Underperformed Quotes

#1. The courts don't remove children from their home because the child underperformed at school or required extra long walks or a game of basketball in order to blow off the steam all 5-year-olds have. It's because the parents were unfit, not the kids.

Angela Featherstone

#2. Overall, a portfolio of the "good to great" companies looks like it would have underperformed the S&P 500.

Steven D. Levitt

#3. Part of the function of memory is to forget; the omni-retentive mind will break down and produce at best an idiot savant who can recite a telephone book, and at worst a person to whom every grudge and slight is as yesterday's.

Christopher Hitchens

#4. Allah will help him who moves in the way of Allah.

Abu Bakr

#5. The steam engine has done much more for science than science has done for the steam engine.

William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin

#6. The press was to serve the governed, not the governors.

Hugo Black

#7. Jordan has a very important part in any Arab-Israeli peace process.

King Hussein

#8. Success is not important to me, nor are power or money. If the script feels good, then I'm in. It's that simple.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#9. I spoke at TED Global 2010 about the ways that video games engage the brain, and in particular, the idea of reward structures: how a challenge or task can be broken down and presented to make it as engaging as possible.

Tom Chatfield

#10. [Jesus] invoked a different kind of power: love, not coercion.

Philip Yancey