Perform Quotes

“Coaching 101: First you build the team, and then you build the torture chamber for underperformers.”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book Has No Title

“My greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.”
― Kanye West

“They say, timing is everything. But then they say, there is never a perfect time for anything.”
― Anthony Liccione

“Brian came in heavy at that moment on his guitar, the rapid, high-pitched squeal ranging back and forth as his fingers flew along the frets. As the intro's tempo grew more rapid, Bekka heard Derek's subtle bass line as it worked its way in. After another few seconds Will came in, slow at first, but racing along to match the others' pace. When their combined efforts seemed unable to get any heavier, David jumped into the mix.

As the sound got nice and heavy, Bekka began to rock back-and-forth onstage. In front of her, hundreds of metal-lovers began to jump and gyrate to their music. She matched their movements for a moment, enjoying the connection that was being made, before stepping over to the keyboard that had been set up behind her. Sliding her microphone into an attached cradle, she assumed her position and got ready. Right on cue, all the others stopped playing, throwing the auditorium into an abrupt silence. Before the crowd could react, however, Bekka's fingers began to work the keys, issuing a rhythm that was much softer and slower than what had been built up. The audience's violent thrash-dance calmed at that moment and they began to sway in response.

Bekka smiled to herself.

This is what she lived for.”
― Nathan Squiers, Death Metal

“Your health, wealth, position, performance, ability and attitude are the results of your decisions.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Dream big!: See your bigger picture!

“Self-management, therefore, is all about becoming your own leader by training your mental, physical, social and intellectual faculties in different ways.”
― Dr Prem Jagyasi

“We simply need to be aware of our capable self and accordingly, manage it in such a way that our efforts always complement our skills, competence, and dedication to perform.”
― Dr Prem Jagyasi

“Strive hard to be among the top performers. To do this, create a standard. Go higher than this standard. Set another higher standard; surpass it and repeat the process.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, 101 Keys To Everyday Passion

“We prepared properly and performed well, and it just didn’t go right,” then there’s nothing to regret. You just have to be determined to get ’em the next time.”
― Bob Rotella, How Champions Think: In Sports and in Life

“If someone in that category asks me whether he should keep going, I don’t have an answer. I have questions. The most basic is, “Are you sure you’ve honored your commitment?” By that, I mean to ask whether the client has done what he set out to do, which is to make the strongest possible effort to become as good as he can be by creating and fulfilling performance and preparation processes.”
― Bob Rotella, How Champions Think: In Sports and in Life

“Performance process goals involve things like staying in the present moment, accepting whatever happens as it happens, underreacting to everything, being unflappable, and totally trusting in your skills during competition.”
― Bob Rotella, How Champions Think: In Sports and in Life

“Destiny is shaped by thoughts, influenced by choices, and executed by hands.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“Coaching 101: First you build the team, and then you build the torture chamber for the underperformers.”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale

“Every natural subject of the universe, in any shape or form, is the result of the sex. The sex does not mean which only the human performs; other ways are also to practice that.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“What I thought were poor performing employees were actually poisoned employees.”
― Steven Magee

“You must perform amidst the pain, this is the act of perseverance.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Quieting the mind means less regretting. The mind is still when it is totally here and now in perfect oneness with the action and the actor. It is the purpose of the Inner Game to increase the frequency and the duration of these moments, quieting the mind by degrees and realizing thereby a continual expansion of our capacity to learn and perform.”
― W. Timothy Gallwey, The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance

“It was a decision she would not regret, performing well enough right out of the gate that no further persuasion was required to convince Jamie to drop other sports and focus exclusively on running for the next three years.”
― Matt Fitzgerald, The Comeback Quotient: A Get-Real Guide to Building Mental Fitness in Sport and Life

“The top performer at your company probably also lives this way. Their real mission and true purpose? Living in alignment with their visions and being driven to fulfill them. They are defined by their own behaviors, not by anyone else’s opinion of them. That quality, that ability to determine one’s own true north, is something that unites successful people across every sport, industry, and military unit I’ve ever seen.”
― Trevor Moawad, It Takes What It Takes: How to Think Neutrally and Gain Control of Your Life

“If you restrict yourself to performing only in comfortable situations, your life will miss the fulfilment available to those who don’t restrict themselves. But if you embrace them, those challenging, high-pressure moments can be especially powerful and rewarding.
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― Ceri Evans, Perform Under Pressure: Change the Way You Feel, Think and Act Under Pressure

“If you restrict yourself to performing only in comfortable situations, your life will miss the fulfilment available to those who don’t restrict themselves. But if you embrace them, those challenging, high-pressure moments can be especially powerful and rewarding.”
― Ceri Evans, Perform Under Pressure

“Athletes get confidence from the leadership of their coach, the support of others, such as family and friends, the environment they perform in.”
― Noel Brick, Strong Minds: How to Unlock the Power of Elite Sports Psychology to Accomplish Anything

“Avoid overthinking and instead concentrate on the critical steps you need to take to perform at your best.”
― Noel Brick, Strong Minds: How to Unlock the Power of Elite Sports Psychology to Accomplish Anything

“So much of performance is about staying in the now. Active words like “focus” and “execute” can help pull you into the moment to concentrate on the task at hand.”
― Kara Goucher, Strong: A Runner's Guide to Boosting Confidence and Becoming the Best Version of You

“With peace, you can perform.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Never perform another fault or mistake to hide your first ones. Just admit it and express your regret for that. It is a way of the realistic and the great people.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“It is the person performing at their best regardless of the size of the audience or who is in the audience that matters.”
― Jeffrey G. Duarte

“I always perform a real time risk assessment on police officers that are interacting with me.”
― Steven Magee

“The sea level adapted human should always perform a risk assessment before venturing to high altitudes or flying.”
― Steven Magee, Toxic Altitude

“I like Tango. Why? People who tango don’t do it from the place of ego. They do not come to show off like people who twerk. My point is, finding people in the truth and integrity of their sensuality is very rare. There’s so much performative sensuality today and it’s empty.”
― Lebo Grand