Quotes with non-performance

Quotes 161 till 180 of 180.

  • Ben Bernanke To the extent that bank panics interfere with normal flows of credit, they may affect the performance of the real economy.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Cass Sunstein Trump is more performance artist than zealot. But he's finding enemies everywhere, whether they are judges of Mexican ancestry, parents of those killed in war, the current president, or children of immigrants. Whether or not he has a sense of decency, he is in grave danger of losing it.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Beth Brooke We all know business financial performance improves when more women are in senior levels of management and leadership.
    Beth Brooke
    American businesswoman and athelete (1959 - )
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  • Ann Macbeth We are here predominantly to support independent filmmakers and their needs. We are also here to assist people actually in their production, non-commercial people in their production.
    Ann Macbeth
    British embroiderer, designer, teacher and author (1875 - 1948)
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  • Abdullah Ahmad Badawi We have followed a path of moderation, development is our priority, national unity, good community relations, Muslims and non Muslims, this is what has given us the advantage.
    Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
    Malaysian politician (1939 - )
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  • Thomas Hardy Well: what we gain by science is, after all, sadness, as the Preacher saith. The more we know of the laws and nature of the Universe the more ghastly a business we perceive it all to be - and the non-necessity of it.
    Thomas Hardy
    British writer and poet (1840 - 1928)
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  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.
    Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
    German musician and composer
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  • Al Yankovic What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist's performance on whether or not they had a good seat?
    Al Yankovic
    American musician (1959 - )
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  • Aristotle What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Casey Affleck When a performance isn't working, it's usually because the actor is trying to do something and they're not able to express their idea very well. It's a muddled expression.
    Casey Affleck
    American actor and director (1975 - )
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  • Joe Paterno When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellency becomes a reality.
    Joe Paterno
    American Football coach
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  • Aaron Copland When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the non-musician primarily, of the listener who intends to retain his amateur status. It is the thought of just such a listener that excites the composer in me.
    Aaron Copland
    American composer and writer (1900 - 1990)
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  • Barry Ritholtz When markets are rallying, cash in the portfolio is a drag on performance, returning about zero.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Bruno Maag When we design for non-Latin, we always aim to create a rhythm and texture that is sympathetic so when you have the two scripts running side by side, they create, ideally, the same tonal value on the page.
    Bruno Maag
    Swiss type designer and businessman (1962 - )
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  • Ben Brantley Whether you like it or not, a performance's triumphs and belly flops come to seem excruciatingly intimate, as if you were somehow partly responsible for them.
    Ben Brantley
    American theater critic and journalist (1954 - )
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  • Billy Joel Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself.
    Billy Joel
    American singer-songwriter and pianist (1949 - )
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  • Barry Ritholtz You, your employer and your plan's investment managers fail to follow even the most basic rules of investing. You overtrade, chase performance, do not think long term. All of you - All Of You - have done a horrible job managing your retirement plans.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Thomas Alva Edison Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Ben Shapiro The argument that gay marriage doesn't affect straight marriages is a ridiculous red herring: Gay marriage affects society and law in dramatic ways. Religious groups will come under direct assault as federal and state governments move to strip them of their non-profit statuses if they refuse to perform gay marriages.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Simone Weil The payment of debts is necessary for social order. The non-payment is quite equally necessary for social order. For centuries humanity has oscillated, serenely unaware, between these two contradictory necessities.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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