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"To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language." »George Santayana
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"Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it." »Dr. Viktor E Frankl
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"A CEO's performance is as good as the performance of his middle managers" »Med Jones
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"The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness; a non performance of that which is pretended to be performed, at the same time that one is giving loud pledges of performance. The balking of the intellect, is comedy and it announces itself in the pleasant spasms we call laughter." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific." »Jane Wagner
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"All my life I wanted to be someone I guess I should have been more specific." »Jane Wagner
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"As a doctor, as a man of science, I can tell you there is no such thing as curses Everything just happens as a question of probability. The statistical likelihood of a specific event." »Andrew Schneider
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"performance is your reality. Forget everything else." »Harold Geneen
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"Whatever else can be said about sex, it cannot be called a dignified performance." »Helen Lawrenson
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"We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique." »John Dewey
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"He who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance." »Jean Jacques Rousseau
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"Remember this-that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life." »Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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"The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities." »Daniel Day Lewis
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"My specific goal is to revolutionize the future of the species. Mathematics is just another way of predicting the future." »Ralph Abraham
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"We all use our imagination every day. However, most of us are unaware that what we envision affects every cell of our bodies and every aspect of our performance." »Marilyn King
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"What do you gargle with? Pebbles? (to singer Tom Jones after a 1969 Royal Variety performance)" »Prince Phillip
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"Sustaining high business performance is a product of continuous strategic alignment" »Med Jones
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"The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and by your everyday attitude that you are wholeheartedly supporting them." »Harold S. Geneen
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"What, then is our duty It is to carefully distinguish the historic moment in which we live and to consciously assign our small energies to a specific battlefield. The more we are in phase with the current which leads the way, the more we aid man in his difficult, uncertain, danger-fraught ascent toward salvation." »Nikos Kazantzakis
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"Over-seriousness is a warning sign for mediocrity and bureaucratic thinking. People who are seriously committed to mastery and high performance are secure enough to lighten up." »Michael J. Gelb
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"What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. ... If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance." »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. . . . Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer." »Denis Watley
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"Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him." »Cicero
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"It is important to fully understand the performance variables, benefits, and risks of each investment and why you'd want to add each investment to your portfolio in amounts that fit your risk appetite" »Med Jones
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"Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance." »W. R. Inge
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"The Queen Mother, with a lifetime's popularity, seemed incapable of a bad performance as national grandmother-warm, smiling, human, understanding, she embodied everything the public could want of its grandmother." »John Pearson
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"The term "learning disability" has appeal because it implies a specific neurological condition for which no one can be held particularly responsible, and yet it escapes the stigma of mental retardation. There is no implication of neglect, emotional disturbance, or improper training or education, nor does it imply a lack of motivation on the part of the child. For these cosmetic reasons, it is a rather nice term to have around." »U. S. Government Study On The Labeling Of Children
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"Pain (any pain--emotional, physical, mental) has a message. The information it has about our life can be remarkably specific, but it usually falls into one of two categories We would be more alive if we did more of this, and, Life would be more lovely if we did less of that. Once we get the pain's message, and follow its advice, the pain goes away." »Peter McWilliams
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"It is not possible to have a politics-free organization. The desire for power and control is part of the human nature. Successful business leaders know how to leverage organizational politics by setting performance-oriented instead of resources-oriented political rewards." »Med Jones
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"My strong point, if I have a strong point, is performance. I always do more than I say. I always produce more than I promise." »Richard Milhous Nixon
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