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"It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance."
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"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."
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"I say this quite deliberately, this is the finest Shakespearean performance I've seen."
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"The next day I was in my school's production of All My Sons. This was the performance where I realized something was happening between me and the audience that I hadn't recognized before."
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"When we contemplate the heroes of Christianity, and compare our feeble efforts with their astonishing performance and self devotion, we should fall into despair, were there not a few softening features, by which they are brought back to the ranks of humanity."
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"As the director of an opera, it is my responsibility to unify the style of the particular performance, but one can certainly approach the piece from different points of view. That's what makes it interesting and keeps it alive."
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"I went to a performance of 'The Crucible' at the Guthrie when I was a sophomore in high school, and I knew right away that that's what I wanted to do."
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"A magician with decreasing practice sessions will give defective performances."
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"A lawyer's performance in the courtroom is responsible for about 25 percent of the outcome; the remaining 75 percent depends on the facts."
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"The New York Times published the guest list on the front page. The masks were a brilliant concept."
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"To pay 60 musicians for rehearsal and performance is quite something, and I decided I wouldn't be able to handle that kind of situation financially again, unless somebody else was taking care of that end of it."
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"You can't run a business or anything else on a theory."
Business
"If your desk isn't cluttered, you probably aren't doing your job."
Job
"You can know a person by the kind of desk he keeps. If the president of a company has a clean desk then it must be the executive vice president who is doing all the work."
Work
"Performance is your reality. Forget everything else."
Performance
"Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it."
Management
"Facts from paper are not the same as facts from people. The reliability of the people giving you the facts is as important as the facts themselves."
People
"Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization."
Man
"In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later."
Business
"Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away."
Performance
"The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and by your everyday attitude that you are wholeheartedly supporting them."
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