Joel Barker Quotes

#1. Usually the first problems you solve with the new paradigm are the ones that were unsolvable with the old paradigm.

Joel A. Barker

#2. When most of us hear the phrase, 'survival of the fittest,' we assume it originated with Charles Darwin. It did not. The phrase doesn't exist anywhere in Darwin's first edition of 'Origin of the Species.'

Joel A. Barker

#3. When you think about it, if the fittest always won, all forests should be completely homogeneous. One species should supplant all others as the most superior competitor. But it doesn't happen that way. Nor does it happen that way in the marketplace.

Joel A. Barker

#4. What religion cannot do, GRACE does! Grace empowered obedience beats striving and performing any time!! Every time!!

Floyd McClung

#5. I never learn anything from listening to myself (Ovid Byron, in Flight Behavior)

Barbara Kingsolver

#6. 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.

Joel A. Barker

#7. Sometimes it's best not to see your whole path laid out before you. Let life surprise you ... There are more stars out there than just the ones with names. And they're all beautiful.

Clare Vanderpool

#8. I want to give the people a lot more, and be able to perform more than just my one single and all my old songs ...

Juelz Santana

#9. However what Joana has inside her is something stronger than the love that people give and what she has inside her demands more than the love that people receive.

Clarice Lispector

#10. You will make a perfectly rational mistake: You will assume that sooner or later the paradigm you are presently practicing (which has been mostly successful) will solve all the rest of your problems.

Joel Barker

#11. The past guarantees you nothing in the future if the rules change.

Joel A. Barker

#12. A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself.

Joel A. Barker

#13. Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.

Joel A. Barker

#14. Electricity does not centralize, but decentralizes.

Marshall McLuhan

#15. Sometimes it feels good to fuck with something. Instead of always being fucked with.

Gillian Flynn

#16. There may be something to the suggestion about the pace of technological change intimidating writers, though - it's been awfully hard to keep ahead of real developments.

Stanley Schmidt

#17. The invention of the micro-loan was a big surprise to me. Who would have guessed loans of less than $20 made to poor people in undeveloped countries could create thriving local economies? And, even more surprisingly, that they more reliably pay off their debts than the wealthy of the world.

Joel A. Barker

#18. The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

Joel A. Barker