Jim Barksdale Quotes

I think they should separate Microsoft's application group from its operating system group.

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• One of the best teaching experiences Ed Schein and I had when we were teaching at MIT in the 1960s was inventing a course on leadership through film.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Best
  • Film
  • Leadership

• When something happens far back in the past, people often can't recall exact details. Blame depends upon point of view. There may be a villain, but reality is frustrating because it's often ambiguous.

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • People
  • May
  • Reality

• Everybody has their ups and downs, and that's what makes you tougher.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • You
  • Ups And Downs
  • Ups

• You must be independent and able to do for yourself. Then you do not have to marry a rich man; you can marry a poor one. And if it is wrong, you can go.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Man
  • Independent
  • Yourself

• Americans should be wary of the Muslim Brothers in Egypt but not scared of them.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • Scared
  • Brothers
  • Egypt

• I don't think anything I've written has been done in under six or eight drafts. Usually it takes me a few years to write a book. 'World's Fair' was an exception. It seemed to be a particularly fluent book as it came. I did it in seven months. I think what happened in that case is that God gave me a bonus book.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • World
  • God
  • Done

• Even before I went to the UN, I often would want to say something in a meeting - only woman at the table - and I'd think, 'OK well, I don't think I'll say that. It may sound stupid.' And then some man says it, and everybody thinks it's completely brilliant, and you are so mad at yourself for not saying something.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • May
  • Man
  • Woman

• Sculpture is something you bump into when you back up to look at a painting.

  

  Ad Reinhardt
  • Up
  • Painting
  • Look

• When women criticized men, I called it 'insight'... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.'

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Sexism

• Us comics guys tend to get really good at the things we draw a lot. I'm good at creepy old forests, Victorian houses, underground goblin cities, and beautiful but creepy fairies.

  

  Ted Naifeh
  • Good
  • Beautiful
  • Old

• In our world of sleek flesh and collagen, Botox and liposuction, what we most fear is the dissolution of the body-mind, the death of the brain.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • World
  • Mind
  • Death

• 'Molto Mario' was the show that sparked my entire interest in cooking.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Interest
  • Cooking
  • Show

• The voice of the Holy Father was like a light.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Father
  • Light
  • Voice

• I suppose I didn't cry in all the cancer crap stuff because I felt I couldn't lose the battle, and part of the battle was holding myself together.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Together
  • Myself
  • Cancer

• When my babe was born, they said it was premature. It weighed only four pounds; but God let it live.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • God
  • Live
  • Said

• Fifth Harmony is an entity or identity outside all of us, and I don't think anybody felt individually represented by the sound - we didn't make it.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • Think
  • Identity
  • Harmony

• Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Knowledge
  • Action
  • Useless

• An author frequently chooses solemn or overwhelming subjects to write about; he is so impressed at writing about Life and Death that he does not notice that he is saying nothing of the slightest importance about either.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Death

• Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined eternally to reenact their escape.

  

  Antonin Artaud
  • World
  • Men

• It's really important to be active in your community, whatever community that is... find allies and find people who you relate to and who make you stronger as a group.

  

  Katie Leclerc
  • People
  • Important
  • Community

• I'm not supposed to date you, Jenny." "That's what you said before." He leaned forward, his elbows on his knees. "I didn't think this was going to be a problem. I mean, I'm pretty good at not letting someone become important to me. I have to be if I want to make it to L.A." "I understand." He laughed. "How nice of you to understand, since you're the one making it a struggle for me! It would be so easy to make you important.

  

  Elizabeth Chandler
  • Important
  • Nice
  • Problem

• I'm honored and thrilled to represent such an iconic brand and to be a part of the Maybelline New York family.

  

  Frida Gustavsson
  • Family

• When you put biblical truth to the songs used in churches, you'll have the congregation leave singing the sermon. You'll have God's thoughts, things that are God-breathed, stuck in their heads. It's sad to think about a really catchy tune paired up with bad theology because that could, honestly, do a lot of damage in church.

  

  Laura Story
  • Thinking
  • Singing
  • Honestly

• I think they should separate Microsoft's application group from its operating system group.

  

  Jim Barksdale