Quotes About Exceptional Performance

#1. But exceptional performance depends not only on the groundwork we lay through Deliberate Practice; it also requires the right working conditions. And in contemporary workplaces, these are surprisingly hard to come by.

Susan Cain

#2. In retirement, Smith reflected on his exceptional performance, saying simply, I never stopped trying to become qualified for the job.

James C. Collins

#3. I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity, or exceptional performance by athletes and artists, we harbor a greater life than we know.

Jean Houston

#4. A distinguished cognitive neuroscientist confessed to me that, because of his religious upbringing, he could not get rid of psychoneural dualism. The idea that one ceases to be after death was too painful to him.

Mario Bunge

#5. Without the Fender bass, there'd be no rock n' roll or no Motown. The electric guitar had been waiting 'round since 1939 for a nice partner to come along. It became an electric rhythm section, and that changed everything.

Quincy Jones

#6. Laws and constitutions ought to be weighed ... to constitute that which is most conducing to the establishment of justice and liberty.

Algernon Sidney

#7. Occasionally, I would focus on a particular school project and become obsessed with, what seemed to my mother, to be trivial details instead of apportioning the time I spent on school work in a more efficient way.

Steven Chu

#8. Trust must be built day by day. It calls for consistency.

John C. Maxwell

#9. If a boy, if a man, asks you if you're all right and you say yes, he'll always believe you and get on with what he wants to do. It's just the way they're made.

Aidan Chambers

#10. Sometimes it's the person giving you the medicine who's making you sick.

Steve Maraboli

#11. You become like that, what you admire most. By admiring excellence and practicing, it can boost you to become excellent.

Mark LaMoure

#12. We like to test things ... no matter how good an idea sounds, test it first.

Henry W. Bloch

#13. Precious few are those who can live in the lap of luxury ... who can keep their moral, spiritual and financial equilibrium ... while balancing on the elevated tightrope of success. ... there is about one in a hundred who can dance to the tune of success without paying the piper named Compromise.

Charles R. Swindoll

#14. To be honest, I'm more of a sneaker person. My legs hurt if I wear heels for too long.

Kiesza

#15. If everything you say gets laughed at ...
then you become afraid of everyone ...
and are no longer able to speak ...
even knowing all that does is bother everyone ...
Your heart ...
... shuts down ...
And your words die ...

Natsuki Takaya

#16. Would yell if a person didn't coo and aww and tell her what a beautiful mother she would make and how her daughter would surely grow up to be just like her, by all the lucky stars.

Marissa Meyer

#17. She would give up her husband to regain her son.

Cayla Kluver

#18. Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.

Ralph Waldo Emerson