Performances Quotes - Page 34

• These data suggest very strongly that participating in the playing of violent video games by children and youth increase aggressive thought and behavior; increase antisocial behavior and delinquency; engender poor school performance; desensitize the game player to violence.

  Leland Yee

  Children, School, Player

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• Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.

  John Dryden

  Resolve

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• Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious.

  Georg Simmel

  Average, Personality, Mysterious

  Georg Simmel, Otthein Rammstedt (2008). “Gesamtausgabe”

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• Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty. Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms. To observe morality is to attain mastery over our mind and our passions. So doing, we know ourselves.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Passion, Men, Civilization

  Mahatma Gandhi (2010). “Hind Swaraj”, p.49, Rajpal & Sons

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• We writers dream of a future where actors are mostly computer generated and their performances can be adjusted, by us, on a laptop, alone.

  Tina Fey

  Dream, Writing, Laptops

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• There was nothing wrong with the performance, apart from throwing away the game.

  Glenn Hoddle

  Football, Games, Throwing

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• The boys performance was so good that I've run out of expletives to describe it.

  Micky Mellon

  Football, Running, Boys

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• The major difference between the 'best' and the 'average' is that the 'best' get as much pleasure from practice as performance.

  Benjamin Zander

  Teaching, Learning, Practice

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• In the performance of our responsibilities, I have learned that when we heed a silent prompting and act upon it without delay, our Heavenly Father will guide our footsteps and bless our lives and the lives of others. I know of no experience more sweet or feelings more precious than to heed a prompting, only to discover that the Lord has answered another's prayer through you.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Sweet, Prayer, Father

  FaceBook post by Thomas S Monson from Mar 25, 2016

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• Physiologists and high-performance trainers understand now that the concept of 110 percent is no longer a smart way to train. Fitness is like the blade of a knife; you want to sharpen it without ruining the blade. Give 110 percent, and you won't build your body up, but actually break it down. And be no good to yourself or anyone else.

  Sally Jenkins

  Smart, Knives, Giving

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• I believe we should try to move away from the vocabulary and attitudes which shape the stereotyping of developed and developing country approaches to human rights issues. We are collective custodians of universal human rights standards, and any sense that we fall into camps of "accuser" and "accused" is absolutely corrosive of our joint purposes. The reality is that no group of countries has any grounds for complacency about its own human rights performance and no group of countries does itself justice by automatically slipping into the "victim" mode.

  Mary Robinson

  Country, Attitude, Believe

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• The reality is that no group of countries has any grounds for complacency about its own human rights performance and no group of countries does itself justice by automatically slipping into the "victim" mode . . . .

  Kofi Annan

  Country, Reality, Rights

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• We attend to his later performances as a dramatic actor with respect, but watching the nondancing, nonsinging Astaire is like watching a grounded skylark.

  Fred Astaire

  Respect, Actors, Dramatic

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• The sacred rites, although not instituted specifically for proving the truth of the dogmas of the Catholic Faith incontrovertibly, are effectively the living voice of Catholic Truth, the oft-sounded expression of it. For that very reason the true Church of Christ, even as she shows great zeal to guard inviolate those forms of divine worship - since they are hallowed and are not to be changed - sometimes grants or permits something novel in the performance of them in certain instances. This she does especially when they are in conformity with their venerable antiquity.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Voice, Expression, Catholic

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• Great achievement often happens when our backs are up against the wall. Pressure can actually enhance your performance.

  Robin Sharma

  Wall, Accomplishment, Achievement

  Robin Sharma (2006). “The Greatness Guide: One of the World's Most Successful Coaches Shares His Secrets for Personal and Business Mastery”, p.20, Jaico Publishing House

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• In such a performance you may lay the foundation of national happiness only in religion, not by leaving it doubtful "whether morals can exist without it," but by asserting that without religion morals are the effects of causes as purely physical as pleasant breezes and fruitful seasons.

  Benjamin Rush

  Leaving, Religion, Foundation

  Benjamin Rush (1951). “Letters: 1793-1813”

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• If the maintenance of public credit, then, be truly important, the next enquiry which suggests itself is, by what means it is to be effected? The ready answer to which question is, by good faith, by a punctual performance of contracts. States, like individuals, who observe their engagements, are respected and trusted: while the reverse is the fate of those who pursue an opposite conduct.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Mean, Fate, Opposites

  Nancy Spannaus, Christopher White, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas More, Henry VIII (2015). “The Political Economy of the American Revolution”, p.346, Executive Intelligence Review

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• O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-work, and how ill requited! Why should our endeavor be so loved, and the performance so loathed?

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Agents, World

  'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 5, sc. 10, l. [36]

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• It is appearances, characteristics and performance that make a man love an airplane, and they, are what put emotion into one. You love a lot of things if you live around them, but there isn't any woman and there isn't any horse, nor any before nor any after, that is as lovely as a great airplane, and men who love them are faithful to them even though they leave them for others. A man has only one virginity to lose in fighters, and if it is a lovely plane he loses it to, there his heart will ever be.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Horse, Heart, Airplane

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• Flying prevails whenever a man and his airplane are put to a test of maximum performance.

  Richard Bach

  Airplane, Men, Flying

  Richard Bach (2012). “A Gift of Wings”, p.209, Dell

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• If, then, the courts of justice are to be considered as the bulwarks of a limited Constitution against legislative encroachments, this consideration will afford a strong argument for the permanent tenure of judicial offices, since nothing will contribute so much as this to that independent spirit in the judges which must be essential to the faithful performance of so arduous a duty.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Strong, Independent, Justice

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay, Henry Barton Dawson (1864). “The Fœderalist: A Collection of Essays, Written in Favor of the New Constitution, as Agreed Upon by the Fœderal Convention, September 17, 1787. Reprinted from the Original Text. With an Historical Introduction and Notes”, p.544, New York : C. Scribner ; London : Sampson Low

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• 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 Geneen

  Business, Management, Economics

  "Managing". Book by Harold Geneen, Chapter Six (Leadership), p. 89,

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• Life is rather like acting lessons while you are on stage giving a public performance!

  Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet

  Art, Giving, Acting

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• We were on a tour, and there were some chord formations that were tough for me to play when I was a kid...it had become apparent that there was some stuff I wanted to do that [would require me] to learn how to do that. So I wrote the song and used some of these chord formations so I would have to play them. I thought it would be a great teaching vehicle for a while, and it was, but it ended up as a performance song.

  Jorma Kaukonen

  Song, Teaching, Writing

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• Perfection does not come from belief or faith. Talk does not count for anything. Parrots can do that. Perfection comes through the disinterested performance of action.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Perfection, Doe, Belief

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1549, Manonmani Publishers

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