Top 1200 Poor Performance Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

While the rich reap most of the benefits of technological development, the poor bear an unequal burden of dealing with the consequences of the resulting increased pollution. The poor continue to live in greatest proximity to the sources of pollution, the infrastructure and machinery of industry. They work in the most polluted and physically dangerous workplaces. And these same individuals, living and working closest to the sources of environmental catastrophe, are also the ones most lacking decent health care.

The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself. Check yourself against this list of obstacles to a pleasing personality: interrupting others; sarcasm; vanity; being a poor listener; insincere flattery; finding fault; challenging others without good cause; giving unsolicited advice; complaining; attitude of superiority; envy of others' success; poor posture and dress.

You can't judge a fighter by their worst performance.

I think there's no question that historians create; they would tell you that, I think. If I'm trying to imagine an imperial Roman position, it's much easier to imagine the poor schlub who's not even sure why he's doing what he's doing than it is to imagine Caesar. At least for me. And I'm intrigued, too, by the position of the poor schlub who *still* finds himself supporting the imperial project.

Painting is the frozen evidence of a performance.

There's nothing like live performance.

The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poor-house. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring. I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace.

All you owe the public is a good performance.

The real secret of magic lies in the performance.

Modesty is not possible in performance in the Caribbean - and that's wonderful.

Theater is something that as a performance artist you have to hate.

When it's a live performance, anything can happen.

Distinguish between the person and the behavior or performance.

You want to put on a good performance for yourself.

An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.

Peak performance is meditation in motion.

I feel that confidence is the essence for a good performance.

I always knew I wanted to be a performance artist.

You're only as good as your last performance.

I just concentrate on my performance and the football.

One of the most durable successes of the war on poverty was to dramatically reduce the number of elderly poor in America. That's still true today. But, by contrast, child poverty has shot up over the last few years: A decade ago, about 16 percent of children in America were poor - which is a shockingly high percentage. But it's not as shocking as today, when we see that 22 percent of kids live in poverty.

A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.

The negative is the score, and the print the performance.

I like the energy of live performance.

Drugs won't enhance your performance.

You should not be defined by one bad performance.

That's a huge fear for middle-class women. It's not so much a fear for poor women, because poor women have always assumed that they are going to have to support themselves. It's middle-class women who have this fantasy that somebody else is going to support them.

You lose with potential. You win with performance.

You have to give an element of performance on television.

With attitude, you can determine your own performance.

My first performance was as one of the orphans in 'Oliver!'

And one thing to be remembered: it is not that the people who are poor, starving, become frustrated with life - no. They cannot become frustrated. They have not lived yet - how can they be frustrated? They have hopes. A poor man always has hopes that something is going to happen - if not today then tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow; if not in this life then in the next life.

Success doesn't matter to me. I believe in performance.

So long as there are poor, - I am poor, - So long as there are prisons, - I am a prisoner, - So long as there are sick, - I am weak, - So long as there is ignorance, - I must learn the truth, - So long as there is hate, - I must love, - So long as there is hunger, - I am famished. - Such is the identification Our Divine Lord would have us make with all whom He made in love and for love.

The Democrats tell all the poor people and all of the middle class that they're only where they are 'cause the rich have cheated them, exploited them, or stolen all their money. The way they're gonna make it equal is to take from those people who have just won life's lottery, the premise being that the poor and the rich and the middle class are gonna get the money.

I think the way I eat is the foundation of my performance.

Hear me people: We have now to deal with another race - small and feeble when our fathers first met them, but now great and overbearing. Strangely enough they have a mind to till the soil and the love of possession is a disease with them. These people have made many rules that the rich may break but the poor may not. They take their tithes from the poor and weak to support the rich and those who rule.

There's a joy I think people feel from... my performance.

Quality performance starts with a positive attitude.

That's how you get a performance - they put trust in you.

I'd do anything to get a performance, short of malice.

Life is a play.It's not its length,but its performance that counts.

I never considered myself a performance artist.

You go for the quality of the performance, not the longevity of it.

A performance is a conversation between you and an audience.

Drag performance is really emotional.

Where people work longest and with least leisure, they buy the fewest goods. No towns were so poor as those of England where the people, from children up, worked fifteen and sixteen hours a day. They were poor because these overworked people soon wore out -- they became less and less valuable as workers. Therefore, they earned less and less and could buy less and less.

Individual performance doesn't mean anything to me.

In my opinion, it's all about the song and the performance, not the gender.

Rapturous and full bodied performance.

All good performance starts with clear goals.

I think you have to dig deep in every performance.

Yet the true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme povery lowers the character of the democracy; measures therefore should be taken which will give them lasting prosperity; and as this is equally the interest of all classes, the proceeds of the public revenues should be accumulated and distributed among its poor, if possible, in such quantities as may enable them to purchase a little farm, or, at any rate, make a beginning in trade or husbandry.

Everything starts from prayer. Without asking God for love, we cannot possess love and still less are we able to give it to others. Just as people today are speaking so much about the poor but they do not know or talk to the poor, we too cannot talk so much about prayer and yet not know how to pray.

We have a no puke rule. The purpose is performance, not puking.

To put on a performance, you have to be emotional. You can't be a zombie.

Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it.

Sometimes colleagues in performance are absolutely astonishing.

Young women don't want to be called feminists because it's not sexy and ah they think that their mothers and grandmothers have achieved everything they want. They don't know how poor women live, how women in rural places live, how 80 percent of women in the world are the poorest of the poor, how still there are 27 million slaves, and most of them women and girls.

My favorite aspect of music is the performance part!