Platitudes and generalities can only be sustained when performance exceeds intellect.
Jeffrey Benjamin
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CULLEN HIGHTOWER If you really want to hear what someone says then listen with your eyes.
JEFFREY BENJAMIN You can only control you.
JEFFREY BENJAMIN Growth-oriented performance demands sustained entrepreneurial efforts.
RAJEN JANI The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the int...
CHARLES SUMNER The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the int...
CHARLES SUMNER We've got stability and momentum now. I'll be taking the organization and making it work so it excee...
JAMES KASKIE The ultimate test of leadership is performance.
JEFFREY BENJAMIN Integrity of one's values is the highest score.
JEFFREY BENJAMIN Improvement only happens when the cost of our behaviour exceeds the price of change.
JIM GENOVESE Mistakes and failures turn into success when we persevere.
JEFFREY BENJAMIN When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature then we the pedant.
CONFUCIUS Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing...
OSCAR WILDE Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
MARGARET THATCHER The best way to evaluate a person is by performance not intellect.
JEFFREY BENJAMIN Jeffrey was working from the book only. When I saw an early version of the play, I knew I had more t...
MITCH ALBOM Never argue. In society nothing must be discussed; give only results. (Benjamin Disraeli, 1804–188...
ROBERT GREENE Confidence does not entertain ridicule.
JEFFREY BENJAMIN For me, the intellect is always the guide but not the goal of the performance. Three things have to ...
VLADIMIR HOROWITZ When your outgo exceeds your income, the upshot may be your downfall.
PAUL HARVEY When your outgo exceeds your income your upkeep will be your downfall.
UNKNOWN Don't expect quarterback pay unless you have proven quarterback play.
JEFFREY BENJAMIN Rest happens when you perform your best.
JEFFREY BENJAMIN When enemies, the intellect and the heart only see one another as the hater and the fool.
CRISS JAMI And not only the pride of intellect, but the stupidity of intellect. And, above all, the dishonesty,...
LEO TOLSTOY Success is when reality exceeds expectations.
JOHN D. GERHART Only when you combine sound intellect with emotional discipline, you get rational behavior.
WARREN BUFFETT The intellect can only think about or analyze joy, but cannot feel it.
BRYANT MCGILL global anti- terrorism can be sustained only by action taken at the Security Council level. It has t...
TRAIAN BASESCU Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race hor...
LORD KELVIN To me, when I think of New Age, I think of crystals and rainbows and platitudes.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Honest debate stops when the name calling starts.
JEFFREY BENJAMIN It pains me to think how much you are worth now."
"I can't tell you that. If you can count it, ...
JEFFREY ARCHER The bastard. It's bad enough knowing he's stolen our money,but it's humiliating having to watch him ...
JEFFREY ARCHER Making a million legally has always been difficult. Making a million illegally has always been a lit...
JEFFREY ARCHER To be wise and love exceeds man's might.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Understanding of our fellow human beings...becomes fruitful only when it is sustained by sympathetic...
ALBERT EINSTEIN To higher and higher platitudes.
RICHARD J. DALEY Glittering generalities! They are blazing ubiquities.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON What pleases the public is lively and vivid delineation which makes no demands on the intellect; but...
THOMAS MANN The worst moment of any campaign is waiting for the sun to rise on the morning of the battle
JEFFREY ARCHER Sustained performance under pressure is the mantra of NEVER FLAT and that is what this series of rec...
DAN TOUHEY We may seek God by our intellect, but we only can find him with our heart.
COTVOS What WE can do together Far exceeds what we can do alone.
DEBRA ROBERTS The end result is a compilation of many previous contributions.
JEFFREY BENJAMIN One of the advantages of real worth is that menial tasks can always be left to someone else.
JEFFREY ARCHER Economic growth must be the central issue because it is only through growth that the devastating thr...
ROBERT ZUBRIN When our knowing exceeds our sensing, we will no longer be deceived by the illusions of our senses.
WALTER RUSSELL Your knowledge can stir the world, your intellect can move it, your wisdom can shake it, but only yo...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect ...
CARL JUNG We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect ...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG Your potential exceeds your beliefs. Be courageous and chose the impossible.
ROBBIE VORHAUS Our performance this quarter demonstrated once again that our focus and execution on long-term finan...
DENNIS POWELL It is only the intellect that keeps me sane; perhaps this makes me overvalue intellect against feeli...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Donit kill her now, just when we've gone to all that trouble to rescue her," said Jeffrey.
JEANNE BIRDSALL God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no furt...
MAHATMA GANDHI Equality does not emerge from the art of victimhood and neither can it be sustained by it.
TROY J. GAINEY It is good to be intellectually productive
SOTONYE ANGA Jesting is often only indigence of intellect.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Jesting is often only indigence of intellect.
JEAN DE LA BRUYÈRE Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be...
KATHERINE F. GEROULD We think in generalities, but we live in detail
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD We think in generalities, but we live in detail. To make the past live, we must perceive it in detai...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to imp...
HAVELOCK ELLIS We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD Advice is the only commodity on the market where the supply always exceeds the demand.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Advice is the only commodity on the market where the supply always exceeds the demand.
Generalities don't count and won't help you in football.
KNUTE ROCKNE The torment of precautions often exceeds often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes be...
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Successful people do what successful people do, and failures do what failures do; and if the failure...
THOMAS J. POWELL Shallow intellect is worse than ignorance. Ignorance can be treated with knowledge, but shallow inte...
ABHIJIT NASKAR Your role does not define you as a person, but how you perform your role does.
JEFFREY BENJAMIN An actor should be judged by his performance only.
JAMES DEAN There will no doubt be growth in small cars, but for how long can it be sustained.
ARVIND MATHEW A creative life cannot be sustained by approval any more than it can be destroyed by criticism.
WILL SELF Be yourself, be who you can be.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA We shall reach greater and greater platitudes of achievment.
RICHARD J. DALEY A compulsive external search only leads us to the interpretation of another’s path. True identity ...
GARY HOPKINS The Chautauqua Institution is truly a national treasure. It is a place for contemplation and a place...
ELIOT SPITZER I'm very proud of the guys, we can only build on this performance.
JUAN SMITH Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.
THORNTON WILDER Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be fille...
HERMANN HESSE My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go ...
D. H. LAWRENCE My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go ...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE The days of a politician talking platitudes are over, and if it wasn't for Mr. Trump in this rac...
COREY LEWANDOWSKI To be nameless in worthy deeds, exceeds an infamous history.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE The fiscal insanity that Jeffrey was willing to be a part of for all these years is over. We've been...
DAVID SAMSON Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non performance can always be explained away.
HAROLD S. GENEEN A rise in the level of saving can reduce aggregate activity temporarily but only a sustained high le...
MARTIN FELDSTEIN When I was doing 'Beau Travail,' I listened a lot to Benjamin Britten.
CLAIRE DENIS The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness; a non perf...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON We have built up an infrastructure that exceeds current -- and I would say likely -- demand for the ...
MARK SCHULTZ It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a...
HAROLD S. GENEEN We can expect attacks to become more deliberate, better planned and sustained.
GRAHAM TITTERINGTON To advance, however far, is profitless unless the ground gained can be consolidated, or the momentum...
LUDOVIC KENNEDY And when he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the ward was there, whose name was Irijah, the...
BIBLE When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to...
ABU BAKR Many will call me an adventurer, and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks...
PAWAN KALYAN Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risk...
CHE GUEVARA Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who ris...
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