Top 100 Performs Quotes
#1. The body performs better when the athlete lets it go than when he tries to drive it.
Bruce Lee
#3. Out of these troubled times, our fifth objective- a new world order-can emerge ... We are now in sight of a United Nations that performs as envisioned by its founders.
George H. W. Bush
#4. I love the power of the musician who composes and performs. I envy their ability to put a nugget of truth in three minutes of sweat and emotional outpouring, colored entirely from their thoughts.
Kim Harrison
#5. Neuroplasticity research showed that the brain changes its very structure with each different activity it performs, perfecting its circuits so it is better suited to the task at hand.
Naveen Jain
#6. The soul must stretch over the cosmogonic abysses, while the body performs its daily duties.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#7. The greatest work God ever performs was not the creation of the universe out of nothing, but is the new creation of saints out of sinners.
Steven J. Lawson
#8. One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently.
Manuel Puig
#9. You that performs all day
When will you remove that mask.
Gabriel Iqbal
#10. The commandment to refrain from placing blame on our parents, deeply imprinted in us by our upbringing, skillfully performs the function of hiding essential truths from us.
Alice Miller
#11. The mark of the man of the world is absence of pretension. He does not make a speech; he takes a low business-tone, avoids all brag, is nobody, dresses plainly, promises not at all, performs much, speaks in monosyllables, hugs his fact.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#12. He does. All that He has decreed He performs. "But our God is in the heavens: He hath done whatsoever He hath pleased" (Psa. 115:3); and why has He? Because "there is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the LORD" (Pro 21:30).
Arthur W. Pink
#13. A hero is an ordinary person who performs an ordinary task In an extraordinary situation.
Ingibjorg N. Frid
#14. When you first hear about this guy (Stan Musial), you say, 'it can't be true.' When you first meet him you say, 'It must be an act.' But as you watch him and watch him and see how he performs and how he comports himself you say, 'He's truly one of a kind.' There will never be another like him.
Jack Buck
#15. If a householder is a genuine devotee, he performs his duties without attachment; he surrenders the fruit of his work to God - his gain or loss, his pleasure or pain. Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (Abridged)
Ramakrishna
#16. In proportion as the machine is improved and performs man's work with an ever increasing rapidity and exactness, the labourer, instead of prolonging his former rest times, redoubles his ardour, as if he wished to rival the machine. O, absurd and murderous competition!
Paul Lafargue
#17. All work which is necessary ennobles him who performs it. Only one thing is shameful - to contribute nothing to the community.
Adolf Hitler
#19. I hold her hair in one hand and massage the back of her neck with my other while she performs what can only be described as an oral pole dance on my cock.
Georgia Cates
#20. A coward purposely performs poorly to blame others for their own failures.
Ben Tolosa
#21. God really performs the miracle of multiplying our time, but only if we give it to him first.
Peter Kreeft
#22. On the page, punctuation performs its grammatical function, but in the mind of the reader it does more than that. It tells the reader how to hum the tune.
Lynne Truss
#23. He that is warm for truth, and fearless in its defense, performs one of the duties of a good man; he strenghtens his own conviction, and guards others from delusion; but steadiness of belief, and boldness of profession, are yet only part of the form of godliness.
Samuel Johnson
#24. At Newfoundland, it is said, that dried cod performs the office of money
Jean-Baptiste Say
#25. Neither our psychology nor that of the unbelievers can impart life to them. Unless the Holy Spirit Himself performs the work, all is vain.
Watchman Nee
#26. The science of mathematics performs more than it promises, but the science of metaphysics promises more than it performs.
Charles Caleb Colton
#27. As a person who performs on stage, it's good to be emotionally open. If you mess with someone when they are in that state, it's like you're messing with an animal when it's eating.
Fiona Apple
#28. Revolution cannot really be conquered... If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow. Tomorrow performs its work irresistibly, and it does it from today.
Victor Hugo
#29. Tis immortality, 'tis that alone, Amid life's pains, abasements, emptiness, The soul can comfort, elevate, and fill. That only, and that amply this performs.
Edward Young
#30. Jane easily shifts among activities - testing for discovery, pinpointing, locating, determining significance, repairing, troubleshooting, and testing to learn. As long as she continues to serve her customers, it doesn't really matter which task she performs at any given time.
Gerald M. Weinberg
#31. When you recite you're giving a performance, in the way that an actor or a singer performs, and some poets are not interested in doing that, maybe because they're writing for a readership as opposed to an audience, or because they see poetry as a very private art.
James Arthur
#32. I love to dwell on the thought that the artist is next in divinity to the saint. He, like the saint, performs miracles.
