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John F. Kennedy, Introducing Pablo Casals at a White House dinner, November 1961, at which he performed publicly for the first t · Peter F. Drucker, People and Performance

The only unnatural sexual act is that which you cannot perform. – Alfred Kinsey
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform. – Theodore Harold White
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears. – Author Unknown
You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last. – Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. – Alfred North Whitehead
Engineers participate in the activities which make the resources of nature available in a form beneficial to man and provide systems which will perform optimally and economically. – L. M. K. Boelter
Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach. – William Ellery Channing
For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
God does not judge us by the multitude of works we perform, but how well we do the work that is ours to do. The happiness of too many days is often destroyed by trying to accomplish too much in one day. We would do well to follow a common rule for our daily lives--DO LESS, AND DO IT BETTER. – Dr. Dale E. Turner
He that promises most will perform least. – Gaelic Proverb
Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog. – Doug Larson
How you feel about your future determines how you perform today. – Brandon A. Trean
I cannot expect to perform the task with equal ability and success. – Martin Van Buren, taking over from Andrew Jackson in 1837
It was a false maxim of Domitian that he who would gain the people of Rome must promise all things and perform nothing. For when a man is known to be false in his word, instead of a column, which he might be by keeping it, for others to rest upon, he becomes a reed, which no man will vouchsafe to lean upon. Like a floating island, when we come next day to seek it, it is carried from the place we left it in, and, instead of earth to build upon, we find nothing but inconstant and deceiving waves. – Feltham
Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best. – Michael Johnson
Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best. – Michael Johnson
Men are not made religious by performing certain actions which are externally good, but they must first have righteous principles, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions. – Martin Luther
Never promise more than you can perform. – Publilius Syrus
Perform your long and heavy task with energy, treading the path to which Fate has been pleased to call you. – Alfred Victor Vigny
Put duties aside at least an hour before bed and perform soothing, quiet activities that will help you relax. – Dianne Hales
Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people. – Andr Dubus
That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved. – Unknown
The good devout man first makes inner preparation for the actions he has later to perform. His outward actions do not draw him into lust and vice rather it is he who bends them into the shape of reason and right judgement. Who has a stiffer battle to fight than the man who is striving to conquer himself. – Thomas a Kempis
The good devout man first makes inner preparation for the actions he has later to perform. His outward actions do not draw him into lust and vice; rather it is he who bends them into the shape of reason and right judgement. Who has a stiffer battle to fight than the man who is striving to conquer himself. – Thomas a Kempis
There is no legal obligation to perform impossibilities. – Publius Celsus

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