Definition of Performance

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Performance

The act of performing; the carrying into execution or action; execution; achievement; accomplishment; representation by action; as, the performance of an undertaking of a duty.

That which is performed or accomplished; a thing done or carried through; an achievement; a deed; an act; a feat; esp., an action of an elaborate or public character.

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Performance Quotations

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?
William Shakespeare

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.
Aristotle

A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
Peter Drucker

Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the "naturals," the ones who somehow know how to teach.
Peter Drucker

An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.
Mae West

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.
Ernest Hemingway

The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.
Ansel Adams

The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance.
Ansel Adams

Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.
Joe Paterno

Performance Translations

performance in French is performance
performance in Latin is effectus

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