Performs Quotes
104 quotes by 95 authors
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Philosophy is a goddess, whose head indeed is in heaven, but whose feet are upon earth; she attempts more than she accomplishes, and promises more…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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An author arrives at a good style when his language performs what is required of it without shyness.
— Cyril Connolly
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Each individual in fact has moral responsibility for the acts which he personally performs; no one can be exempted from this responsibility, and on the…
— Pope John Paul II
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claiming that the destructive practice of mountaintop removal mining, blowing the tops off mountains to get at the coal beneath, performs the "necessary" function of…
— Joseph Conrad
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Human attention, in the best of circumstances, is a fluid but fragile entity. Beyond a certain threshold, the more that is asked of it, the…
— Tom Vanderbilt
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Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love…
— Vincent Van Gogh
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No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or…
— Calvin Coolidge
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Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high…
— Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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Neuroplasticity research showed that the brain changes its very structure with each different activity it performs, perfecting its circuits so it is better suited to…
— Naveen Jain
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James Taylor is the kind of person I always thought the word 'folksinger' referred to. He writes and sings songs that are reflections of his…
— Jon Landau
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Hunger is almost like something the West does. It's almost like the direct result of the way the West performs.
— Bill Nighy
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One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently.
— Manuel Puig
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The country blacksmith who employs no journeyman is never conscious of any conflict between the capital invested in his anvil, hammer and bellows, and the…
— Leland Stanford
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So the animal finally performs in that situation only the fitting act.
— Edward Thorndike
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In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever.
— Niklaus Wirth
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
— William Cowper
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Every true faith is infallible. It performs what the believing person hopes to find in it. But it does not offer the least support for…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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This inner peace of mind occurs on three levels of understanding. Physical quietness seems the easiest to achieve, although there are levels and levels of…
— Robert M. Pirsig
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For he that does good, having the unlimited power to do evil, deserves praise not only for the good which he performs, but for the…
— Walter Scott
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You say 'I' and you are proud of this word. But greater than this- although you will not believe in it - is your body…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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