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"Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality."
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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."
"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."
"I was the worst extra, I was 'that' guy. I was the guy on the phone trying to get the Oscar for best extra - for best background performance."
"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 say this quite deliberately, this is the finest Shakespearean performance I've seen."
"Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious."
"Pitching... sometimes I did so poorly, it brought me to tears."
"I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone."
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"Welcome those big, sticky, complicated problems. In them are your most powerful opportunities."
"Beset by a difficult problem? Now is your chance to shine. Pick yourself up, get to work and get triumphantly through it."
"It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it."
"The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen."
"When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?"
"What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it - would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have."
"Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self."
"You've done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination."
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