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“The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event.”

Learning Subjects Events Judging Criticism Performances Critics Sincerely

Book:Memoirs of My Life: Edited from the Manuscripts by Georges A. Bonnard

Source: Memoirs of My Life: Edited from the Manuscripts by Georges A. Bonnard

“Thought and speech are of a thinking and speaking subject, and if the life of the latter depends on the performance of a superimposed function, it depends on fulfilling the requirements of this function thus it depends on those who control these requirements.”

Ifs Thinking Subjects Depends Speech Performances Function Latter Fulfilling Requirements

Book:One Dimensional Man

Source: One Dimensional Man

“Genius now and then produces a lucky trifle. We still read the Dove of Anacreon, and Sparrow of Catullus; and a writer naturally pleases himself with a performance which owes nothing to the subject.”

Stills Subjects Produce Genius Please Lucky Performances Now And Then Trifles Dove Authorship Sparrows

Book:The Lives of the Most Prominent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works

Source: The Lives of the Most Prominent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works

“Most problems, decisions, and performances are multidimensional, but somehow the results have to be reduced to a few key indicators which are to be institutionally rewarded or penalized... The need to reduce the indicators to a manageable few is based not only on the need to conserve the time (and sanity) of those who assign rewards and penalties, but also to provide those subject to these incentives with some objective indication of what their performance is expected to be and how it will be judged... key indicators can never tell the whole story.”

Needs Whole Stories Problem Decision Results Subjects Keys Performances Rewards Expected Objectives Sanity Judged Penalties Incentives Indication Indicators Manageable

Author:Thomas Sowell

“Like most portrait photographers, I aim to record the instant the subject is not thinking about being photographed, striving to get beyond the practiced facial performance, reaching for something unplanned. While trying to be as objective as possible, I acknowledge that every gesture is still an act of artifice.”

Thinking Trying Stills Records Subjects Performances Aim Strive Photographer Objectives Acknowledge Instant Reaching Gestures Portraits Artifice Facial

Author:Martin Schoeller