#perform

Past experience with fiscal austerity at home and overseas strongly suggests that it is best for the economy's long-run performance to restrain government spending rather than raise taxes. ↗

— Mark Zandi

#best #economy #experience #fiscal #government

On the right side-panel of the verbose and somewhat tautological box of Cheerios, it is written, If you are not satisfied with the quality and/or performance of the Cheerios in this box, send name, address, and reason for dissatisfaction—along with entire boxtop and price paid—to: General Mills, Inc., Box 200-A, Minneapolis, Minn., 55460. Your purchase price will be returned. It isn’t enough that there is a defensive tone to those words, a slant of doubt, an unappetizing broach of the subject of money, but they leave the reader puzzling over exactly what might be meant by the “performance” of the Cheerios. Could the Cheerios be in bad voice? Might not they handle well on curves? Do they ejaculate too quickly? Has age affected their timing or are they merely in a mid-season slump? Afflicted with nervous exhaustion or broken hearts, are the Cheerios smiling bravely, insisting that the show must go on? ↗

— Tom Robbins

#performance #satisfaction #age

Play always as if in the presence of a master. ↗

— Robert Schumann

#performing #piano #music

The speech fascinated him. His ear caught the rhythm of it and he noted their idioms and worked some of them into his patter. He had found the reason behind the peculiar, drawling language of the old carny hands—it was a composite of all the sprawling regions of the country. A language which sounded Southern to Southerners, Western to Westerners. It was the talk of the soil and its drawl covered the agility of the brains that poured it out. It was a soothing, illiterate, earthy language. ↗

— William Lindsay Gresham

#carnival #carny #language #performance #religion

The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#democratic #democratic society #functions #health #may

I feel that the work that I have done in the comedy arena, is priceless in terms of what I learned, timing, everything that these incredibly talented performers were generous enough in teaching me. ↗

— Khandi Alexander

#comedy #done #enough #everything #feel

Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist. ↗

— Mary Kay Ash

#cease #cease to exist #confidence #cornerstone #exist

My job, I think, is the hardest job out of all the judges because I am the only one that is a performer. ↗

— Paula Abdul

#because #hardest #i #i am #i think

A lot of players think the game is all about individual performances when it's really all about a team game. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#game #individual #lot #performances #players

While I don't script and I don't use other performers, I think my taste for underlying precision gives me something in common with Allan and George Brecht. ↗

— David Antin

#common #george #gives #i #i think