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Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
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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.
Jeet Kune Do (1997) Part 5 On training in Jeet Kune Do -
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.
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The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996) p. 51 -
I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
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I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises - but only performance is reality.
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In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.
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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.
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Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it will be stilled only by non-hatred - this is the law of eternal.
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There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.
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A hedge fund manager whose clients demand monthly performance reports has different needs than any individual investors with a 20-year time horizon. The needs of that long-term investor differ markedly from someone who is retiring in three years.
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A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.
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A screen actor is compensated in the knowledge that millions will see his performance at one time, where only hundreds will see it on the stage.
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A typical leader has - a natural tendency is to be defensive in the face of a crisis. The first reaction is to blame someone - or something - else. Often, the blame is aimed at something abstract or non-controllable, which often has nothing to do with the crisis but is adjacent to whatever is going on, so it's an easy target.
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All you owe the public is a good performance.
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America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers.
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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.
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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.
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An author who gives a manager or publisher any rights in his work except those immediately and specifically required for its publication or performance is for business purposes an imbecile.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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