Barbara Kellerman Quotes

#1. Aspiring female leaders risk being liked but not respected, or respected but not liked, in settings that may require individuals to be both in order to succeed.

Barbara Kellerman

#2. shall be up before you are awake; I shall be afield before you are up; and I shall have breakfasted before you are afield. In short, I shall astonish you all." (All.)

Thomas Hardy

#3. What inspired me as a child is the same thing that inspires me now: being nice. I always try to one up everybody with verses and be lyrical and just stand for the art.

Joell Ortiz

#4. In short, women who do not opt out of demanding professional positions are more likely to opt out of demanding family obligations.

Barbara Kellerman

#5. You remember Donnie Brasco? It's the most notorious undercover movie ever; it's so street and so real. If you ever imagined yourself doing cop work, you imagined yourself getting pushed to that limit - seeing the furthest you can push yourself while still upholding the law.

Manny Montana

#6. You can play it safe, and I wouldn't blame you for it. You can continue as you've been doing, and you'll survive, but is that what you want? Is that enough?

J.M. Darhower

#7. They had kilts on instead of pants, but you just didn't see six feet-plus of immortal warrior panicking about anything often, but panicking in a kitchen with pots in their hands and the oven open while they peered inside in a puzzled manner was a very special and endearing type of panic.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#8. When once a man is launched on such an adventure as this, he must bid farewell to hopes and fears, otherwise death or deliverance will both come too late to save his honor and his reason. Ho, my beauties!

C.S. Lewis

#9. It's often difficult for us to act compassionately, but sacred art eases the difficulty by ennobling us.

Huston Smith

#10. Most characteristics associated with leaders are masculine: dominance, authority, assertiveness, and so forth.

Barbara Kellerman

#11. That's what I'll be. A silhouette, rarely seen, and yet believed in.

Ellen Hopkins

#12. Whoever thinks of stopping the uprising before it achieves its goals, I will give him ten bullets in the chest.

Yasser Arafat

#13. 'The Big Sleep' would have been a more effective study of nightmarish existence had the detective been more complicated and had more curiosity been shown about his sweetheart's relation to the crime.

Manny Farber

#14. What is assertive in a man can appear abrasive in a woman, and female leaders risk appearing too feminine or not feminine enough.

Barbara Kellerman

#15. He was so gorgeous ... Kurt. I don't know how I got lucky that way.

Courtney Love

#16. Sleeping is forbidden at the age of 22. It's all work and no play.

Usher

#17. LEWIS CARROLL'S CIPHER

Martin Gardner