Any performance is discussable from the standpoint of what it attains or what it misses.Comprehensiveness can be discussed as superficiality, intensiveness as stricture, tolerance as uncertaintyöand the poor pedestrian abilities of a fish are clearly explainable in terms of his excellence as a swimmer. A way of seeing is also a way of not seeing.

-Burke, Kenneth
  Permanence and Change.

His moral character†was full of promise, but of no performance.

-Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam
^4  Of Mr Pecksniff. Martin Chuzzlewit, ch.5.

No major institution in the US has so poor a record of performance over so long a period as the Federal Reserve, yet so high a public reputation.

-Friedman, Milton
  'The Fed Has No Clothes', in The Wall Street Journal,15  Apr.

The real accomplishment of modern science and technology consists in taking ordinary men, informing them narrowlyand deeply and then, through appropriate organization, arranging to have their knowledge combined with that of other specialized but equally ordinary men. This dispenses with the need for genius.Theresulting performance, though lessinspiring, is far more predictable.

-Galbraith,John Kenneth
  The New Industrial State.

The services of a menial servant, taking him as an example of unproductive labour,'generally perish in the very instant of their performance'öand forthwith into this galley, along with the menial servant, goes the sovereign, accompanied by all the army, the navy, and the civil service, followed by churchmen, lawyers, buffoons and opera dancers. All theseöand it is a hard sayingörender services which perish in the very instant of their performance. 368

-Gray, Alexander
The Development of Economic Doctrine.

   Bullfighting is the onlyart in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.

-Hemingway, Ernest Millar
  Death in the Afternoon, ch.9.

The pretension is nothing; the performance everything. A good apple is better than an insipid peach.

-Hunt, (James Henry) Leigh
  The Story of Rimini, preface to rev edn.

A jazz performance centers upon the process of creation. The final objective is not only the finished product, but the path and process taken towards it.

-Liebman, David
  Self-Portrait of a Jazz- Artist, ch.3.

Oh that thou hadst like others been all words, And no performance.

-Massinger, Philip
  The Parliament of Love, act 4, sc.2.

If frequent teabreaks and other manifestations of disguised leisure are regarded as goodsöand economics suggests that they be so regardedötheir inclusion in any index of output per capita might go some way to enhance Britain's comparative performance.

-Mishan, E J
Quoted in  Alex Rubner Three Sacred Cows of Economics (1970), p.47.

The life of every man is an endlessly repeated performance of the life of man.

-Muir, Edwin
  An  Autobiography, ch.1.

   The basic difference between classical music and jazz is that in the former music is always greater than its performanceöwhereas the way jazz is performed is always more important than what is being played.

-Previn, Andre¤   (George)
  Quoted in TheTimes.

I have never been able to decide whether, in mountain exploration, it is the prospect of tackling an unsolved problem, or the performance of the task itself, or the retrospective enjoyment of successful effort, which affords the greatest amount of pleasure.

-Shipton, Eric Earle
  Nanda Devi.

Afew weeksago Ihad a revelation and told my secretary that I could give him a synthesis of forty-six years of living with economic policy. It is: 'Economic policy is random with respect to the performance of the American economy, but, thank God, there isn't much of it.'

-Stein, Herbert
  Washington Bedtime Stories.

No one will get at my verses who insists upon viewing them as a literary performance.

-Whitman,Walt(er)
  'A Backward Glance O'erTravel'd Roads'.

   There is no more offensive act of theatrical rudeness than coming late to a performance.

-Zolotow, Maurice
  In TheaterArts, Feb.