Judah Smith
Pastor
"Our righteousness doesn't depend on our present performance but on Jesus' finished performance."
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Performances
254 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Douglas Smith
Historian
"PR is performance recognition"
Stella Adler
Actress, Director
"The only excuse for not coming to a class or a performance is death."
Timothy Keller
Pastor, Author
"Secularism and Religion are both all about your personal performance. The Gospel is the performance of another applied to you."
Peter Drucker
Management Consultant, Author
"You cannot build performance on weaknesses. You can build only on strengths."
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"The best way to improve mental performance, is to improve physical performance"
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"[On Katharine Hepburn's stage performance:] She ran the whole gamut of emotions, from A to B."
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"The soil says, don't bring me your need, bring me your seed."
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"There are no prizes for average performance."
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"How you measure the performance of your managers directly affects the way they act."
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"I always wanted, and still aspire, to be something more than just one thing, just one performance."
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"The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth."
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"Mastery has been achieved when one neither makes a mistake nor hesitates in the performance."
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"What can I contribute that will significantly affect the performance and the results of the institution I serve?"
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"The supreme misfortune is when theory outstrips performance"
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"God is more concerned about your heart than your performance. If your heart is right, your performance will eventually catch up."
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"I can't let in the light.It will destroy my performance like light destroys film"
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"An ounce of image is worth a pound of performance"
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"I make 50 cents for showing up... and the other 50 cents is based on my performance."
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"The script and the performances and the style all clicked."
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"The life of every man is an endlessly repeated performance of the life of man."
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"All promise outruns performance."
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"Good acting is consistency of performance."
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"I don't want to talk about the specifics of other people's performances compared with my own. I'd never do that."
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"An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment."
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