You may have done 20 great shows in a row and come to one, and it doesn't work. You never presume anything.
Nothing ever goes as planned in China.
The industry is such - there is no guarantee that a show would work only because it is airing.
Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing.
Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
I think expectations are sometimes dangerous things. I think the only thing you can be sure of is that it won't go to plan. I think that's the only thing that's definite.
You can’t trust cost-benefit analyses… agencies have a history of fudging their studies to make proposed projects to look better, understating the costs and overstating the benefits.
I often compare my voice to an old car you're only 50% sure will turn on when you need it to.
You go through these little phases and fads, and it never turns out the way you think it's going to turn out.
Hype covers every surface of mass culture, and sports fans are intimately familiar with it - the heavy-breathing buildup that leads, inevitably, to a first-round knockout or a 30-point blowout or a fourth-inning rainout.
Nothing is ever certain in football.
Sometimes you're doing really well, then, after three or four years, everything inexplicably crashes like a house of cards and you have to rebuild it. It's not like you get to a point where you're all right for the rest of your life.
Just because something's been good in the past doesn't mean it will continue to be good.
I am not opposed to the limited use of polygraphs in a case where a person is suspected of wrongdoing. But widespread use of the polygraph as a screening tool goes far beyond what is acceptable.
It is always best and safest to count on nothing from America but words.
If you compromise in the casting it is bound to expose eventually.
This business can be so fickle, and a lot of times, hard work isn't enough.
The use of the polygraph has done little more than create confusion, ambiguity and mistakes.
I have spent too long being able to manipulate the answers I want from market research to rely upon its findings any more than I do weather forecasts.
While it would be lovely to play well every week, that is simply not going to happen.
Lack of consistency is a weakness shared by all nations.
You can have one good game, but the next one could be a bad one.
Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.
If everything always went perfectly, I would feel like, When is the ball going to drop? Because good things don't always last. Maybe I'm a pessimistic person. When something just seems too good, I can't believe it.
In 1993, 89 of the 'Fortune' top 100 companies were administering the Myers-Briggs test to their employees. The philosophy behind personality tests is that they don't want you to be in the wrong kind of job. The tests have been completely exposed as nonsense.
