it was quite a good one for England. I would not have resigned under those circumstances.” FactsGamesFootballCircumstancesPerformancesEnglandManagersSoccerChairmanResignedBad Performance Author:Franz Beckenbauer
“In the performance of our duty one feeling should direct us; the case we should consider as our own, and we should ask ourselves, whether, placed under similar circumstances, we should choose to submit to the pain and danger we are about to inflict.” ShouldFeelingsPainAsksCasesDangerDutyCircumstancesDirectPerformancesSubmitSurgery Author:Astley Cooper
“I prefer to have playback, but sometimes, you can't have that under most circumstances. First, it is expensive because you need a playback operator and secondly, it threatens a lot of directors. I only watch my performance. I see what is necessary for me so that I can see it right at the moment and I can fix it. That appeals to me a great deal.” NeedsFirstsI CanSometimesMomentsDealsWatchesCircumstancesDirectorsPerformancesAppealsExpensiveOperators Author:James Cromwell
“There are more similarities than differences when it comes to preparation of a performance. You're using some lyrics, you have a relationship with them, they apply to different parts of your life and different circumstances, different memories, different stories you have in your head. You form personal relationships with the song. I think that's very similar, in a way, to prepping a character. You pour your own personality, in a sense, into the character, you sympathize with a character in a way that's similar to the way you might sympathize with a song.” ThinkingWayDifferentCharacterStoriesMightFormSongDifferencesMemoriesPersonalityCircumstancesPerformancesPreparationSimilarityPersonal Relationships Author:Scarlett Johansson
“Behavior must also be adequately assessed under appropriate circumstances. Ill-defined global measures of perceived self-efficacy or defective assessments of performance will yield discordances. Disparities will also arise when efficacy is judged for performances in actual situations but performance is measured in simulated situations that are easier to deal with than the actualities” SelfDealsSituationCircumstancesEasierBehaviorPerformancesIllAriseDefinedAppropriateYieldJudgedAssessmentActualityEfficacyDisparityDefectiveSelf EfficacyPerceived Self Author:Albert Bandura
“Discrepancies between self-efficacy judgment and performance will arise when either the tasks or the circumstances under which they are performed are ambiguous” SelfCircumstancesJudgmentTasksPerformancesAriseAmbiguousEfficacySelf EfficacyDiscrepanciesDiscrepancies Between Author:Albert Bandura
“I have the confidence that I can take anybody and have them give a good performance, because I don't think there's anything to acting except expressing, being able to converse. So if I can just convince somebody not to clean themselves up, and not to be someone that they're not, and just be what they are in given circumstances, that's all that acting is to me, and I don't think it's very difficult.” IfsThinkingGivingI CanAbleGivenDifficultActingCircumstancesPerformancesCleanConvinceConverses Author:John Cassavetes
“The Bible is full of God's promises to provide for us spiritually and materially, to never forsake us, to give us peace in times of difficult circumstances, to cause all circumstances to work together for our good, and finally to bring us safely home to glory. Not one of those promises is dependent upon our performance. They are all dependent on the grace of God given to us through Jesus Christ.” GivingHomeTogetherJesusGivenCausesDifficultChristGraceCircumstancesPromiseGloryJesus ChristPerformancesDependentWorking TogetherGrace Of GodForsakeDifficult Circumstances Author:Jerry Bridges
“When product performance outstrips the ability of customers to use that performance in an industry, the competitive game changes. Under those circumstances you have to decouple components businesses from assembly businesses.” UseGamesAbilityProductsIndustryCircumstancesPerformancesCustomersComponentsAssembly Author:Clayton Christensen
“Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.” SpiritCertainTalentCircumstancesDemandPerformancesDeedsStupidityWickedInsensitivity Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg