Barbara (Monique Andrée Serf) Quotes

An enlightened citizen is an indispensable ingredient of the infrastructure of democracy.

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• It isn't given to us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world. They will not be cured by our most efficacious drugs or slain with our sharpest swords.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • People
  • World
  • Moments

• Every picture that is successful has one little miracle in it.

  

  Elia Kazan
  • Picture
  • Successful
  • Miracle

• The body is simple as a turtle / and straight as a dog: / the body cannot lie.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • Simple
  • Body
  • Dog

• I think, that in the twenty-second century, there will be more female reincarnations at female institutions. Then there'll be competition between male lama institutions and female lama institutions. It'll be a positive sort of competition.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Thinking
  • Positive
  • Competition

• I don't think you need to be so result-oriented when you're trying to define the success of an art work. I think we can allow some unpredictability.

  

  Olafur Eliasson
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Trying

• I think music will always be a big part of my life. I can't go five minutes without singing, sometimes unconsciously. And people stare at me, and I'm wondering why they're staring, and then I'm realizing that I'm belting out a tune.

  

  Justin Timberlake NSYNC
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• It is changes that are chiefly responsible for diseases, especially the greatest changes, the violent alterations both in the seasons and in other things. (:)...regimen and temperature, and one period of life to another.

  

  Hippocrates
  • Changes
  • Diseases
  • Temperature

• To find recreation in amusements is not happiness; for this joy springs from alien and extrinsic sources, and is therefore dependent upon and subject to interruption by a thousand accidents, which may minister inevitable affliction.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Joy
  • Dependent
  • Minister

• Oh! that gentleness! how far more potent is it than force!

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Force
  • Gentleness
  • Potent

• If people insist that honor is dearer than life itself, what they really mean is that existence and well-being are as nothing compared with other people's opinions. Of course, this may be only an exaggerated way of stating the prosaic truth that reputation, that is, the opinion others have of us, is indispensable if we are to make any progress in the world.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Existence

• Leadership is scarce because few people are willing to go through the discomfort required to lead. This scarcity makes leadership valuable...It's uncomfortable to stand up in front of strangers. It's uncomfortable to propose an idea that might fail. It's uncomfortable to challenge the status quo. It's uncomfortable to resist the urge to settle...If you're not uncomfortable in your work as a leader, it's almost certain you're not reaching your potential as a leader.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Challenges
  • Leader
  • Failing

• “The first word you see at the airport is 'terminal'.”

  

  Beano Cook
  • Word
  • Airport
  • Terminal

• The delicate and infirm go for sympathy, not to the well and buoyant, but to those who have suffered like themselves.

  

  Catharine Beecher
  • Sympathy
  • Suffered
  • Delicate

• I have always held that a case in a court of justice should be open for all and for newspapers to report.

  

  Alfred Denning, Baron Denning
  • Justice
  • Open
  • Report

• For every show that we do, anyone that rides public transit, bikes, or walk, we offer them a $5 voucher at the merch table. It gets people using the infrastructure in the area. Hopefully, the venues where we play will lobby city council and say, we need bike paths, sidewalk repair. That stuff affects so many people's lives.

  

  Ben Sollee
  • Infrastructure
  • Affects
  • Repair

• An enlightened citizen is an indispensable ingredient of the infrastructure of democracy.

  

  Barbara
  • Enlightened
  • Infrastructure
  • Indispensable