Brenda Barnes Quotes

The most important thing about leadership is your character and the values that guide your life.

Brenda Barnes

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• I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good - which is the family.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • Good
  • Family
  • Interesting

• Those men who, in war, seek to preserve their lives at any rate commonly die with shame and ignominy, while those who look upon death as common to all, and unavoidable, and are only solicitous to die with honour, oftener arrive at old age and, while they live, live happier.

  

  Xenophon
  • Men
  • Live
  • War

• I'm a kind person; I don't have a really nihilist streak in me, but I respond to that kind of humour.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Me
  • Kind
  • Person

• I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Job
  • Sun
  • Did

• I work in a business of extremes, so when you are with someone who is very calm and logical, it's a great kind of balance to have.

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • Work
  • Great
  • Business

• I'd like to be curvier.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Like

• People say I am cheap, and I don't mind if they do.

  

  Ingvar Kamprad
  • People
  • Mind
  • Cheap

• It's so funny to think that I used to be a model and here I am doing arbitrage, shipping and negotiating margins, the list is endless.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • Model
  • Margins
  • Shipping

• No man ever listened himself out of a job.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Job
  • Man
  • Out

• I have no personal experience in the military. All I know about it is what I've seen in movies and read in books and watched on television. My knowledge is probably no more or no less than the average person's. 'A Brief Encounter with the Enemy' was created by taking bits and pieces from here and there, and then putting my own spin on them.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Experience
  • Knowledge
  • Military

• I can make dressing - or stuffing. Y'all call it stuffing up here, we call it dressing down there. It's really good dressing. That family recipe was passed on, and I love to make that.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • Up
  • Good
  • Family

• Many people have this image of me. For a long time, I cared about that.

  

  Ichiro Suzuki
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I had a weirdly awesome high-school experience.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • School
  • Experience
  • High

• My brother and I have been able to get on and have been very lucky to do things with our family that other people wouldn't have been able to do. But then again, we've also been able to live a normal life as well.

  

  Zara Phillips
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• I'm a pacifist by nature.

  

  Rafael Correa
  • Nature
  • Pacifist

• I am not interested in a long life. I am not afraid of these things. I don't mind if my life goes in the service of this nation. If I die today, every drop of my blood will invigorate the nation.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • Life
  • Long
  • Mind

• Decisions are always made with insufficient information. If you really knew what was going on, the decision would make itself.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Decision

• To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery. Not only Planck but also other physicists were intially at a loss as to what the proper context of the new postulate really was.

  

  Abraham Pais

• Whilst I may look good, I do find it hard to find the right man.

  

  Marie Helvin
  • Good
  • May

• Citigroup, Bank of America, and JP Morgan Chase should not be permitted to charge consumers 25- to 30-percent interest on their credit cards, especially while these banks received over $4 trillion in loans from the Federal Reserve.

  

  Bernie Sanders
  • America

• My name is Frank Iero and I hate mushrooms. All mushrooms. No matter how they're prepared, I feel like they're all slimy and they taste like dirt.

  

  Frank Iero My Chemical Romance
  • Hate
  • Mushrooms
  • Frank Iero

• Yes, for a long time but I admired her and respected everything that I could sort of see in her from a distance, the pillars of her life, the loyalties, the relationships. It all got my interest and also the looks.

  

  Andre Agassi
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• In Ireland, novels and plays still have a strange force. The writing of fiction and the creation of theatrical images can affect life there more powerfully and stealthily than speeches, or even legislation. Imagined worlds can lodge deeply in the private sphere, dislodging much else, especially when the public sphere is fragile.

  

  Colm Toibin
  • Life
  • Writing

• The most important thing about leadership is your character and the values that guide your life.

  

  Brenda Barnes
  • Life
  • Character
  • Leadership