Performing Well Quotes

• Being able to improvise is the basis for creating all characters and situations, for everything to do with performing, really. And it's good therapy as well.

  Chris Kattan

  Character, Creating, Able

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If you want to know why your people are not performing well, step up to the mirror and take a peek.

  Ken Blanchard

  Smart, Mirrors, People

  Ken Blanchard (2010). “The Heart of a Leader”, p.52, David C Cook

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• I don't consider myself an artist necessarily, but craftsmen or people in the arts, their spiritualism is sort of when you're writing well or performing well or doing whatever you do well, there's an element of that that's either God-given, a talent that you're not necessarily responsible for.

  Al Franken

  Art, Writing, People

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• Selling, in particular, can be a challenge; many investors are tempted to become more optimistic when a security is performing well. This temptation must be resisted; tax considerations aside, when a security reaches full valuation, there is no longer a reason to own it.

  Seth Klarman

  Optimistic, Temptation, Challenges

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• My experiences taught me firsthand that when a person is not performing well, there are many possible reasons, some not of his own choosing.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Taught, Reason, Performing

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• I was having a conversation with one of my teammates and she asked me, "Aren't you so glad it's over? We don't have to compete anymore." I thought that was a strange comment but in that moment I realized that I was doing it for the right reasons. I wasn't looking at the Olympics to define me. I wasn't to arrive somewhere by performing well in a contest.

  Kelly Clark

  Teammate, Olympics, Strange

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• The cost of performing well in bad times can be relative underperformance in good times.

  Seth Klarman

  Cost, Investing, Good Times

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• Hungry children are distracted children. We want to make sure nothing gets in the way of our children performing well academically, including hunger.

  Arne Duncan

  Children, Want, Way

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• It's fun when you're winning and performing well, but it's also hard because now you get older, you got responsibilities.

  Rau'shee Warren

  Fun, Responsibility, Winning

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• Music is art, art is life, and we are who we are, and all of these aforementioned women, unless they should choose not to, will be performing well into the next many decades because they are great artists.

  Lara St. John

  Art, Who We Are, Next

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• Demanding immediate success invariably leads to playing the fads or fashions currently performing well rather than investing on a solid basis. A course of investment, once charted, should be given time to work out. Patience is a crucial but rare investment commodity.

  David Dreman

  Fashion, Work Out, Investing

  David Dreman (1998). “Contrarian Investment Strategies in the Next Generation”, p.243, Simon and Schuster

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• I love songwriting ! It's my Number One passion other than performing. Well, actually it's like wearing three different hats: songwriting, recording and performing. They're all completely different and draw on different types of skills. With recording, there are so many different phases of production, and you have to be very careful because you can polish it until it doesn't shine.

  Delbert McClinton

  Passion, Skills, Numbers

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