T.R. Patrick Quotes

Experiential team exercises can be valuable tools for enhancing teamwork as long as they are layered upon more fundamental and relevant processes.

Just because I tread heavily on propriety's toes doesn't mean I can't play the game when it's of use to me.

The question before the House is one of awful moment to this country. For my own part, I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery

A troublesome question? Those tend to be the only whorthwhile kind.

I've stabbed two people with a fork today. What's wrong with me?

The Six Faces of the future are: Fast, Urban, Tribal, Universal, Radical and Ethical.

Owls are wise. They are careful and patient. Wisdom precludes boldness. That is why owls make poor heroes.

If you make something your life's work, make sure it's something you can feel proud of when you're an old relic like me.

Well, you know, I was through the whole of the Second World War and saw all my friends killed.

My mother is still battling alcoholism.

Being nervous isn't always the worst thing for me.

If your relationship with someone is based on your desire for them to change into something radically different, there's no real closeness there, no real communication.

A lot of people who are depressed, I think, are suffering from blocked creativity.

SM is an art. Doing it well requires more than a bag full of expensive whips and exotic electrical toys, a closet full of fetish clothes, or a basement filled with bondage furniture.

Responsibility without power is a really bad deal.

He is not bad, I don't think. Perhaps he is simply too lazy to be good.

My stepfather gave me a Kodak camera when I was 17 years old. I started working at a local photo store in Le Havre, France, taking passport pictures and photographing weddings.

And there was a very famous man called Michael Powell, who probably is the greatest director all round, except possibly a couple of men.

A politicians willingness to listen to good advice rises in inverse proportion to how badly he thinks he is doing.

For the last years now I've had my own academy where I train Brazilian Jujitsu and Tae boxing, Muay Thai everyday.

Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention.

Suspicion is a Virtue, if in the interests of the good of the people.

I swear I've never met a man who has your knack for lack of social grace. If you weren't naturally charming, someone would have stabbed you by now.

In most of the world, we have only small remnants of the wildlife that once existed. Africa has the most astonishing wildlife still.

Can collective intelligence save the planet? It's the only hope we have.

While I was at Microsoft, the annual revenues grew larger than the GDP of the Republic of Ghana.

When you're wearing the Avalanche logo, you battle.

I have had a few gentlemen let me know they find my manly beardiness somewhat alluring. Never any ladies though.

I have no balance. My life is a hot mess.

Life sure has a sick sense of humor, doesn’t it?

I've never been one to run from a challenge.

My only real daydreamy casting over the years has been Natalie Portman for Denna. She's an amazing actress, and Denna is going to be one of the hardest characters to pull off.

Everything is designed to help you sell out.

I read as many books about the psychology of a psychopath as I could and I researched what exactly happens to soldiers.

In my head, my business is architecture and furniture; it's 70 percent Prouvé, and Corbusier, Royer, Jeanneret - they all passed away. So it's retrospective, I'm looking back.

To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.

There's just something about dance. It's like a primal thing in all of us.

I look at albums like novels. If you write a really good scene or a really good moment, just because you wrote it, doesn't mean that it fits with the story that you're writing.

The paradox of innovation is this: CEO's often complain about lack of innovation, while workers often say leaders are hostile to new ideas.

I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family.

If you try to over-control what you think you will achieve, you'll miss what you can actually accomplish.

Tallulah [Bankhead] is always skating on thin ice. Everyone wants to be there when it breaks.

Be you own hero, be your own saviour, send all your suffering into the fire. Let no foot, mark your ground, let no hand, hold you down.

I have laid my cheek upon the earth and felt it my mother's bosom.

I'm getting older every day, and I'm going to be making music until I drop dead.

Part of being human is having a sense of humor.

I was really a charmer; I was the guy who would get to the office, the principal would sit me down and within 10 minutes, we'd be, like, talking about some movies or something.

Marriage is a wonderful thing.

Jack, you've debauched my sloth.

Mike and Harvey finally consummate things, a great cliffhanger