Quotes with top-performing

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  • Aristotle Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Campbell Brown More and more parents and voters have rejected the teachers' union antiquated, top down, one-size-fits-all approach to education and continue to elect candidates who embrace reform that celebrates students and empowers parents.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Uta Hagen More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.
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  • Bradley Joseph Musically I try to connect a common bridge between such exhilarating feelings as performing at the Acropolis, to the emotions each and every one of us feel everyday. In the end, a good melody will always stand the test of time.
    On composing Indie Journal Interview
    Bradley Joseph
    American composer and producer
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  • Bonnie Tyler My father used to tape 'Top of the Pops' for me every Sunday, and I would sit in my bedroom, write down the lyrics of all of my favourite songs, and sing along. I was always singing in my bedroom with a hairbrush.
    Bonnie Tyler
    Welsh singer (1951 - )
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  • Bubba Watson My goal at every tournament is to finish top 18. At the end of the year if I could finish every tournament top 18, that would be pretty good.
    Bubba Watson
    American professional golfer (1978 - )
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  • Bill Rodgers My guess is many top athletes, distance runners included, use performance-enhancing drugs, enough so that the problem must be tackled.
    Bill Rodgers
    American marathon athlete (1947 - )
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  • Jackie Chan My skull, my eyes, my nose three times, my jaw, my shoulder, my chest, two fingers, a knee, everything from the top of my head to the bottom of my feet. [Listing what body parts he has broken]
    Jackie Chan
    Actor, stuntman and kung fu expert from Hong Kong (1954 - )
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  • B. C. Forbes No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution. Every man who gets anywhere does so because he has first firmly resolved to progress in the world and then has enough stick-to-it-tiveness to transform his resolution into reality. Without resolution, no man can win any worthwhile place among his fellow men.
    B. C. Forbes
    American Publisher (1880 - 1954)
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  • Barry Ritholtz No one knows what the top-performing asset class will be next year. Lacking this prescience, your next-best solution is to own all of the classes and rebalance regularly.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson No orator can top the one who can give good nicknames.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Italo Calvino Novels as dull as dishwater, with the grease of random sentiments floating on top.
    Italo Calvino
    Italian writer (1923 - 1985)
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  • Blake Lewis Now I'm 'Blake Lewis' to the world, but I will always still be Bshorty from Bothell...I've never looked at it like a competition so I think I've won regardless. I won when I got to the top ten; I've already reached my goal.
    In interviews Hot Guy of the Week: American Idols Blake Lewis. U
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  • Barack Obama Now, anybody who thinks that we can move this economy forward with just a few folks at the top doing well, hoping that it's going to trickle down to working people who are running faster and faster just to keep up, you'll never see it.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Bob Richards One of the great lessons I've learned in athletics is that you've got to discipline your life. No matter how good you may be, you've got to be willing to cut out of your life those things that keep you from going to the top.
    Bob Richards
    American athlete (1926 - )
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  • Bill Ford One of the things I've had the advantage of, growing up and being close to the top management of this company and other companies for most of my life, is seeing how CEOs start to believe in their own infallibility. And that really scares me.
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  • Margaret Thatcher One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you - suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, ''Well, I'll have a go, too.''
    Margaret Thatcher
    British Prime Minister (1979-1990) (1925 - 2013)
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  • Bernard Ebbers Our communications services revenue growth is being driven by continued strong top-line performance in data, Internet and international - three of the fastest growing and most profitable areas within communications services.
    Bernard Ebbers
    Canadian businessman (1941 - 2020)
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  • Camille Paglia Our major universities are now stuck with an army of pedestrian, toadying careerists, Fifties types who wave around Sixties banners to conceal their record of ruthless, beaver-like tunneling to the top.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Francis Beaumont Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top.
    Francis Beaumont
    English writer and poet (1584 - 1616)
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