Performs Quotes
104 quotes by 95 authors
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A man is most efficient and will more quickly and easily succeed when engaged in work that he loves, or work that he performs in…
— Napoleon Hill
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Longing performs all things
— Mary Renault
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Nature performs the cure, the physician takes the fee.
— Benjamin Franklin
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Almost 70 years have gone by, and I've still got that feeling when I write... Writing, for me, is still it. It has always been…
— Clive James
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Literature is the only art in which the audience performs the score.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Reading is performance. The reader--the child under the blanket with a flashlight, the woman at the kitchen table, the man at the library desk--performs the…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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When my neighbor walks the dogs, he performs a ritual act of sacer simplicitas, to use the church Latin: "sacred simplicity." Walking the dog is…
— Robert Fulghum
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Memory performs the impossible for man; holds together past and present, gives continuity and dignity to human life.
— Mark Van Doren
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It is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more aware of what we are, and therefore…
— J. W. N. Sullivan
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I think good physical conditioning is essential to any occupation. A man who is physically fit performs better at any job. Fatigue makes cowards of…
— Vince Lombardi
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In theory, there is nothing the computer can do that the human mind can not do. The computer merely takes a finite amount of data…
— Isaac Asimov
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We all have weak moments, moments where we lose faith, but it's our flaws, our weaknesses that make us human. Science now performs miracles like…
— Sarah Connor
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Everyone's life is a page in the human history irrespective of the position he or she holds or the work he or she performs.
— Abdul Kalam
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Faith, courage, and intelligent and uninterrupted awareness - these qualities are to be present whether one is wide awake, half asleep, or in deep slumber.…
— B.K.S. Iyengar
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People tend to judge presidents on how the economy performs, and yet we don't expect them to have the power to do much about it.…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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Fashion is treated too much as news rather than what it is, what it does and how it performs.
— Geoffrey Beene
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There is also a perfection of degrees, by which a person performs all the commands of God, with the full exertion of all his powers,…
— Charles Buck
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[Attributing the origin of life to spontaneous generation.] However improbable we regard this event, it will almost certainly happen at least once.... The time... is…
— George Wald
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No matter how many people you kill, using a machine gun in battle is not a war crime because it does not cause unnecessary suffering;…
— Sebastian Junger
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Artist refers to a person, willfully enmeshed in a dilemma of categories, who performs as if none of them existed.
— Allan Kaprow
Who Wrote These Performs Quotes
95 authors contributed a total of 104 Performs Quotes, led by these top contributors: