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Simplicity, without which no human performance can arrive at perfection. -- Jonathan Swift
Coaching done well may be the most effective intervention designed for human performance. -- Atul Gawande
If I am ever put to death on the hook, expect a very human performance. -- Kurt Vonnegut
The more perfect music we have, the more attractive the peculiarities and anomalies of human performance become. Perfection is a second rate idea. -- T Bone Burnett
All the rich people collect traditional Chinese art. So it's very natural for Chinese families to still see art as the highest human performance and send their children to this field. -- Ai Weiwei
There's something in human performance that is very smooth and very fluid, and at the same time it can be very precise, and that can take a lot of time, trial and error. -- Thomas Bangalter
Attempts are found in domains of human performance, such as sports, games, artistic domains, professional domains like medicine and the law, and so on. These feature distinctive aims, and corresponding competences. Archery, with its distinctive arrows and targets, divides into subdomains. Thus, competitive archery differs importantly from archery hunting. -- Ernest Sosa
Although humans today remain more capable than machines for many tasks, by 2030 machine capabilities will have increased to the point that humans will have become the weakest component in a wide array of systems and processes. Humans and machines will need to become far more closely coupled, through improved human-machine interfaces and by direct augmentation of human performance -- Werner J. A. Dahm
Genetics is all about showcasing human beauty along with high-quality performance. -- Bela Karolyi
Every human being must have boundaries in order to have successful relationships or a successful performance in life. -- Henry Cloud
Most corporations have human-resources processes that involve discussions with your manager, performance evaluations, calibrations for performance and potential succession planning. -- Denise Morrison
When a pianist sits down and does a virtuoso performance he is in a technical sense transmitting more information to a machine than any other human activity involving machinery allows. -- Robert Moog
I'm not really good at fun-to-know, human interest stuff. We're not 'celebrities', whose life itself is a performance. Good or bad or ugly, we are our words. They're what people meet. -- Terry Pratchett
The performances I enjoy are the ones that are hard to read or ambiguous or left-of-centre because it makes you look closer and that's what humans are like - quite mysterious creatures, hard to pinpoint. -- Emily Blunt
I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity, or exceptional performance by athletes and artists, we harbor a greater life than we know. -- Jean Houston
Humans are imperfect. That's one of the reasons that classical and jazz are in trouble. We're on the quest for the perfect performance and every note has to be right. Man, every note is not right in life. -- Branford Marsalis
I always try to be very human in my performances and hang out with my fans. It is cool to be a celebrity, but at the end of the day I want to empower my audience and say, 'Hey, I am just like you.' -- Kate Voegele
I'm a huge fan of Jack Lemmon, he was someone who managed to tread that line between comedy and tragedy and sometimes give very big performances, but they were never over-demonstrative and they were never not based on a kind of real truthful human being. -- Steve Coogan
I believe in the city as a natural human environment, but we must humanize it. It's art that will re-define public space in the 21st Century. We can make our cities diverse, inspirational places by putting art, dance and performance in all its forms into the matrix of street life. -- Antony Gormley
As long as that spark of passion is missing there is no human significance in the performance. -- Henry Miller
When you do stand-up, you're just concerned with trying to leave with some semblance of human dignity at the end of your performance. -- John Oliver
Public Schools too often fail because they are shielded from the very force that improves performance and sparks innovation in nearly every other human enterprise - competition. -- Bob Lutz

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