Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don't have the time to have a balanced, integrated life.

Stephen Covey

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• It's really interesting working in television as opposed to the theater, where you know the arc of the character and you are able to create this whole backstory.

  

  Yael Stone
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Know

• No press, no television. If my mom calls and says, 'Did you hear about?' I don't want to know nothing about anything that is going on in relation to music. I shut it all off.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Music
  • Mom
  • Television

• I'd say working on television is much, much tougher than films. But television has a great connect with a live audience, which is a refreshing change for us actors.

  

  Kajol
  • Great
  • Live
  • Change

• Television doesn't like politics very well, if you can infer that from the way they cover it.

  

  Jack Germond
  • Way
  • Politics
  • Television

• I think three or four years ago, people would have said my biggest weakness was that sometimes I was awkward on television, with my stammer, but I think they'd say that much less now.

  

  Ed Balls
  • People
  • Think
  • Television

• There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy.

  

  Sally Field
  • People
  • Business
  • Comedy

• My biggest fear in life is to be average.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Life
  • Fear
  • Average

• It wasn't until I was 14 and watched the 1976 Olympic games on television that I really started to dream about the big time. I remember seeing Evelyn Ashford in the 100 meters, and she was going to UCLA.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Time
  • She
  • Remember

• Everybody asks me what it was like to be in my underwear for my network television debut.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Me
  • Like
  • Television

• I learned mainly through television, but I learned how to do mosaic, where you can buy stones or things of that nature. But also where you bust the tile to decorate pots for flowers or table tops. Lots of different things. Wherever you want it, you can mosaic just about anything. It took me about two weeks to do a big birdbath.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • Nature
  • Things
  • Television

• Television has raised writing to a new low.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Writing
  • New
  • Television

• On average, since 9/11, the FBI reckons that just over 100,000 terrorism leads each year have come over the transom. Analysts and agents designate them as immediate, priority or routine, but the bureau says every one is covered.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Year
  • Priority
  • Average

• Television preachers extract money from the poor to live in a style and to indulge in shameful acts which equal or outdo the worst of the Renaissance Popes.

  

  J. Irwin Miller
  • Live
  • Money
  • Style

• People get on a show and they fought tooth and nail. Almost 95% of the actors out there want to be on a television series. Then as soon as they get onto one, no, no, I want to be a movie star. This television series stuff, no, no no.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • People
  • Movie
  • Want

• I have a deep respect for the fundamentals of television, the traditions of it, even, but I don't have any reverence for it.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Respect
  • Deep
  • Television

• Theatre is done largely for the love of the craft. Television makes you famous. And films immortalize you. That's the relationship between the three.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Relationship
  • Theatre
  • Television

• There was only so much television you could do.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • You
  • Television
  • Only

• I started to do theater when I was a little boy at school, and then, I think because my father was a documentary filmmaker and worked for German television, I was of course fascinated by what he did. Then when I was around 15, I did my first movie.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • School
  • Movie
  • Father

• The mystique associated with the bomb, the role that scientists played in it, and its general importance could not fail to impress even a six-year old.

  

  Sidney Altman
  • Importance
  • Bomb
  • Mystique

• I saw Quentin Tarantino's 'Django Unchained,' and you could say a lot of things against it, but it was incredible fun. I don't like blood and gore, and I am very squeamish about violence, but Tarantino's violence is actually funny.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Fun
  • Funny
  • Violence

• Neue Phaenomena zu erklären, dieses macht meine Sorgen aus, und wie froh ist der Forscher, wenn er das so fleissig Gesuche findet, eine Ergötzung wobei das Herz lacht.

  

  Carl Wilhelm Scheele
  • Science
  • Ergs

• Happiness is a state a mind, not a dress size.

  

  Kathryn Budig
  • Mind
  • States
  • Size

• I don't have a lot of pressure on myself to be successful. I'm more of an artist. I just try to make myself more a part of the most beautiful painting as possible. And enjoy it.

  

  Dean Potter
  • Artist
  • Painting
  • Successful

• The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don't have the time to have a balanced, integrated life.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Television
  • Average
  • Balanced