Steve Burke (Stephen B. Burke) Quotes

I'm a very competitive person... I've run 12 marathons! I kayaked around Manhattan 29 miles in October! I ran the Berkshire Hathaway 5K! And I want every part of the business to compete - and play to win.

Steve Burke

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• Competitive

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• You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Work
  • Girl
  • Yourself

• I don't like to run. You will not see me running on a treadmill ever. Ever! I like boxing, though, so if I can go to the gym and box for 30 minutes, I will.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Me
  • Running
  • Gym

• One has to be fully committed to one's career. Otherwise, there's no point.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Career
  • Point
  • Committed

• What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Real
  • Art
  • Soul

• I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Why
  • Way
  • Like

• I first went to India because of my interest in yoga, hoping to go to the Iyengar Centre in Pune for a while. That didn't work out, but I ended up on a beach in Goa, writing.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Up
  • Work
  • Writing

• The nature of an ensemble means when you're a supporting character and not the lead character, you get little tidbits here and there, but you're usually there to provide bits of comic relief and little bits of action or something.

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • Character
  • Nature
  • Action

• Why would you want to be be counseled in your grief? It's too private.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Why
  • Want
  • Grief

• All I have to do is to work on transition and technique.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Work
  • Technique
  • Transition

• I should be concentrating on writing pages.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Writing
  • Should
  • Pages

• I think it would be hard to go the distance in this business without a sense of humor.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Business
  • Think
  • Distance

• The condition which high friendship demands is ability to do without it.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • High
  • Friendship

• For the first time in human history the psychology that is a prerequisite for intimacy has become the psychology that is a prerequisite for species survival.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Time
  • History
  • Survival

• Forget the telly, we just go to the crib, watch a movie in the Jacuzzi and smoke Ls while you do me.

  

  The Notorious B.I.G.
  • Movie

• Learn not only to find what you like, learn to like what you find.

  

  Anthony J. D'Angelo

• Kip Keino, Moses Tanui, Paul Tergat, they all come from my tribe. Some say it is the food we eat that makes us strong, the way we live. In the history of our people we wear no clothes and we are used to drinking the blood of animals.

  

  Martin Lel
  • People
  • Live
  • History

• I don't like the idea of 'I've played nine years, I've made some All-Star teams, I make the most money. I've got to be a leader.' That doesn't make you a leader. Treating people the right way is more important.

  

  Matt Holliday
  • People
  • Important
  • Money

• One thing my mother did is that she never looked in the mirror and said, 'I'm so fat,'or 'I'm so ugly. I need to go on a diet.' Projecting that onto yourself is only going to make your daughter or son think that of themselves. Because they're a product of you.

  

  Ashley Graham
  • She
  • Mother
  • Son

• I have a Bolex, Aaton, Arriflex, Eyemo, Filmo, Mitchell, Photosonic, Beaulieu, Keystone - just about every movie camera you can think of.

  

  James Jannard
  • Movie

• A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Career
  • Night
  • Cold

• I never went to business school. I was just bumbling through a lot of my life. I was like the guy behind the curtain in The Wizard of Oz.

  

  David Geffen
  • Life
  • School
  • Business

• I've experienced, in general, in New York, people cut to the chase a little more, and they're a little bit more straightforward. In L.A. I've experienced more wishy-washiness. I will say, though, that the people that are actually from L.A. - like, born and raised in L.A. - are the real nice and genuine people.

  

  Kether Donohue
  • People
  • Real
  • Nice

• I'm a very competitive person... I've run 12 marathons! I kayaked around Manhattan 29 miles in October! I ran the Berkshire Hathaway 5K! And I want every part of the business to compete - and play to win.

  

  Steve Burke
  • Business
  • Win
  • Competitive