Stanley Spencer
#33. God is a universal iconic performer, every single eye pays attention when He performs His word.
Euginia Herlihy
#34. A designated patient 'carries' the group's dysfunction. A designated issue performs the same service for an individual, dominating our psyches so that other troubles can go unnoticed.
Martha Beck
#35. The real self of an artiste lies in art, so when an artiste performs, all the pain, trauma and tension get released through art, be it dancing, painting, singing, writing or even martial arts.
Mrinalini Sarabhai
#36. The sum of the inner movements which a man finds easy and as a consequence performs gracefully and with pleasure, one calls his soul; if these inner movements are plainly difficult and an effort for him, he is considered soulless.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#37. Memory: what wonders it performs in preserving and storing up things gone by - or rather, things that are
Plutarch
#38. So the animal finally performs in that situation only the fitting act.
Edward Thorndike
#39. You say 'I' and you are proud of this word. But greater than this- although you will not believe in it - is your body and its great intelligence, which does not say 'I' but performs 'I'.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#40. The challenge of every team is to build a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another because the question is usually not how well each person performs, but how well they work together.
Vince Lombardi
#41. Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.
William Faulkner
#43. ...in the tiny 'unhistoric acts' of goodness which she performs within her limited circle a ripple of influence has been set in motion which may eventually lap the edge of the world.
Holly Chamberlin
#44. The creature we finally ended up building is biomechanical to the extent that he has physically grown into, or maybe even out of, his seat, - he's integrated totally into the function he performs.
H.R. Giger
#45. A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties.
Harriet Martineau
#46. My writing partner, Nicki, and I became obsessed with a monologist who performs unscripted shows equipped with nothing more than scribbled bullet points and a glass of water. We wrote him a fan letter and found ourselves sharing lunch and eventually a friendship.
Emma McLaughlin
#47. He who performs his duty in a station of great power must needs incur the utter enmity of many, and the high displeasure of more.
Francis Atterbury
#48. I only want to make movies I want to see. That may mean my career is somewhat limited, but that is my version of integrity. No matter how it performs or how it's received, I can be okay with it.
Ryan Phillippe
#49. The two party electoral system performs the essential function of helping to legitimate the existing social order.
Michael Parenti
#50. For he that does good, having the unlimited power to do evil, deserves praise not only for the good which he performs, but for the evil which he forbears.
Walter Scott
#51. We have two chief survivors of those ancient schools: the Bene Gesserit and the Spacing Guild. The Guild, so we think, emphasizes almost pure mathematics. Bene Gesserit performs another function.
Frank Herbert
#52. I love Jonathan Richman - I love a lot of his music, and the thing I really like about him is his attitude. He seems very happy, and the way he performs is like, 'Don't worry, everybody, just get into it. I'm just having fun; I like when you guys are having fun.'
Mac DeMarco
#53. Almost 70 years have gone by, and I've still got that feeling when I write ... Writing, for me, is still it. It has always been the basis of everything I do. I'm a writer who performs, not a performer who writes. I love the act of writing. It's still a thrill for me.
Clive James
#54. It is because so much happens. Too much happens. That's it. Man performs, engenders, so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything. That's it. That's what is so terrible. That he can bear anything, anything.
William Faulkner
#55. 'Man and Superman,' first performed in 1905, is by common consent one of George Bernard Shaw's greatest and most significant plays, yet hardly anybody performs it today, for the understandable reason that an uncut performance runs for about five hours.
Terry Teachout
#56. Am I to admire a man who injures me in an awkward and mistaken attempt to protect me, and to despise a man who to earn a good income performs for me some great and lasting service?
George J. Stigler
#57. The keen spirit
Seizes the prompt occasion, makes the thought
Start into instant action, and at once
Plans and performs, resolves and executes!
Hannah More
#58. 14You are the God who performs miracles; you display your power among the peoples.
Anonymous
#59. You are always concentrated on the inner thing. The moment one becomes aware of the crowd, performs for the crowd, it is spectacle.
Jean Cocteau
#60. The country blacksmith who employs no journeyman is never conscious of any conflict between the capital invested in his anvil, hammer and bellows, and the labor he performs with them, because in fact, there is none.
Leland Stanford
#61. Management has authority only as long as it performs.
Peter Drucker
#62. There is a special aura about artists who take their visions to the highest pinnacles of success ... I get very excited about the magnitude of the aura I see, when Alan performs.
Bill Aucoin
#63. The German sociologist Niklas Luhmann once observed that the simple act of asking yourself, "Where did I put my keys?" performs unexpected magic: it transforms the world into a catalog of possible key locations.1 Under the couch, somewhere the dog or the baby moved
Ian Bogost
#64. A musician's biography is written wherever he performs; everybody hears what he is playing.
