Joel A. Barker Quotes
When you drop any new idea in the pond of the world, you get a ripple effect. You have to be aware that you will be creating a cascade of change.
Quotes to Explore
-
This is who I am: a flyspeck of human vanity in a trillion miles of stone-dead interstellar space; a graceless lump of flesh and fear in a remote desert where nearly everything that I can see or touch is designed to hurt me.
-
The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
-
Music is my release.
-
As every scuba diver knows, panic is your worst enemy: when it hits, your mind starts to thrash and you are likely to do something really stupid and self-destructive.
-
I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I've learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.
-
If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.
-
The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!
-
The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
-
I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.
-
Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.
-
The good life, as it is popularly conceived, typically involves acquiring mastery in one's work, thus gaining for oneself better terms - or means to rewards, whether material, like wealth, or nonmaterial - an experience we may call 'prospering.'
-
I think having children is the most amazing thing.
-
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
-
I went to Iraq in 2004 because I believe in doing my duty, not because I agreed with the war.
-
We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.
-
I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
-
New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?
-
I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.
-
Those who want the fewest things are nearest to the gods.
-
Somebody was asking me the other day - President Bush is now talking about freedom for the Arab world. I say, well, that's great. I was talking about that fifty years ago.
-
The truth is I love musical theater and always have.
-
When you drop any new idea in the pond of the world, you get a ripple effect. You have to be aware that you will be creating a cascade of change.
