“ We are very pleased with our results for the quarter, achieved as they were in a challenging economic climate, and encouraged by the turnaround we enjoyed at several of our key businesses. ”
- Rupert Murdoch- Copy
- 1.8K
“ Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way…you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions. ”
- Aristotle- Copy
- 609
“ The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. ”
- Confucius- Copy
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“ Action without a name, a "who" attached to it, is meaningless. ”
- Hannah Arendt- Copy
- 339
“ My best kiss was on stage. Kelly Rowland from Destiny's Child gave me a really nice soft kiss on my lips during a performance on my birthday. It was amazing. ”
- Chris Brown- Copy
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“ Performance is your reality. Forget everything else. ”
- Harold Sydney Geneen- Copy
- 605
“ I really wanted to be a dancer, but I ended up as an actress and I got to perform next to some of the greatest actors of our time. ”
- Virginia Mayo- Copy
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“ If you want a high performance woman, I can go from zero to bitch in less than 2.1 seconds. ”
- Krystal Ann Kraus- Copy
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“ The best performance improvement is the transition from the nonworking state to the working state. ”
- John Ousterhout- Copy
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“ A good history covers not only what was done, but the thought that went into the action. You can read the history of a country through its actions. ”
- Benjamin L. Hooks- Copy
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“ Do not waste a minute — not a second — in trying to demonstrate to others the merits of your performance. If your work does not vindicate itself, you cannot vindicate it. ”
- Thomas Wentworth Higginson- Copy
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“ Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance. ”
- James B. Conant- Copy
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“ I like to be against the odds. I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top. With me, it's just the satisfaction of the game. Just performance. ”
- Barry Bonds- Copy
- 309
“ If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
- 3.4K
“ Actions of the last age are like almanacs of the last year. ”
- Sir John Denham- Copy
- 3.9K
“ It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away. ”
- Harold Sydney Geneen- Copy
- 1K
“ It was a solid performance. It's always a test playing against a Spanish player on clay, and you could see the difference from yesterday (against Greg Rusedski). ”
- Roger Federer- Copy
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“ The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event. ”
- Edward Gibbon- Copy
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“ The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance. ”
- Jean Jacques Rousseau- Copy
- 1.5K
“ In opera, as with any performing art, to be in great demand and to command high fees you must be good of course, but you must also be famous. The two are different things. ”
- Luciano Pavarotti- Copy
- 3.5K
“ The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities. ”
- Daniel Day Lewis- Copy
- 2.4K
“ The most decisive actions of our life — I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future — are, more often than not, unconsidered. ”
- Andre Gide- Copy
- 558
“ It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality. ”
- Harold Sydney Geneen- Copy
- 1.7K
“ You really have to keep up your nerve for the sake of the performance and other actors around you. There is a real camaraderie at the theatre which I enjoy as I have always been a team player. ”
- John Leslie- Copy
- 3.1K
“ It is strange how your understanding of a play changes. It normally happens after a performance and you suddenly think, 'So that's what that line really means' - it's like a light going on. ”
- Richard McCabe- Copy
- 2K
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