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.
Perform - Performance Quotes
Instead of rating the man by his performances, we rate too frequently the performances by the man.
His (a player’s) conversation usually threatened and announced more than it performed; that he fed you with a continual renovation of hope, to end in a constant succession of disappointment.
We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears.
Remember this, – that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.
Where performance is measured, performance improves. Where performance is measured and reported, the rate of improvement accelerates.
Religious Displays, as distinct from religious beliefs, are submissive acts performed towards dominant individuals called gods. The acts themselves include various forms of body-lowering, such as kneeling, bowing, kowtowing, salaaming and prostrating; also chanting and rituals of debasement and sacrifice; the offering of gifts to the gods and the making of symbolic gestures of allegiance. […]
Bringing up a family should be an adventure, not an anxious discipline in which everybody is constantly graded for performance.
Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance? (Henry IV)
Every living creature that comes into the world has something allotted to him to perform, therefore he should not stand an idle spectator of what others are doing.
