A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties.
Harriet Martineau
A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties.
Harriet Martineau
But ultimately it comes down to how the team performs on the day.
Imran Khan
Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Fashion is treated too much as news rather than what it is, what it does and how it performs.
Geoffrey Beene
In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever.
Niklaus Wirth
Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
Vincent Van Gogh
Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.
William Faulkner
My mother is a singer, still performs today; she's a jazz singer.
Jan Hammer
No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.
Calvin Coolidge
No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure.
James K. Polk
No: war material is life-saving for one's own people and whoever works and performs in these spheres can be proud of it; here enterprise as a whole finds its highest justification of existence.
Gustav Krupp
One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently.
Manuel Puig
So the animal finally performs in that situation only the fitting act.
Edward Thorndike
The country blacksmith who employs no journeyman is never conscious of any conflict between the capital invested in his anvil, hammer and bellows, and the labor he performs with them, because in fact, there is none.
Leland Stanford
The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were.
David Brinkley
There is also a perfection of degrees, by which a person performs all the commands of God, with the full exertion of all his powers, without the least defect. This is what the law of God requires, but what the saints cannot attain to in this life.
Charles Buck
When I'm up against a wall, that's when Billy Mays performs best.
Billy Mays
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