Quotes by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Quotations about Performance

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It is hard to go beyond your public. If they are satisfied with cheap performance, you will not easily arrive at better. If they know what is good, and require it. you will aspire and burn until you achieve it. But from time to time, in history, men are born a whole age too soon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo