Performance Quotes
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Positive reinforcement generates more behavior than is minimally required. We call this discretionary effort, and its presence in the workplace is the only way an organization can maximize performance.
Aubrey Daniels
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There's something strange about a laptop, how you can make the tiniest gesture and make the biggest sound. I don't feel I've resolved working a sense of performance into a piece yet.
Anna Meredith
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The non-doing of any evil,
the performance of what's skillful,
the cleansing of one's own mind:
this is the teaching of the Awakened.
Gautama Buddha
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To the extent that bank panics interfere with normal flows of credit, they may affect the performance of the real economy.
Ben Bernanke
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I was cocky and arrogant when I was younger. I thought that if I delivered a good performance, and put my best foot forward, that would be enough to get people's attention. So in my naivety, I cut my legs off at the knees, because I didn't realize that oftentimes it doesn't matter about the performance... it's the media that creates stars.
Bokeem Woodbine
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Girded with faith and the performance of good works, let us follow in his Jesus paths by the guidance of the Gospel.
Benedict of Nursia
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The thing about Janis is that she just looked so unique, an ugly duckling dressed as a princess, fearlessly so. Seeing her live was like watching a boxing match. Her performance was so in your face and electrifying that it really put you right there in the moment. There you were living your nice little life in the suburbs and suddenly there was this train wreck, and it was Janis.
Chrissie Hynde
Pretenders
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Sponsors obviously care more about a ninety-second commercial and want to pay you more than any guest star gets for a ninety-minute acting performance.
Barbara Stanwyck
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Performance in an endurance sport, as with many things, is only as good as the weakest link.
Brendan Brazier
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I am an athlete first and foremost, and it is vital for my competitiveness, my well being, and for my preparations for events during the European summer that I measure my performance against other athletes.
Caster Semenya
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As leaders, we're giving out grades in every encounter we have with people. We can choose to give out grades as an expectation to live up to, and then we can reassess them according to performance. Or we can offer grades as a possibility to live into. The second approach is much more powerful.
Benjamin Zander
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Dance is like wine; it matures with every performance.
Alarmel Valli
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I think the thing that keeps us motivated is challenging ourselves to see if we can be better than we've been before and seeing if we can stumble upon a magic that wasn't there before - whether it's a song, a performance, or a track that lights us up the way the first few records did.
Jay DeMarcus
Rascal Flatts
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Performance became part of my art in a way - expressing things and emotion.
Jessica Brown Findlay
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I love surprising people with a present or a gift or a stage performance or anything.
Michael Jackson
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The point here is that straight men, by definition, have nothing to cry about, ever—since, after all, the hold all the cards in contemporary society. What's bizarre is that the author of these words spent forty years of her life married (happily, by all accounts, including her own) to a straight man. The only way to reconcile such rhetoric with her actual life and feelings is to recognize that Sedgwick truly is engaged in an act of performance here—playing a role, putting one over on us.
Bruce Bawer
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True material welfare is never inconsistent with performance of religious obligations.
Mahatma Gandhi
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God gets the easiest performance reviews.
Daryl Gregory