Leadership is not magnetic personality that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not 'making friends and influencing people' that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.
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Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
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Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folkways and superstition, and of cooperation for force. It means the substitution of responsibility for obedience to rank, and of authority of performance for the authority of rank. Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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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.
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If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.
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The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.
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Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.
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My strong point, if I have a strong point, is performance. I always do more than I say. I always produce more than I promise.
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Over-seriousness is a warning sign for mediocrity and bureaucratic thinking. People who are seriously committed to mastery and high performance are secure enough to lighten up.
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The law demands good works and uses its terrorrejection, shame, fear of punishment, unanswered prayer, personal tragedy, etc. As motivation. Here performance is a necessity to secure the blessings and avoid the curses. Grace, on the other hand, allows us to serve on a different basisnot from fear but on the basis of love and gratitude, from appreciation and gladness for blessings freely given and freely received.
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What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid... If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.
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Leadership is not magnetic personalitythat can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not 'making friends and influencing people'that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.
The Queen Mother, with a lifetime's popularity, seemed incapable of a bad performance as national grandmother-warm, smiling, human, understanding, she embodied everything the public could want of its grandmother.
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When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance.... Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.
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The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.
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Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.
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Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine actions than in the nonperformance of base ones.
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We are face to face with our destiny and we must meet it with a high and resolute courage. For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.
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An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.
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Actors should be overheard, not listened to, and the audience is 50 percent of the performance.
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Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.
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What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.
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Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in the hours, weeks, months and years they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance itself is merely the demonstration of their championship character
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