Famous quotes containing the word perform:
“All perform their tragic play,
There struts Hamlet, there is Lear,
Thats Ophelia, that Cordelia;”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
“Whatever does not spring from a mans free choice, or is only the result of instruction and guidance, does not enter into his very being, but still remains alien to his true nature; he does not perform it with truly human energies, but merely with mechanical exactness.”
—Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt (17671835)
“Institutionsgovernment, churches, industries, and the likehave properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction.”
—Charles Horton Cooley (18641929)