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For the mere purpose of entertainment and the excitement of wonder, a display of brilliant electric experiments, even when performed in the most promiscuous and confused order, never fail to afford ample gratification to the curiosity. The studious observer, however, whose business is to inquire into the true beauties of the science, requires the most judicious arrangement of the phenomena that can possibly be devised, in order to facilitate his acquaintance with them, and with the laws by which they are displayed and associated with each other.
william sturgeon— William Sturgeon (1842). Lectures on electricity. London : Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper. p. 123-124.
The new form of Odissi had its old historic roots yet it had changed to conform to the changing cultural trends of the people during the 1950s-60s. Earlier it was bound within the religious doors of the Hindu temples but upon its revival it became a more public or secular form of art and was performed on stage world wide.
— In "Dance and Architecture: Body, Form, Space and Transformation", p.25
We moved from what cultural historians call a culture of character to a culture of personality. During the culture of character, what was important was the good deeds that you performed when nobody was looking. ... But at the turn of the (20th) century, when we moved into this culture of personality, suddenly what was admired was to be magnetic and charismatic.
— Susan Cain (2012) "Quiet, Please: Unleashing 'The Power Of Introverts'," NPR, January 30, 2012.
You seldom find him making love in any of his scenes or endeavouring to move the passions; his genius was too sullen and saturnine to do it gracefully, especially when he knew he came after those who had performed both to such an height.
john dryden— 1668 Of Ben Jonson. An Essay of Dramatic Poesy,'Shakespeare and Ben Jonson Compared'.
The national strike of the miners in 1972 performed, I believe, a great service, not only to the miners, but the people in Britain today who wanted coal
michael foot— House of Commons speech (1974)
Very important functions can be performed very wastefully and often are.
john kenneth galbraith— The Affluent Society, Chapter 17, Section I (1958, pg. 190).
Those humble but indomitable workers, to whom later generations referred by the collective name of Baale Masorah, Masters of Tradition, performed in obscurity their Herculean task of guarding the Biblical Text against loss or variation.
robert gordis— "The Biblical Text in the Making", p.1
If you want to see your plays performed the way you wrote them, become President.
václav havel— Address to the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London quoted in The Independent, London (24 March 1990)
It appears, accordingly, from the experience of all ages and nations, I believe, that the work done by freemen comes cheaper in the end than that performed by slaves.
Adam Smith— Chapter VIII
There are three intellectual pursuits, and, so far as I am aware, only three, in which human beings have performed major feats before the age of puberty. They are music, mathematics, and chess.
George Steiner— "A Death of Kings"
Whatever offices of life are performed by women of culture and refinement are thenceforth elevated; they cease to be mere servile toils, and become expressions of the ideas of superior beings.
harriet beecher stowe— Household Papers and Stories, Part 2, Chapter 4 (1864)
Name me an ethical statement made or an action performed by a believer that could not have been made or performed by a non-believer.
christopher hitchens— "Excerpt from 'The Portable Atheist'", USA Today, 1 November 2007, ISSN 0161-7389
Mr. LaLanne said he performed his exercises until he experienced “muscle fatigue,” lifting weights until it was impossible for him to continue. It produced results and, as he put it, “the ego in me” made the effort worthwhile.
jack la lanne— In "Jack LaLanne, Founder of Modern Fitness Movement, Dies at 96, New York Times."
Enjoin him to play so many hours every day, and look that he do it; and you shall see he will quickly be sick of it; and willing to leave it. By this means making the recreations you dislike a business to him, he will of himself with delight betake himself to those things you would have him do, especially if they be proposed as rewards for having performed the task in that play which is commanded of him.
john locke— Sec. 129 (Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693))
Which was performed to a T.
françois rabelais— Chapter 41. (Fourth Book (1548, 1552))
Nine-tenths of the activities of a modern Government are harmful; therefore the worse they are performed, the better.
bertrand russell— The Problem of China (1922), Ch. XII: The Chinese Character.
