If you can’t please yourself some of the time, how do you expect to please people all the time? Not everyone is going to appreciate you for your efforts and deeds.

I’m really disappointed with my performance since Australia,

When we help others to perform at the highest level of their potential, we receive something of value; our character is strengthened.

I put the sing in single—especially when I’m in the shower. Does anybody have any requests they’d like to shout out while the water’s getting hot? As always, silence all cell phones during the duration...

When you win nothing hurts.

(When) you get a pitching performance like that, you want to get a win. We should be able to scrape together two or three runs, but we didn’t get it done. Offensively, we have to...

If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.

It was a great professional performance from our team. We had four run outs in Pakistan innings that was fantastic. The boys were confident after our bowlers did well and restricted Pakistan to 265 on...

We are very disappointed with our year-to-date financial performance and have not yet seen a positive turn in our operational performance,

performance” of the Cheerios.Could the Cheerios be in bad voice? Might not they handle well on curves? Do they ejaculate too quickly? Has age affected their timing or are they merely in a mid-season slump?...

I was very excited when I saw those marks, … I thought I skated well and was happy with my performance.

It was a good pitcher’s duel, but it would have been tough to waste that pitching performance by Andy. The biggest thing with Andy was getting his velocity back. Everybody in here knew that once...

Hard Rock Cafe’s like-for-like sales continue to improve and this was supported by exceptional performance in the hotel and casino division with revenue continuing to exceed projections. In 2005, we also successfully relocated our New...

No parts of our game were there today. It was a disgrace. This is our worst performance of the year, without a doubt. We weren’t there mentally, we weren’t there physically ? we were bad...

The software guys haven’t been shooting high enough. But as the performance available becomes higher, someone out there will be smart enough to take advantage of it. Of course, if they’re not Microsoft, that could...

Based on our strong performance and preliminary market data for the first nine months in 1998, we now feel confident in declaring that we have significantly increased our market share in mobile phones to become...

Today was a solid performance.

We expect better performance in the second half to follow a lackluster first half, with more uplifting assessment in the markets of issues like inflation, Fed policy, politics and earnings.

That batting performance was about as good as you could possibly ask for; I don’t know how it could be better.

We were pretty depressed after the performance we had at the Reno Tournament of Champions.

It’s that iconic imagery of that sea of raised fists during a live performance. It’s a symbol of unity and strength and at the same time there are elements of defiance and rebellion that are...

Just watching the drama stage does not define your successful performance; success lies in the display you do on that drama platform and how excellent you do it when it’s your turn to act!

At the margin, it’s not helpful to the stock-price performance.

Too often executive pay is not tied to performance.

This is world’s best launch team. Congratulations for another awesome performance.

I fought well today. I’m satisfied with my performance.

Don’t waste today by talking about yesterday until it’s finally tomorrow.

We were very disappointed with our performance today but we’re happy to take the points.

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...