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.

In an environment where there is a shared vision of excellence, where people can be the best they can be on a daily basis, where they know what is expected of them, understand that reward...

We got an outstanding performance from Lenny Jefferson, who lit it up early.

Today is the worst performance of the season for me. I couldn’t skate clean. I do not understand really what happened to me.

Creativity is when a stupid clever soul gets up from bed and does amazing things that makes the world think he is wise.

I was really excited about her performance. For her to come out there with three 9.90s, she really made it all look so easy.

This was our best performance when you also consider it came after the Bradford win. It’s a fantastic win in its own right – but doubled up with Bradford makes it even more special. It...

I’m happy to pay for them. I believe strongly in their performance.

If you’re going to do something, strive to do it better than anyone else. Do it all the way. If you’re going to half-ass it, why bother?

We are very disappointed in our performance this quarter as we continued to feel the effects of record-high fuel prices and a tough revenue environment, compounded by the impact of Hurricane Wilma and the residual...

I had a dream about you. You were the lead guitarist in a band with no voice, and you were holding auditions for lead singer. Everybody in line in front of me and behind me...

Apathy’s just a front. People offer it when there’s something stronger hiding underneath. You have to work harder to tap into it, but then your performance has even more power.

Another dominant performance on a tough course.

When you step from the wings onto the stage you go from total blackness to a blinding hot glare. After a moment you adjust, but there is that moment. like being inside lightning.

We are very pleased with our first quarter results. The company’s strong performance demonstrates the benefits of our continued diversification and enhanced operational focus. This past quarter we had particularly strong results in Retail Banking...

It is hard to go beyond your public. If they are satisfied with cheap performance, you will not easily arrive at better. If they know what is good, and require it. you will aspire and...

In the second quarter, we delivered respectable financial results … but our summer product performance continued to be challenging,

In looking at our our individual classroom pedagogies and our isolated artistic endeavors, we must broaden the frame of analysis to consider historical, contextual and institutional assumptions. This means a constant awareness of how the...

Why? Because it’s January and you can’t worry about it. I don’t think we had a bad performance, but I didn’t think anybody stepped up and had a big performance.

I think it’s unfortunate that things are seen as winners or losers because in the end, it’s the performance that matters.

Dining at the rare reasonTo get between the circumstanceAnd start milking the Caesars For what enters the earsAnd is for their eyes to air and advise.

On Friday, we had a ratio of 12 to 1 of losers to winners. That’s the worst performance since 1997. We also had over 3,000 declining issues. This shows real weakness.

It was a workmanlike performance but I’m very pleased.

The worst thing you can do is catch a team coming off a bad performance, … Those are the teams that are the most dangerous. They will blow you out. You have to look at...

Overall, I feel that the team had a strong performance. The guys were able to hang around and not let the other teams separate themselves. I’ve got a real good feeling heading into tomorrow, knowing...

Notwithstanding, the several unusual items that influenced our results the last three months demonstrate that the underlying performance of The Hartford’s property and casualty and life operations was strong.

There’s no game tonight if Flats is not sharp. You have to be honest with the performance he put together here. Wade Flaherty was the difference. I’ve challenged him a little bit lately and he...

[His performance, on a one-through-10 scale?] I give him a five, … Average.

It’s an opportune time to make this transition, … Performance is strong, flows are positive, and the organization is stable. We had a lot of challenges before us, and we’ve fixed a lot of those....

Brad Richards is a very special hockey player. The key for Brad is to continue to build on his performance and help move our club into elite company as well.

When you look at their scores by quarters, their fourth-quarter performance is really something. That tells you that they are going to play right to the end.

Obviously without Alana this year, we would have struggled more. Alana improved her performance each game. As the season went on, things became easier for the younger kids and it was because of Alana. Alana...

Our bench performance was outstanding today.

That was as well as we’ve played this year – particularly the first 45 minutes. The performance was excellent.

It was pleasing to get that total performance, we’re now a team who can win dirty if necessary,

A Dr van ‘t Hoff of the veterinary college at Utrecht… finds it a less arduous task to mount Pegasus (evidently borrowed from the veterinary school) and to proclaim in his La Chemie dans l’...

How much we like ourselves governs our performance.

You don’t really need to forego practicality to have sports car performance.

Healthy mortgage lending data show that housing market activity extended its recent firmer performance in December. This is also borne out by the latest survey evidence consistently showing increased buyer interest.

The performance of dividend-paying stocks has more to do with the fundamentals in their industries.

To pay out millions upon millions of dollars in bonuses for incomplete work, poor performance, and unacceptable products is the height of government waste and mismanagement.

We await their creative interpretations of works by others and we love how they freely adapt and alter the music we like and enjoy. The wonderful magical alchemy they co-create is enough to spur the...

I was impressed with our performance on beam. It was just like last year at the national championships when we stuck with a plan and had a belief we would win the competition. It was...

Based on recent adverse findings for performance-enhancing substances and the subsequent allegations of trafficking in these substances, I feel that it is necessary to commission a wide-ranging inquiry to examine all the details of the...

I don’t think there’s any question that was our best performance of the year, against a really good team. That was our best basketball in a couple of years.

I thought this was a gutsy performance by our team. Cleveland really jumped out on us and put us in a big hole and our team responded in the second half. Our third quarter defense...

That kind of performance has always been there.