Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I used to watch the world as if it was a performance and I would realize that certain things that people did moved me, and certain things didn't move me, and I tried to analyze, even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did.Alan Arkin
I think I've really stepped outside the box in the way I try to train, eat, hydrate, the cognitive brain games I play on a daily or weekly basis to try to build up some durability within my body, within my brain, to be able to go out there and play at a high level at age 38.Tom Brady
Years of standing in the limelight portraying other people for large amounts of money does not usually lead to a high degree of self-examination, let alone self-criticism.Michael Korda
I'm now learning how to distinguish when I'm acting and when I'm not acting - offstage as well as onstage.Micky Dolenz
What we can control is our performance and our execution, and that's what we're going to focus on.Bill Belichick
Excellence is being able to perform at a high level over and over again. You can hit a half-court shot once. That's just the luck of the draw. If you consistently do it... that's excellence.Jay-Z
This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.William Shakespeare
Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.Ted Williams
It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.Harold S. Geneen
Any high-performing organization has to have mechanisms and a culture that supports truth telling.Reed Hastings
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.Samuel Butler
Champions behave like champions before they're champions. They have a winning standard of performance before they are winners.Bill Walsh
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.Naval Ravikant