Quotes with high-performance

Quotes 61 till 80 of 484.

  • Barry Levinson Apparently nobody really read it, it was a cheap movie, it fit their schedule in terms of things so fine, let the guy make that high school comedy. I used to work with Mel Brooks so they figured oh it's going to be one of those really silly movies and that's how it got made.
    Barry Levinson
    American filmmaker, screenwriter, and actor (1942 - )
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  • Bjarke Ingels Architecture is restricted to such a limited vocabulary. A building is either a high-rise or a perimeter block or a town house.
    Bjarke Ingels
    Danish architect and businessman (1974 - )
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  • Adam Sedgwick As a system of philosophy it is not like the Tower of Babel, so daring its high aim as to seek a shelter against God's anger; but it is like a pyramid poised on its apex.
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  • Mark Twain As a thinker and planner the ant is the equal of any savage race of men; as a self-educated specialist in several arts she is the superior of any savage race of men; and in one or two high mental qualities she is above the reach of any man, savage or civilized!
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Henry David Thoreau As to conforming outwardly, and living your own life inwardly, I have not a very high opinion of that course.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Barry Ritholtz Asset managers have different approaches, and I don't wish to suggest there is only one way to run money. There are many ways one can attempt to reduce risk, improve performance, lower drawdowns and reduce volatility.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Caroline Lawrence At 16, when I was at Henry M. Gunn High School, I had a crush on the English teacher, and my grades improved dramatically. This great school had only 400 students, mostly children of Stanford professors, and it was more usual to have classes under one of the oak trees dotted around the campus than in the classroom.
    Caroline Lawrence
    English American author (1954 - )
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  • Bill Fagerbakke Athletics provided a life preserver for me, and that maybe kept me out of trouble. I never partied in high school. I mostly just dated.
    Bill Fagerbakke
    American actor (1957 - )
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  • Bill James Baseball would be a quite remarkable activity if it was the one place in the world where your co-workers didn't have any impact on how productive you were. But in fact, baseball is a high-stress occupation, and those sort of stress-inducing activities... just have a huge impact on how the team functions, I think.
    Bill James
    American baseball writer, historian, and statistician (1949 - )
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  • John Dryden Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • A. E. Housman Be still, my soul, be still; the arms you bear are brittle,
    Earth and high heaven are fixt of old and founded strong.
    A Shropshire Lad (1896) No. 48, st. 1
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Ernest Hemingway Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Homer But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions.
    Homer
    Greek poet (850 - 750)
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  • Ronald Reagan But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Saskya Pandita By depending on the great, The small may rise high. See: the little plant ascending the tall tree Has climbed to the top.
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  • Brit Morin By the time I was a senior in high school, I knew I wanted to move to Silicon Valley and learn more about computers and the Internet. I just fell in love with technology and the potential of everything the Internet had to offer.
    Brit Morin
    American entrepreneur (1985 - )
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  • Arne Jacobsen Carrying out the thing, getting it to the point when one might say: There, now it is good - that point is hard to reach. Often, one sets very high goals for oneself. Perhaps too high.
    Arne Jacobsen
    Danish architect and designer (1902 - 1971)
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  • Bob Keeshan Children don't drop out of high school when they are 16, they do so in the first grade and wait 10 years to make it official.
    As quoted in Commentary: Pre-school Rankings by Susan Hoff KERA Public Newsroom (6 September 2007)
    Bob Keeshan
    American television producer and actor (1927 - 2004)
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  • Sir Philip Sidney Come Sleep! Oh Sleep, the certain knot of peace, the baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, the poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, the indifferent judge between the high and low.
    Sir Philip Sidney
    British Author, Courtier (1554 - 1586)
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  • Dean William R. Inge 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.
    Dean William R. Inge
    Dean of St Paul's, London (1860 - 1954)
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