Performance Quotes

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You cannot increase the quality or quantity of your achievement or performance except to the degree in which you increase your ability to use your… — Brian Tracy
When we ... devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty, ihen happiness comes of itself. — Wilhelm von Humboldt
In a professional once engaged, the performance of the job comes first. — Garson Kanin
It's been a horrifying academic secret for decades that the children who walk away with the highest formal honors, the valedictorians and National Merit Scholars,… — John Taylor Gatto
Unless an action is rightly thought out and its steps rightly planned, every stage of its performance will probably remain vague and therefore unsatisfactory for… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
It's not enough to shelve your own competitive streak. You have to try, consciously, to help others succeed. Some people feel this is like shooting… — Chris Hadfield
While fund performance is unpredictable, the impact of fees is not, .. A 1- percent annual fee will reduce an ending account balance by 17… — Arthur Levitt Jr
Being the first mid-size SUV for the brand, Dodge Nitro had to personify the bold, powerful and street-smart attitude of Dodge. In a world of… — George Murphy
Money can extinguish intrinsic motivation, diminish performance, crush creativity, encourage unethical behavior, foster short-term thinking, and become addictive. — Daniel H. Pink
I am very pleased to be involved with the Daniel Pearl Music Days committee because its message resonates with me on a very personal level,… — Russell Simmons
It's partly the Southernization of America, in that the Southern working-class version of redneck is becoming the national version, and it's good-natured, it has humor… — Robert Charles Wilson
To understand is to experience harmony between what we aim at and what is given, between the intention and the performance - and the body… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty
I'd also like to do a play. I've never done theater, and constantly changing and refining a performance is something I'd like to do, even… — Nastassja Kinski
The best thing about the term 'performance artist' is that it includes just about everything you might want to do. — Laurie Anderson
I prepare myself very intensely. I am at the theatre four hours before the performance. It allows for complete concentration and preparation. — Natalia Makarova
Baseball is the exponent of American Courage, Confidence, Combativeness, American Dash, Discipline, Determination, American Energy, Eagerness, Enthusiasm, American Pluck, Persistency, Performance, American Spirit, Sagacity, Success,… — Albert Goodwill Spalding
The best way to get away from a crisis and yet hold on the reins without performance is to find a godfather who would save… — Sourav Ganguly
Master data management is a discipline that goes hand in hand with information governance. Forward-thinking organizations are instituting processes to gain agreement on roles, responsibilities,… — Henry M. Morris
It is not a dreamlike state, but the somehow insulated state, that a great musician achieves in a great performance. He's aware of where he… — Arnold Palmer
A soft, easy life is not worth living, if it impairs the fibre of brain and heart and muscle. We must dare to be great;… — Theodore Roosevelt

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