Quotes with high-performance

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  • Greg Anderson Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to.
    Greg Anderson
    American author (1947 - )
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  • William Faulkner The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
    William Faulkner
    American writer (1897 - 1962)
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  • Brian Tracy Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.
    Brian Tracy
    Canadian-American motivational public speaker and self-development aut (1944 - )
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  • Tennessee Williams A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
    Tennessee Williams
    American playwright (1911 - 1983)
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  • Bruce Lee As an instructor, you must be able to distinguish between poor performance caused by lack of ability or aptitude on the part of the student and poor performance caused by lack of effort. You should treat the first with patience and the latter with firmness. You must never apply sarcasm and ridicule.
    Source: Jeet Kune Do (1997) Part 5 On training in Jeet Kune Do
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Sam Walton High expectations are the key to everything.
    Sam Walton
    American businessman, founder Wal-Mart Stores (1918 - 1992)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson It is hard to go beyond your public. If they are satisfied with cheap performance, you will not easily arrive at better. If they know what is good, and require it. you will aspire and burn until you achieve it. But from time to time, in history, men are born a whole age too soon.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Albert Einstein And the high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule, or to impose himself in any other way.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • G.W.F. Hegel As high as mind stands above nature, so high does the state stand above physical life. Man must therefore venerate the state as a secular deity. The march of God in the world, that is what the State is.
    G.W.F. Hegel
    German philosopher (1770 - 1831)
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  • Al Sharpton During my 2004 presidential campaign, I was fond of saying that it was high time for the Christian right to meet the right Christians.
    Al Sharpton
    American civil rights activist, Baptist minister and talk show host (1954 - )
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  • Bob Beauprez Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Ann Bancroft Getting through high school and college was one of my greatest achievements.
    Ann Bancroft
    American author, teacher, adventurer (1955 - )
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  • Jack Kinder High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
    Jack Kinder
     
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  • Katherine Mansfield I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
    Katherine Mansfield
    New Zealand-born British Author (1888 - 1923)
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  • Charles Sumner I have never known a man who was sensual in his youth, who was high-minded when old.
    Charles Sumner
    American politician and U.S. Senator (1811 - 1874)
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  • Harold S. Geneen I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises - but only performance is reality.
    Harold S. Geneen
    American Accountant, Industrialist, CEO, ITT (1910 - 1997)
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  • Mary Decker Slaney I've always got such high expectations for myself. I'm aware of them, but I can't relax them.
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  • Harold S. Geneen In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.
    Harold S. Geneen
    American Accountant, Industrialist, CEO, ITT (1910 - 1997)
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  • Henry David Thoreau In the long run you hit only what you aim at. Therefore, though you should fail immediately, you had better aim at something high.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Harold S. Geneen 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 S. Geneen
    American Accountant, Industrialist, CEO, ITT (1910 - 1997)
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