performance

The people who say poverty is no excuse for low performance are now using teacher accountability as an excuse for doing nothing about poverty.

Dark alleys, like social networks, are romantic, because you never know what might happen while I perform there every Caturday night. Cats do know, but won't tell. So don__ even ask.

On any day - in any given event - you have to believe in yourself and back yourself 100%

If you can't please yourself some of the time, how do you expect to please people all the time? Not everyone is going to appreciate you for your efforts and deeds.

__ill mirrors were Invented, Face was not You, Not Even part of Your Performance.

Inspiration may come from many places but motivation - the love of life, daily drive and the will to thrive - that must come from you from within

If you're going to do something, strive to do it better than anyone else. Do it all the way. If you're going to half-ass it, why bother?

...I'm not afraid of the opinions of others - but of being needed and coming up short ...

Don't waste today by talking about yesterday until it's finally tomorrow.

Not one word was said by Moses or Aaron as to the wickedness of depriving a human being of his liberty. Not a word was said in favor of liberty. Not the slightest intimation that a human being was justly entitled to the product of his own labor. Not a word about the cruelty of masters who would destroy even the babes of slave mothers. It seems to me wonderful that this God did not tell the king of Egypt that no nation could enslave another, without also enslaving itself; that it was impossible to put a chain around the limbs of a slave, without putting manacles upon the brain of the master. Why did he not tell him that a nation founded upon slavery could not stand? Instead of declaring these things, instead of appealing to justice, to mercy and to liberty, he resorted to feats of jugglery. Suppose we wished to make a treaty with a barbarous nation, and the president should employ a sleight-of-hand performer as envoy extraordinary, and instruct him, that when he came into the presence of the savage monarch, he should cast down an umbrella or a walking stick, which would change into a lizard or a turtle; what would we think? Would we not regard such a performance as beneath the dignity even of a president? And what would be our feelings if the savage king sent for his sorcerers and had them perform the same feat? If such things would appear puerile and foolish in the president of a great republic, what shall be said when they were resorted to by the creator of all worlds? How small, how contemptible such a God appears!

If you are not angry with your average performance, you can't effect a change! You must get upset to grab the energy to break the fence confining you!

Specialization, concentration and consistency is the key to outstanding performance... Love your zone!

In an environment where there is a shared vision of excellence, where people can be the best they can be on a daily basis, where they know what is expected of them, understand that reward is linked to performance, and believe they can make a difference because they will be heard, they will make a difference. They will go beyond our expectations and great things will happen.

If you want to break through to higher levels of performance, you must allow yourself to be restructured.

No man is ordinary, only their performances are ordinary.

A performance does not capture or communicate with the mood and feelings of that very moment.

Trustworthy is earned not bought.

When our hopes for performance are not completely met, realistic optimism involves accepting what cannot now be changed, rather than condemning or second-guessing ourselves. Focusing on the successful aspects of performance (even when the success is modest) promotes positive affect, reduces self-doubt, and helps to maintain motivation (e.g., McFarland & Ross, 1982).... Nevertheless, realistic optimism does not include or imply expectations that things will improve on their own. Wishful thinking of this sort typically has no reliable supporting evidence. Instead, the opportunity-seeking component of realistic optimism motivates efforts to improve future performances on the basis of what has been learned from past performances.