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

• I realise how important it is to use the time I have. I respect people who want to do that by watching television. I happen to want to read books. But I know I can't read all the books or watch all the movies in one lifetime.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Time
  • Important

• 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
  • Television
  • New

• 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

• I think the least stereotypical gay character on television is probably Matt LeBlanc on 'Episodes.' He just plays it so straight-faced. They never talk about the fact that he's such a huge gay person.

  

  Adam Pally
  • Character
  • Think
  • Gay

• 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

• I have never farted in front of a guy I fancied before - I was so embarrassed!.

  

  Rebecca Loos
  • Guy
  • Embarrassed
  • Fancy

• Collectivism stands for a society in which people from birth onwards are integrated into strong, cohesive in-groups, which throughout people's lifetime continue to protect them in exchange for unquestioning loyalty.

  

  Geert Hofstede
  • Protect
  • Integrated
  • Collectivism

• Roger King is, without a doubt, the greatest salesman in the history of anything. And I don't ever limit him just to television. He could sell you anything.

  

  Merv Griffin
  • Doubt
  • Television
  • Salesman

• Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Women
  • Sex
  • For Her

• Proactive giving is what you do when you've found your passion. It expresses your values, interests and concerns. It engages not just your dollars, but also your mind, time, skills and networks - the philanthropic equivalent of leaning in, rather than leaning back. Most importantly, proactive giving is something you want to do.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Giving

• 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