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"The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event."
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"It never hurts a fool to appear before anaudience, for his capacity is not a capacity for feeling."

"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."

"Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?"

"If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different."

"I remember the difficulty we had in the beginning replacing magnetic cores in memories and eventually we had both cost and performance advantages. But it wasn't at all clear in the beginning."

"Be able to resign. It will improve your value to the President and do wonders for your performance."

"Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it."

"He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in performance of it."
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"Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself."

"But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous."

"It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work."

"The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature."

"The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness."

"Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking."
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