“One's worth and self-regard ought to come from individual competitive performance, not from group identity. Pride based on clan or tribal connections is atavistic. It appeals to people who fear they cannot succeed as individuals, and by diverting their energies it all but ensures they will not succeed as individuals.” PeopleSelfIndividualEnergyGroupsIdentityPrideOughtSucceedConnectionsPerformancesRegardAppealsClansGroup Identity Book:In Defense of Elitism Source: In Defense of Elitism
“A successful author is equally in danger of the diminution of his fame, whether he continues or ceases to write. The regard of the public is not to be kept but by tribute, and the remembrance of past service will quickly languish unless successive performances frequently revive it. Yet in every new attempt there is new hazard, and there are few who do not, at some unlucky time, injure their own characters by attempting to enlarge them.” WritingCharacterPastSuccessfulDangerFamePerformancesRegardCeaseRemembranceAttemptingTributeHazardsReviveUnluckyLanguish Book:The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752 Source: The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752
“I despair of ever receiving the same degree of pleasure from the most exalted performances of genius which I felt in childhood from pieces which my present judgment regards as trifling and contemptible.” RomanceFeltPleasurePiecesChildhoodGeniusDespairDegreesJudgmentPerformancesRegardReceivingExaltedTrifling Author:Edmund Burke
“If there is genuine potential for growth, build capacity in advance of demand, as a strategy for creating demand. Hold the vision, especially as regards assessing key performance and evaluating whether capacity to meet potential demand is adequate.” IfsGrowthVisionKeysDemandCreatingCapacityPerformancesRegardStrategyGenuineAdequateAssessing Author:Peter Senge
“I know it wouldn't seem like I've had a lot of failure in my career, but there are things that I regard as failures, when I look at certain performances and go, 'That's not good enough.'” KnowsLooksEnoughSeemsCertainCareersPerformancesRegardGood EnoughNot Good Enough Author:Daniel Radcliffe
“The constant reprimands made me hyperconscious of my own performance, and so instead of getting rid of self, I had become embedded in the egoism I was supposed to transcend. Now I was beginning to understand that a silence that is not clamorous with vexation and worried self-regard can become part of the texture of your mind, can seep into you, moment by moment, and gradually change you.” MindMadeSelfMomentsMy OwnSilencePerformancesRegardConstantWorriedTextureEgoismEmbeddedVexation Author:Karen Armstrong
“Free improvisation, in addition to being a highly skilled musical craft, is open to use by almost anyone-beginners, children, and non-musicians. The skill and intellect required is whatever is available. Its accessibility to the performer is, in fact, something which appears to offend both its supporters and detractors....And as regards method, the improvisor employs the oldest in music-making...Mankind's first musical performance couldn't have been anything other than a free improvisation.” FirstsChildrenHas BeensFactsUseMusicMankindSkillsMusicianPerformancesRegardMethodMusicalAvailableIntellectCraftsPerformersSupporterImprovisationBeginnersAccessibilityMusic MakingMusical Performance Author:Derek Bailey