As gatekeepers decline, status signals shift from approval-based to performance-based.

The fastest way to raise your level of performance: Cut your number of commitments in half.

A happy, calm, and peaceful person will make better decisions. So if you want to operate at peak performance, you have to learn how to tame your mind.

Sometimes greatness is the result of a transcendent, peak performance. But often, greatness is simply the result of a good performance repeated and sustained much longer than usual.

It was a gutsy performance. Jason Terry was really special. He just made shots. And Marquis [Daniels] was as aggressive as I’ve seen him all year.

I think our performance should be better this week than it was last week. They’re another week in camp, they should be getting over the hump in terms of the physical demands and they should...

People who like their job will give it their best. Those who don’t, show it by a poor performance.

Trustworthy is earned not bought.

It appears that the data we hear about hedge funds’ performance is absolute noise. Even if you accept the unique aspect of self-selected self-reporting, you can’t wash out all the failures and expect people to...

Without any music, I started to dance. I wanted the music to be inside me, or at least for it to appear that way. I imagined myself the lead with an audience here to see...

Don’t mistake activity with achievement.

Everybody contributed up and down the lineup. I lit them up a little bit Wednesday about their performance against Steamboat Springs, and they came out focused.

Certainly the performance of their employee as it relates to the EDC can be discussed in closed session.

What an outstanding pitching performance by Clarence Nicely. He came out and dominated the strike zone and really got us into the game. Clarence came into a very hostile South Alabama environment and pitched his...

I think it was our best performance of the season.

Nissan delivered a solid performance in fiscal 2005 despite the many challenges facing the global auto industry including higher raw material prices, higher energy costs, higher interest rates and higher incentives.

You can’t perform well in what you don’t love to do well. You can lead in what you can’t perform well. To lead well, be sure where you are, is where you supposed to be!

We got a solid pitching performance. Unfortunately, we got two hits.

If Intel had delivered these two chips on time, it would have really opened up a performance gap with AMD’s K6-2.

Street performances?””A little singing. A little martial arts. Some interpretive dance.””Wow.””I know! The Portuguese have taste.

I’m happy with my performance. My movements were good, considering it was the first match of the season.

We had a contract that was performance-based with guarantees to allow the commission to meet the consent decree. They (USF) said there would be zero overflows. They failed to have a design to produce zero...

It’s not very common for a big, slow-moving aircraft to ram into a high-performance jet fighter, … And we definitely made a sharp left turn — that was called uncontrolled flight — inverted in a...

To go 5-5 is just an outstanding performance on her part. (Central) is a solid team. We were right there, but they have solid hitters and came through at the right time.

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.

With multiple expansion having accounted for most of the outsized stock price performance for the group over the last year, we believe that many companies must now deliver on the robust earnings potential that their...

You can look at it from the performance of the whole fleet, to a given filling facility, right down to a unique keg. How many times that keg has been filled, when it was delivered,...

We’re finally seeing hard data that confirm the recent positive sentiment indicators. We expect a strong export performance well into 2007.

Aya was everywhere tonight. She had a great performance all around.

It’s a big step in performance that benefits end users and us competitively.

A performance does not capture or communicate with the mood and feelings of that very moment.

It was a gutsy performance by my guys tonight. San Jose State played extremely well in the first half. They dominated us on the boards. We’ve been close so many times, and we’ve been growing...

We have to be, and we will be, a performance-based series. You have to perform. You know what, the drivers … don’t want to limp in on a fan vote. They want to earn their...

Despite the final score line, I think it was a dominating performance by our team tonight. I think in the second half the number of substitutions affected the flow of the game.

It’s quite a good deal. We expect there will be upside on share performance.

It was a game where we were kind of embarrassed. We didn’t have the great performance that we wanted to. It’s good that we have them with that game still in our memory.

I was pleased with our performance. This year we had an average time of 19.02.

There are times when we are getting an outstanding performance from the running back. There are times when we are getting a hat on a hat to finish a block. We just have to do...

Performance is what matters to me, not the niceties of corporate structure.

You need to put Fiat Auto’s performance in parallel with those of Renault and Peugeot, both of whom issued profit warnings.

The real hero was Paul Gallacher in goal. He put in a great performance on Saturday and another great performance today. He kept us in the game and at 2-1 down made an unbelievable save...

The highlight of the March quarter was clearly the performance of our studio.

On the eve of the strike, we saw very, very poor performance.

It was as good an individual performance, particularly under pressure, I’ve had as a coach. This was a game that went right down to the wire with Jackson scoring 41.

Eat Bubblegum” dance, I can’t actually perform it because my belly doesn’t bulge out far enough. When I make love it sounds like I’m chewing on a chalkboard.

It’s setting up for a better performance by the consumer.

We’ve been watching Jens closely in recent weeks and have been quite impressed with his performance. We now want to take a closer look in the fitness tests.

They got a great performance out of Arroyo. He was very sharp and stayed on the attack. Ben was good tonight but Arroyo matched him pitch for pitch.

I expect him to play a good match. I just have to make sure my performance is good and make it as hard as possible for him to win.

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