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Letter "P" » performance
«It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises but only performance is reality.»
Author: Harold S. Geneen
(Businessman)
| About:
Performance,
Words
| Keywords:
explanations, immutable, performance, promises
«I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity, or exceptional performance by athletes and artists, we harbor a greater life than we know. There we go beyond those limited and limiting patterns of body, emotions, volition, and understanding that have been keeping us in dry-dock. Instead we become available to our capacity for a larger life in body, mind, and spirit. In this state we know great torrents of delight.»
Author: Jean Houston
| Keywords:
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«He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in performance of it.»
«Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.»
Author: Frank Zappa
(Composer, Guitarist, Satirist, Song Writer)
| Keywords:
Air In, performance, sculpted, sculpting, sculpture, sculptures, Something in the air, type
«Leadership is not magnetic personality/that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making friends and influencing people /that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.»
Author: Peter F. Drucker
(Educator, Writer)
| Keywords:
as well, building, flatteries, flattery, glib, higher, influencing, just as, lifting, limitations, magnetic, normal, performance, personality, raising, sights, standard, The Building, tongue, vision
«How much we like ourselves governs our performance.»
«It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (languor), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.»
Author: Buddha
| About:
Death and dying,
Health,
Life
| Keywords:
areas, board, Board of, decisions, in particular, languor, performance, relate, surprising, welter, weltering
«My great wish is to go on in a strict but silent performance of my duty; to avoid attracting notice, and to keep my name out of the newspapers»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
attracting, newspapers, notice, performance, strict
«It provokes the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him and it mars him; it sets him on and it takes him off.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
equivocator, lechery, Mars, performance, provokes, sets, set off
«It provokes the desire but it take away the performance.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
performance, provokes, take away
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