T.R. Patrick Quotes

Hurried business is bad business.

I will admit he is unusual, but that is perhaps the closest I could come to complimenting him.

Here is another miserable mental image I will have to catalog and make room for.

Do you know how much a hundred dollars is?' he asked. I said that I did not and he answered, 'It is a hundred dollars.

Why were you feeling low? Why does anyone? It creeps up on you from time to time.

He only wished to fight and cultivate an anger toward me, thus alleviating his guilt, but I would not abet him in this.

...things I had come to find humor in would make your honest man swoon.

Where is your mother, Charlie asked. Dead. I’m sorry to hear that Thank you. But she was always dead.

...I am happy to welcome you to a town peopled in morons exclusively. Furthermore, I hope that your transformation to moron is not an unpleasant experience.

Every product and service is sold on the promise of a better future. The purpose of business is to deliver on the promise, and profit is the reward for doing so.

Strong ethics keep corporations healthy . Poor ethics make companies sick. Values are the immune system of every organisation.

I would rather work with five people who really believe in what they are doing rather than five hundred who can't see the point.

All the most powerful speeches ever made point to a better future.

If happiness could be bought, we'd probably be unhappy at the price tag. If only the secret of happiness was as simple as getting wealthy and spending more.

Mission is at the heart of what you do as a team. Goals are merely steps to its achievement.

To every trend there is a counter-trend. There are a number of pendulums operating and each creates new business opportunities.

You can have the greatest strategy in the world but what is the point if no one cares?

Give people a convincing reason and they will lay down their very lives.

The future of marketing belongs to honest information, accurate data and clear claims based on truth.

When you have been close to death it makes you think about life.

You cannot have strong leadership without passion.

Volunteering is a window into the passions of the soul.

You will learn more about the people you work with in three minutes by asking them what they do for nothing, than by working with them for three years in the same team

In banking or insurance trust is the only thing you have to sell.

Listen to your customers but don't (always) believe what they say-they know even less about the future than you.

Institutional blindness is a major threat to the future of all corporations.

The larger the corporation, the greater the risk that you are flying blind.

I'm an inherently happy person. It comes from the inside, which means you can achieve happiness under any circumstance.

I worked with my dad for 15 years. I apprenticed under him and decided I wanted to become an architect. So I went to college for it and then the acting bug got me.

I'm one of the lucky actors in television. I don't make a lot of big waves, but there's constant activity, and that's the way I prefer to live my life.

It's as simple as you can explain all of 'Dallas.' We're a dysfunctional family forced to stay together.

I feel that marrying younger and being quite a young dad helped me with the stability of my career.

Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.

I learned to travel, then I travelled to learn.

Dancers are a work of art - they are the canvas on which their work is painted.

I never knew what basketball was. I started playing on the playground. People used to laugh at me and joke at me because I was so tall and I didn't know the game and couldn't play it.

Every time when they would call my name I kept hearing 'New York Knicks' instead of 'Seattle SuperSonics.

I'm sure at some point I will get back into coaching, but right now I need to focus completely on my kids.

Winning a ring is everybody's goal, whether you're a player or a coach.

Amare, Carmelo Anthony, Chauncey Billups - they're virtually unstoppable.

Umm - it was - you know - umm - a good game. You know.

Just so we're clear, I'm not zen by any stretch of the imagination. However, what I've read about change being the only constant is a concept that I can grab onto and have used quite a lot.

I'm so blessed to have been a working actor. If they still would like to make me a superstar, I'm available, but so far, being a working actor has been great. It's taken me everywhere.

I think 20 years of experience really came to fruition and enabled me to be able to play Cotton Marcus.

I think any actor will tell you that they always assume they'll never work again, so every job becomes important.

You make a horror film that's not very good. You'd be joining a long line, in a long video aisle, of stuff that doesn't work.

Love is hanging out at the ocean, watching my wife and little girls play in the sand. I know, I threw up a little too, but it's true.

I also swim four to five times a week, and once you get rolling into a rhythm of breathing and movement, your mind can truly untether, which I find so refreshing.

Actors and preachers are people who stand up on stage and have no problem talking and they have no problem saying, "Listen to me. Follow me. I know what I'm talking about."

At some point in my career, I was thinking, "Why am I not a star? Why am I not Brad Pitt? Why am I not Tom Cruise?"