“If people want to criticize a performance, that I understand. I think that's important.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantImportantPerformancesCriticize Author:Juno Temple
“To be happy is very important to do a great performance because you have to be comfortable; your mind has to be clear.” MindImportantClearComfortablePerformancesMmaGreat Performance Author:Lyoto Machida
“The incredible expansion of mobile technologies is another important factor that will both drive and support the deployment of workplace learning tools and systems in the areas of performance support, particularly, but also in areas such as expert location, crowdsourcing-based problem solving and others.” ImportantProblemTechnologySupportAreasToolsPerformancesIncrediblesFactorsExpertsProblem SolvingExpansionLocationWorkplaceMobileDeploymentCrowdsourcingMobile Technology Author:Charles Jennings
“The desire to maximize the number of winning trades (or minimize the number of losing trades) works against the trader. The success rate of trades is the least important performance statistic and may even be inversely related to performance.” MayImportantSuccessDesireWinningNumbersLosingPerformancesTradeRateRelatedTradingKey To SuccessRecipe For SuccessTradersMaximizingMinimizing Author:William Eckhardt
“I think it's more important to try and make a good film than give a good performance.” ThinkingGivingTryingImportantFilmPerformancesGood Films Author:Paul Dano
“An organization belongs on a sick list when promotion becomes more important to its people than accomplishment of their job they are in. It is sick when it is more concerned with avoiding mistakes than with taking risks, with counteracting the weaknesses of its members than with building on their strength. But it is sick also when "good human relations" become more important than performance and achievement.” PeopleHumansImportantJobsMistakeRiskBuildingMembersAchievementWeaknessConcernedPerformancesOrganizationSickRelationListsAccomplishmentAvoidingPromotionHuman RelationsTaking Risks Author:Peter Drucker
“At Wal-Mart, a co-worker once advised me that, although I had a lot to learn, it was also important not to "know too much," or at least never to reveal one's full abilities to management, because "the more they think you can do, the more they'll use you and abuse you." My mentors in these matters were not lazy; they just understood that there are few or no rewards for heroic performance. The trick lies in figuring out how to budget your energy so there'll be some left over for the next day.” ThinkingKnowsImportantMatterUseLyingNextEnergyLeftCan DoAbilityToo MuchUnderstoodPerformancesAbuseManagementRewardsWorkersTricksBudgetsLazyHeroicMentorNext DayCo Worker Author:Barbara Ehrenreich
“The director is the most important because, ultimately, as an actor, when you watch a movie, it looks like an actor is giving a performance, and they kind of are. But, what's actually happening is that an actor has given a bunch of ingredients over to a director, who then constructs a performance. That's movie-making.” GivingLooksKindImportantActorsGivenWatchesDirectorsHappeningsPerformancesBunchIngredientsConstructsMovie Making Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt
“The problem with our art form: it's so ephemeral, and catching performances can be so difficult... the important thing is what happens at the moment of performance, for the people who made the effort to be there: it lives with them.” PeopleArtMadeImportantMomentsProblemHappensFormDifficultEffortPerformancesImportant ThingsCatchingEphemeral Author:Judith Weir
“For me, the most important thing is the element of chance that is built into a live performance. The very great drawback of recorded sound is the fact that it is always the same. No matter how wonderful a recording is, I know that I couldn't live with it--even of my own music--with the same nuances forever.” KnowsImportantMatterFactsSoundChanceMy OwnForeverWonderfulElementsBuiltPerformancesImportant ThingsNuanceDrawbacksLive Performance Author:Aaron Copland
“Women watched for the spectacular performances of the men, and there can be no reasonable doubt that the presence of an audience is a very important factor in shaping the men's behavior. In fact, it is probable that the men are more exhibitionistic because the women admire their performances. Conversely, there can be no doubt that the spectacular behavior is a stimulus which summons the audience together, promoting in the women the appropriate behavior.” MenImportantFactsTogetherAudienceDoubtHe ManBehaviorPerformancesAdmireFactorsNo DoubtReasonableAppropriatePromotingSpectacularStimulusReasonable DoubtAppropriate Behavior Author:Gregory Bateson
“I believe stories are very important to all performances. The life story of the performer shapes their work, and the life stories of the audience alter how they receive the work, what they read into the performer.” BelieveImportantStoriesI BelieveAudienceShapesPerformancesPerformersLife Story Author:Marina Abramovic
“Please understand, I am not saying that technology is unimportant. I understand that technology is important. But if we are just focusing on technology and investing in an IT manufacturing plant to come up with higher performance processing [chips], we will not succeed.” IfsImportantTechnologyHigherPleaseSucceedPerformancesPlantInvestingCome UpChipsManufacturingUnimportantProcessing Author:Satoru Iwata
“It was important to have a similar energy in my performance. To make the character too different would have just been about my ego because it didn't need to be drastically different.” NeedsImportantDifferentCharacterEnergyEgoPerformances Author:Brandon Routh