Sri Chinmoy
#65. God moves in mysterious ways
His wonders to performs
William Cowper
#66. You could live without the opera singer, but not without the services of the baker. On this ground you might say that the baker performs a greater service; but no lover of music would agree.
Bertrand Russell
#67. Reason is valuable," he said, "only when it performs against the wordless physical background of the universe." Her
Frank Herbert
#68. In book subjects a student can only do a student's work. All that can be measured is how well he learns, rather than how well he performs. All he can show is promise.
Peter Drucker
#69. Ladies, this is what scares me. When a horse is finally tamed and trained, bearing the burden of saddle and human expectations alike, she is called broken. It is only then that she performs the duties expected of her.
Jess Connolly
#70. No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure.
James K. Polk
#71. Sometimes an actor performs a character, but sometimes an actor just performs. With writing, I don't think it's performing a character, really, if the character you're performing is yourself. I don't see that as playing a role. It's just appearing in public.
Joan Didion
#72. I believe that any doctor that performs an abortion, I would advocate that any doctor that performs an abortion, should be criminally charged for doing so.
Rick Santorum
#73. In spiritual things, it is God who performs all things for you. Rest in Him, then.
Charles Spurgeon
#74. The moral pleasure in art, as well as the moral service that art performs, consists in the intelligent gratification of consciousness.
Susan Sontag
#75. An ethical idealist, a person whom embraces the honorable philosophy of ethical idealism, performs acts that are honest, pure, and righteous regardless of their fearfulness.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#76. I will do as much as I can, says one. Any fool can do that. He that believes in Christ does what he cannot do, attempts the impossible, and performs it.
Charles Spurgeon
#77. getting better is not about just 'willing' better performance. It's about becoming someone who performs better, and performs differently.
Henry Cloud
#79. The artist performs only one part of the creative process. The onlooker completes it, and it is the onlooker who has the last word.
Marcel Duchamp
#80. When a musical act performs, the black audience goes crazy for all the stuff, the album cuts, everything. White audiences, they're nice and all, but they're not going to lose it until they get the hits. Comedy is the same thing.
Chris Rock
#81. Hunger is almost like something the West does. It's almost like the direct result of the way the West performs.
Bill Nighy
#82. Controlling thoughts and behaviors is one of the tasks that System 2 performs.
Daniel Kahneman
#83. The engineer performs many public functions from which he gets only philosophical satisfactions. Most people do not know it, but he is an economic and social force.
Herbert Hoover
#85. What is the function that a clergyman performs in the world? Answer: He gets his living by assuring idiots that he can save them from an imaginary hell.
H.L. Mencken
#87. The Analytical Engine, on the contrary, can either add, subtract, multiply or divide with equal facility; and performs each of these four operations in a direct manner, without the aid of any of the other three.
Ada Lovelace
#88. He is the completed Man who, from his completeness, performs, with his Mastership, the work of a slave.
Idries Shah
#89. Everyone performs bad actions ... A bad person is someone who does not lament his bad actions.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#90. A man's body is like a circus. You can swing off his trapeze arms, lay your head on thighs like fresh-blown balloons while his cock performs tricks, soft to hard, a burst like a cannon if you treat him right.
Bojan Veljanov
#91. Literature is the only art in which the audience performs the score.
Kurt Vonnegut
#92. Each individual in fact has moral responsibility for the acts which he personally performs; no one can be exempted from this responsibility, and on the basis of it everyone will be judged by God himself.
Pope John Paul II
#93. James Taylor is the kind of person I always thought the word 'folksinger' referred to. He writes and sings songs that are reflections of his own life, and performs in them in his own style. All of his performances are marked by an eloquent simplicity.
Jon Landau
#94. Nature gropes and blunders and performs the crudest acts. There is no steady advance upward. There is no design.
Oliver Sacks
#95. The mind of a poet often performs miracles-a few coarse-grained words, apprehended become bullets and roses.
Amado V. Hernandez
#96. Your authority extends only to the performance of action; obtaining or not obtaining the fruit is never within your control; therefore, do not be one who performs action with a motive that a specific fruit should be obtained; nor insist on not-performing action.
William Milcetich
#97. I am fully persuaded, what God's promises, He faithfully performs.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#98. In the case of an artistic practice that performs female narcissism..., the threat lies in its making superfluous the arbiters of artistic value. Already presuming her desirability, [she] obviates the modern critical system; loving herself, she needs no confirmation of her artistic 'value
Amelia Jones
#99. In the pseudoiterative, one performs the ritual of the day attentive to both the joy of the familiar and the shiver of the accidental.
Kim Stanley Robinson
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