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"If I had a bad performance in a particular leotard, I threw it in the trash."
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"He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in performance of it."
"If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different."
"Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics."
"The place trembled with sound. I didn't need to do anything. They would do it all. But you had to be careful. Drunk as they were they could immediately detect any false gesture, any false word. You could never underestimate an audience. They had paid to get in; they had paid for drinks; they intended to get something and if you didn't give it to them they'd run you right into the ocean."
"I attended a symposium to hear Shilagh Mirgain, Ph.D. speak on Mindful Leadership. Throughout her program, I made sure to make eye contact and smile to support, affirm, and engage with her presentation. When audience members do this for me, it adds an extra punch of dynamic energy that enriches my presentations and improves my performance."
"A magician with decreasing practice sessions will give defective performances."
"High performers whom exhibit tremendous self-control tend to be burden by their own competence. Studies indicate that being extraordinary competent can place a person under an unusual amount of stress because it raises other people's expectation of them. The more task that an exemplary employee produces with a 'go-getting personality' while maintaining high quality relationships with peers and clients, the more an organization tends to underestimates their actual effort and the more it expects of them. Other people do not comprehend how difficult it is for a high performer to complete multifaceted tasks. They also tend to underestimate how much effort an enterprising person exerts who maintains a positive and pleasant attitude while completing difficult assignments."
"Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?"
"Think like magician, present like magician and perform like magician."
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"For six years, I kept my five Olympic medals wrapped in a plastic bread bag beneath my bed."
"I love her attitude, but as much as I'd like to bring my medals to a speech or appearance, I never do."
"As simple as it sounds, we all must try to be the best person we can: by making the best choices, by making the most of the talents we've been given."
"I usually don't mind giving autographs, but when hundreds of folks with paper and pen start coming at you, it's time to seek shelter."
"In the dressing room, I always put on my right shoe first. Same thing for my right wristband."
"Former Olympians also get paid to make appearances. Many of them won their medals in an era when Olympic success didn't go hand-in-hand with financial success."
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