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Letter "P" » performance
«When performance exceeds ambition, the overlap is called success»
Author: Cullen Hightower
| Keywords:
ambition, called, exceeds, overlap, overlapping, performance, with ambition
«When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.»
Author: Joe Paterno
(Football coach)
| About:
Confidence,
Team work
| Keywords:
learns, outgrow, outgrowing, outgrown, outgrows, performance, team
«When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance it becomes literature. That intensity may be a matter of style, situation, character, emotional tone, or idea, or half a dozen other things. It may also be a perfection of control over the movement of a story similar to the control a great pitcher has over the ball.»
Author: Raymond Chandler
(Writer)
| Keywords:
artistic, ball, dozen, emotional, half a dozen, half dozen, intensity, movement, performance, pitcher, reaches, similar, The Movement, tone
«Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine actions than in the nonperformance of base ones.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| About:
Action,
Virtue
| Keywords:
nonperformance, performance, shown
«The injustice of defeat lies in the fact that its most innocent victims are made to look like heartless accomplices. It is impossible to see behind defeat, the sacrifices, the austere performance of duty, the self-discipline and the vigilance that are there -- those things the god of battle does not take account of.»
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
(Author, Pilot, Writer)
| Keywords:
accomplices, account, austere, heartless, injustice, innocent, performance, sacrifices, self-discipline, self-disciplined, take account, The Accomplice, The God, the self, victims, vigilance
«The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.»
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