One was kind, out of a bounty that could hardly be exhausted, to old governesses and gardeners, who could be relied upon to give thanks with proper abjection; one performed public duties, for which one was paid in full by deference; one was chaste, refusing to run away from one's husband with other men who for the most part did not ask one to do so, and who in any case had nothing better to offer than one's own home. Knowing no difficulties one was without fortitude; knowing no criteria but one's own achievements one was without taste.
rebecca west— Chapter VII (The Thinking Reed (1936))
We moved from what cultural historians call a culture of character to a culture of personality. During the culture of character, what was important was the good deeds that you performed when nobody was looking. ... But at the turn of the (20th) century, when we moved into this culture of personality, suddenly what was admired was to be magnetic and charismatic.
— Susan Cain (2012) "Quiet, Please: Unleashing 'The Power Of Introverts'," NPR, January 30, 2012.
If you want to see your plays performed the way you wrote them, become President.
— Václav Havel, in an address to the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, as quoted in The Independent, London (24 March 1990), referring to his work as an absurdist playwright.
In enterprise modelling, we want to define the actions performed within an enterprise, and define constraints for plans and schedules which are constructed to satisfy the goals of the enterprise. This leads to the following set of informal competency questions:
— Temporal projection - Given a set of actions that occur at different points in the future, what are the properties of resources and activities at arbitrary points in time?
— Planning and scheduling - what sequence of activities must be completed to achieve some goal? At what times must these activities be initiated and terminated?
— Execution monitoring and external events - What are the effects of the occurrence of external and unexpected events (such as machine breakdown or the unavailability of resources) on a plan or schedule?
— Time-based competition - we want to design an enterprise that minimizes the cycle time for a product. This is essentially the task of finding a minimum duration plan that minimizes action occurrences and maximizes concurrency of activities.
— Michael Grüninger and Mark S. Fox (1995) "Methodology for the Design and Evaluation of Ontologies." p. 3-4
Brethren, léife is passing; youth goes, strength decays. But duty performed, work done for God this abides forever, this alone is imperishable.
— Richard Fuller, p. 198. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
The consciousness of duty performed gives us music at midnight.
— George Herbert, p. 200. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
The notion that "applied" knowledge is somehow less worthy than "pure" knowledge, was natural to a society in which all useful work was performed by slaves and serfs, and in which industry was controlled by the models set by custom rather than by intelligence.
— John Dewey (1916). Democracy and Education, section 17.
In heaven, we shall never regret any sacrifice however painful, or labor however protracted, made or performed here for the cause of Christ.
— Mary Lyon, p. 533. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
But the duty to which you have called me must be performed; grant me, I pray you, your indulgence and your sympathy .
— Edward Everett in Western Christian Advocate, Volume 77, 1911, p.11
In the later vedic age, the King performed the rites of Rajasuya Yajna with a desire to obtain divine power, Ashwamedha Yajna to expand the empire and the Vajpeya Yajna for chariot racing with friends and relatives of his gotra .
— In Pratiyogita Darpan: General Studies Indian History, p.9
No matter how it is worded or performed, abortion hurts women. This won’t stop until women stand up in unison and say, ‘This is unacceptable. We deserve better.’ Lack of emotional and financial resources are the real undue burden and abortion will never lift that.
— Serrin Foster, president of Feminists For Life, press release, (June 28, 2000).
Our investigation revealed that the criminal conduct of Gosnell and his workers extended beyond the drug violations to nearly every aspect of the clinic’s operations. Gosnell routinely and deliberately killed babies born alive by severing their spinal cords with surgical scissors, and encouraged his employees to do the same. He performed illegal abortions after the 24th week of pregnancy, often falsifying gestational ages to disguise his criminal conduct.
— GRAND JURY XXIII (Philadelphia County) presentment recommending prosecution of abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell for murder, infanticide, and unlawful late-term abortion [22].
