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The best performance improvement is the transition from the non-working state to the working state.


Bernard Berenson

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The best performance improvement is the transition from the non-working state to the working state.
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BERNARD WILLIAMS Virtually the only subject in which one could ever get a scholarship to Oxford or Cambridge was clas...
BERNARD WILLIAMS Few things are as democratic as a snowstorm.
BERNARD WILLIAMS I was attracted to opera when I was 15 or 16. A very rich man in England bankrupted himself to put o...
BERNARD WILLIAMS People who say, 'Let the chips fall where they may,' usually figure they will not be hit by ...
BERNARD WILLIAMS A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't.
BERNARD WILLIAMS If there's one theme in all my work, it's about authenticity and self-expression. It's t...
BERNARD WILLIAMS What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor.
BERNARD WILLIAMS A half-truth is usually less than half of that.
BERNARD WILLIAMS 'Humanity' is a name not merely for a species but also for a quality.
BERNARD WILLIAMS The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day he created Spring.
BERNARD WILLIAMS An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessity.
BERNARD WILLIAMS Women have a favorite room, men a favorite chair.
BERNARD WILLIAMS The people I really do dislike are the morally unimaginative kind of evolutionary reductionists who,...
BERNARD WILLIAMS Disagreement does not necessarily have to be overcome. It may remain an important and constitutive f...
BERNARD WILLIAMS We grow a little every time we do not take advantage of somebody's weakness.
BERNARD WILLIAMS Life is supposed to be a series of peaks and valleys. The secret is to keep the valleys from becomin...
BERNARD WILLIAMS Look, have whatever in your collection at home, but everybody needs a little Friday night. And reall...
BERNARD EDWARDS Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to t...
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