Excellent Performance Quotes

• Our definition of a weakness is anything that gets in the way of excellent performance.

  Donald O. Clifton

  Inspiring, Weakness, Definitions

  Marcus Buckingham, Donald O. Clifton (2001). “Now, Discover Your Strengths”, p.148, Simon and Schuster

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• Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.

  Aristotle

  Art, Academic Excellence, Training

  "The Story of Philosophy". Book by Will Durant, p. 76, 1926.

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• Set excellent performance as your standard and strive to achieve it each day

  Brian Tracy

  Excellence, Each Day, Strive

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• Your earning ability is largely determined by the perception of excellence, quality, and value that others have of you and what you do. The market only pays excellent rewards for excellent performance. It pays average rewards for average performance, and it pays below average rewards or unemployment for below average performance.

  Brian Tracy

  Work, Average, Excellence

  Brian Tracy (2013). “Earn What You're Really Worth: Maximize Your Income at Any Time in Any Market”, p.35, Vanguard Press

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• The necessity to constantly turn in an excellent performance, to be absolutely wedded to this dedication and this ideal means that as a child you're going to pay for it personally.

  Twyla Tharp

  Children, Mean, Dedication

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• Cognitive skills such as big-picture thinking and long-term vision were particularly important. But when I calculated the ratio of technical skills, IQ, and emotional intelligence as ingredients of excellent performance, emotional intelligence proved to be twice as important as the others for jobs at all levels.

  Daniel Goleman

  Jobs, Emotional, Thinking

  Harvard Business Review, Daniel Goleman, Richard E. Boyatzis, Annie McKee (2015). “HBR's 10 Must Reads on Emotional Intelligence (with featured article "What Makes a Leader?" by Daniel Goleman)(HBR's 10 Must Reads)”, p.3, Harvard Business Review Press

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• I like the powerful story, the excellent performances the beautiful cinematography and the vision of the "The Piano".

  Mabel Cheung

  Beautiful, Powerful, Piano

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I don't come to work as an actor. There are many directors who can direct without ever having acted and do a great job and connect with their actors and lead them to excellent performances without themselves having had an acting background.

  Abdellatif Kechiche

  Jobs, Acting, Directors

  Source: collider.com

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