George Barna Quotes

If you want to have a lasting influence upon the world, you must invest in people's lives; and if you want to maximize that investment, then you must invest in those people while they are young.

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• As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.

  

  Basil Rathbone
  • People
  • More
  • Less

• It's always humbling, knowing where we came from. From being friends with the janitor in the bar and being friends with the waitress - because they were some of the only people that were listening when we finished playing - to this, we are able to appreciate every single person and every single piece of it, because we came from nothing to this.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • People
  • Friends
  • Single

• It's important for cinema to keep on evolving: for people, and not only teenagers, to be able to go to a movie that has huge epic scope but has an intellectual and real story to tell.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • People
  • Important
  • Real

• Open-minded people tend to be interested in Buddhism because Buddha urged people to investigate things - he didn't just command them to believe.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Believe
  • Buddha

• Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • Life
  • Best

• If you're passionate about your work, it makes the people around you want to be involved too.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • Work
  • Want

• When I'm on the red carpet, most people say, 'Who the hell is that?' It's downright embarrassing.

  

  Callum Blue
  • People
  • Red
  • Hell

• I found that being with happy positive people annoys me.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • People
  • Happy
  • Positive

• When you're in a high-stress situation, dynamics between people can change.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • People
  • High
  • Change

• The magazine, the daytime show, we've always tried to write affordable, accessible. Those are key words for us, and I do mean us, a huge staff of people at the magazine who love to cook affordable, friendly food that helps families eat better for less.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • People
  • Love
  • Words

• My favorite role is mommy. I know that sounds cheesy to people who don't have kids, or there are even some moms who think it's cheesy. It's a role you can't prepare for; it's a role you don't get paid to do, but it is the most rewarding role, and to me, it's been the most fulfilling.

  

  Vanessa Lachey
  • People
  • Kids
  • Think

• Software tends not to kill people, and so we accept incredibly fast innovation loops because the consequences are tolerable and the results are astonishing.

  

  Dan Kaminsky
  • People
  • Innovation
  • Software

• When you're singing you can hear the echo of people in the audience singing every single word with you, and that was that big dream that I had for myself. It's happening.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Dream
  • Single

• Latinos finally have a genre of music that represents them, and they're supporting reggaeton in such huge numbers that people can't help but notice there's a revolution going on.

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • Music
  • Help

• There's people making babies to my music. That's nice.

  

  Barry White
  • People
  • Music
  • Nice

• I just really want to do good work and work with some great people, people who challenge me.

  

  Salli Richardson
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• If you look at a multi-player game, it's the people who are playing the game who are often more valuable than all of the animations and models and game logic that's associated with it.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • People
  • Game
  • Player

• I'd rather have 100,000 people who really get what I'm doing and like it for what it is than a million who can take it or leave it.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • People
  • Doing
  • Million

• I have a group of four or five friends that I consider my friends and best friends and people that I want to hold onto for the rest of my life.

  

  Kyle Schmid
  • People
  • Life
  • Friends

• Oftentimes we don't manifest what we want in our lives, because our energy is too focused on what others are doing in their lives. This lack of focus in our own life, dilutes our energy and we leak our creative potential into other people's soul experience.

  

  Sabrina Salerno
  • People
  • Life
  • Experience

• Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs.

  

  Carroll O'Connor
  • People
  • Business
  • Running

• If I can't drive my old pickup to wherever I'm going, well, chances are good that I just won't go.

  

  Ward Churchill
  • Good
  • Old
  • Drive

• If we intend to provide a better life, and a better world, for future generations, we can't ignore the quality of the environment we leave them.

  

  John Kasich
  • Life
  • World
  • Future

• If you want to have a lasting influence upon the world, you must invest in people's lives; and if you want to maximize that investment, then you must invest in those people while they are young.

  

  George Barna
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