Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen Covey

Technology and tools are useful and powerful when they are your servant and not your master.

Stephen Covey

Trust is the glue that holds everything together. It creates the environment in which all of the other elements win-win stewardship agreements, self-directing individuals and teams, aligned structures and systems, and accountability can flourish.

Stephen Covey

The role of the leader is to foster mutual respect and build a complementary team where each strength is made productive and each weakness irrelevant.

Stephen Covey

Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.

Stephen Covey

Synergy is the highest activity of life; it creates new untapped alternatives; it values and exploits the mental, emotional, and psychological differences between people.

Stephen Covey

Strength lies in differences, not in similarities

Stephen Covey

Don't get buried in the thick of thin things.

Stephanie Leonidas

The stunt team were great on Defiance. They were there, every day.

Suzanne Farrell

You're never more of an individual than when you're a happy team player.

Suzanne Collins

If I feel ragged, my prep team seems in worse condition, knocking back coffee and sharing brightly colored little pills. As far as I can tell, they never get up before noon unless there's some sort of national emergency, like my leg hair.

Suzanne Collins

It's hard to hate my prep team. They're such total idiots." - Katniss.

Suzanne Collins

Cleaning me up is just a preliminary step to determining my new look. With my acid-damaged hair, sunburned skin, and ugly scars, the prep team has to make me pretty and then damage, burn, and scare me in a more attractive way.

Suzanne Collins

I think of the snarling, cruel exchange back on the hovercraft. The bitterness that followed. But all I say is "I can't believe you didn't rescue Peeta." "I know," he replies. There's a sense of incompleteness. And not because he hasn't apologized. But because we were a team. We had a deal to keep Peeta safe. A drunken, unrealistic deal made in the dark of night, but a deal just the same. And in my heart of hearts, I know we both failed. "Now you say it," I tell him. "I can't believe you let him out of your sight that night," says Haymitch.

Steven Berkoff

The great actors we had came from the actor-manager theaters. Not only did they create a team, they were the generals working with the soldiers.

Summer Glau

I'm definitely one of those actresses who comes to a set knowing how I want to do a scene, and I definitely love input from my directors and my writers. I know that there's some actors who like to be left alone, they like to be very independent, but I actually really enjoy the teamwork.

Summer Glau

After doing 'Firefly' and moving on, I always wanted to be part of a series again. I love doing films, too, but there's just something special about being part of the team and feeling like you're actually a part of the family, and I always look to re-create that.

Sun Tzu

Someone unfamiliar with the mountains and forests cannot advance [the team]. One who does not employ local guides cannot gain the advantage.

Sue Wicks

You shouldn't just work on your jump shot. You should work on being a better person, a better teammate, and a better friend.

Sue Wicks

For me, being a starter doesn't matter. Of course, I'd like to be in at the end of the game, to be a big part of the team, and to play as many minutes as I can play. But starting and coming off the bench are two different challenges.

Sue Wicks

I even believe if you're killing a team, you shouldn't stop. You should respect your opponents enough to play 100 percent the whole time. And by the same token, if you're getting killed by the other team, you should never quit.

Stuart Law

The standard has gone up, whether that's down to the split divisions or more professionalism. People are raising the bar and wanting to emulate the England team.

Steven Tyler

I had been on the junior Olympic team in high school for trampoline; I could do twenty-six back flips in a row.

Robbie Wine

Splits just keep us where we are and we can't do that where we are. We don't wanna stay there. We wanna move. I'm sure Indiana is saying the same thing. ... Every team in the Big Ten is going to say the same thing. That's the reality of it.

Robbie Lawler

I just started training with the best fighters in the world trying to get better. I was a pretty good athlete so I did pretty well with the team and that gave me confidence that I would be able to compete with people.

Robbie Keane

I know it will take a little time to adapt to a different team and a different league.

Robbie Keane

I had expected to be playing in the reserves and, all going well, that I might get a chance in the first team towards the end of the season. But it has all happened much faster than I could ever have thought.

Robbie Keane

We have a great sense of togetherness. It is our team spirit that has taken us to this World Cup.

Ricky Ponting

I guess we speak pretty loosely, don't we, about looking forward to the Ashes and all that-and we are, but it's not with both eyes. We've got one eye on that and one eye on what we need to get in place to make sure we're the best team we can be for November.

Ricky Williams

I want to thank all my fans, teammates, coaches and supporters for the strength they've given me to overcome so much.

Ricky Williams

A team takes on the personality of the head coach.

Reed Hastings

Do not tolerate brilliant jerks. The cost to teamwork is too high.

Sammy Hagar

Ted Templeman, the producer, and Donn Landee, the engineer, are the same team that signed Van Halen, when they were called Mammoth. Donn convinced them to change it to the last name of the guitar player and drummer.

T. Boone Pickens

If you can provide the funding and you get the leadership, you'll have a competitive team.