My dad read The Hobbit to me originally when I was young. So, it was the first imaginary landscape I ever had… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
Productivity and efficiency can be achieved only step by step with sustained hard work, relentless attention to details and insistence on the… — J. R. D. Tata Copy Share Image
High achievers dwell on what they do well and spend very little time evaluating themselves and their performances. — John Eliot Copy Share Image
A dance performance is rather like going out into a battlefield. You have to hold the attention of as many as five… — Yamini Krishnamurthy Copy Share Image
For some artists the live performance is the chicken before the egg of writing or recording of repertoire. For other artists the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of the most memorable live performances of my career took place on the 2002 American Music Awards show when I had… — Tim McGraw Copy Share Image
By age seven, I used to comb my hair for performances, just pull my hair up into a bun. Granted, it wasn't… — Janet Jackson Copy Share Image
Only your customers can define quality, because it's meeting your customers' expectations the first time every time. Simply put, it's performance to… — Ed Robertson Copy Share Image
If every auditorium were razed to the ground, theatre would still survive, because the hunger in each of us to act and… — Declan Donnellan Copy Share Image
During one performance of 'Les Miserables,' the barricade didn't leave the stage, so we had to actually end up finishing the second… — Josh Young Copy Share Image
There are times when players have got to feel that if they work hard and they give everything, they get the carrot,… — Warren Gatland Copy Share Image
At the crowded Costanzi Theater in Rome, while I was listening to the orchestral performance of your overwhelming Futurist music,1 together with… — Luigi Russolo Copy Share Image
The bad news is that ignoring the performance of people is almost as bad as shredding their effort in front of their… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
Music therapy, to me, is music performance without the ego. It's not about entertainment as much as its about empathizing. If you… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
No one can say just how long a message should be, but you rarely hear complaints about a speech being too short.… — Edgar Dale Copy Share Image
Too often, charity is extended to another when his actions or conduct are acceptable to us. The exhibition of charity to another… — H. Burke Peterson Copy Share Image
Oysters are supposed to enhance your sexual performance, but they don't work for me. Maybe I put them on too soon. — Garry Shandling Copy Share Image
I still come out to music that's in Spanish. There's no denying who I am, but I've just made it to where… — Gabriel Iglesias Copy Share Image
Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment… — Harvey Mackay Copy Share Image
Former U.S. House Majority Leader, Tom DeLay, has been sentenced to three years in prison. One year for money laundering and two… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
I'm attracted to roles that are unpredictable, and if I can get my hands on something like that, I'm thrilled. I like… — Timothy Olyphant Copy Share Image
Funding for faith-based charities should] be judged based on performance and results - not religion. Now, if our sin is that our… — Eugene Rivers Copy Share Image
Performance art is about joy, about making something that's so full of kind of a wild joy that you really can't put… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn't be here. I guarantee you that. — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
I have to have lemon and honey. I have to have apple cider vinegar, Braggs. And I have to have either Red… — Mary J. Blige Copy Share Image
Inventory discipline across the brands coupled with an outstanding holiday performance at Victoria's Secret led to a 36 percent increase in fourth-quarter… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
This play John Drinkwater's Abraham Lincoln holds the season's record, thus far, with a run of four evening performances and one matinee.… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Management is about human beings. Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Positive reinforcement generates more behavior than is minimally required. We call this discretionary effort, and its presence in the workplace is the… — Aubrey Daniels Copy Share Image
To prefer paper to gold is to prefer high risk to lower risk, instability to stability, inflation to steady long term values,… — William E. Rees Copy Share Image
Zach Galifianakis is a comic force of nature! He is terrific. He digs down here and delivers a beautifully nuanced performance that… — Peter Travers Copy Share Image
Secularism and Religion are both all about your personal performance. The Gospel is the performance of another applied to you. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
From the business point of view—not to overstate it—intellectual property is dead; long live intellectual process. Long live service; long live performance. — Esther Dyson Copy Share Image
While 9-5 and what happens on the job is important, what happens from 5-9, off the job, is infinitely more important. — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
We can extrapolate from the study that for the long term individual investor who maintains a consistent asset allocation and leans toward… — Roger G. Ibbotson Copy Share Image
Faithfulness in the performance of small duties gives us strength to adhere to difficult determinations that life will someday force us to… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
If I'm focusing on playing and enjoying the song, then it always goes well. I get lost in the song, and the… — Marketa Irglova Copy Share Image
'Concentrate on measuring performance and winning will take care of itself'. That is a brilliant excuse for coming second... — Clive Woodward Copy Share Image
It's weird, not to sound too actor but I think that any time you do a performance, you kind of take a… — Alia Shawkat Copy Share Image
I'm pretty obsessed with Stevie Nicks from her style to her voice. I like watching her on YouTube and her old performances,… — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
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