Joel A. Barker Quotes

You know, I feel like if I don't change something, then the results maybe are going to continue the way that they have. That for me is not something that I want to really be a part of.

I say something, and then it usually happens. Maybe not on schedule, but it usually happens.

I'm willing to do whatever I need to do to change.

Change takes effort. And the reality is, most people don't want to put in effort to better their life.

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Life... It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations.

I like to be part of the change I want to see in the world. Not being afraid of criticism is actually a big advantage.

Take hold of your future or the future will take hold of you

To transform yourself is to transform your destiny.

I'm very good in letting things go; there's always new things, and I'm a big believer in 'everything happens for a reason' kind of thing.

Each project, I can almost feel like I'm like a different person.

I've never been one to stay in a complacent place where I just let the grass grow around me.

There is a very beautiful expression in the Hebrew language that's borrowed from spoken Torah... 'All is predicted, and permission is given at any point to change anything.' I think I live by this idiom in the sense that there is always a goal; there is always something to look forward to in life and my creative search, and that goal is there.

I have always said that I am one to look forward rather than back; what has happened in the past I can't change now. What is forward, I can.

So many of us don't know what we want; we just know we don't want what we have. We spend 99% of the time talking about how bad it is, but only 1% of the time talking about how we can do something about it.

The future kind of gets less intimidating when you're the one shaping it.

There's not one moment from my journey that I'd want to change. Everything happens for a reason.

Having a sense of humour is really key. You have to have a sense of humour with these things and I've just tried to remain who I am. My life has changed. It's changed in the fact that I don't have the freedoms I did before, but I've also got a huge amount of other freedoms that came along with it.

. . . man is just what he thinks himself to be . . . He will attract to himself what the thinks most about. He can learn to govern his own destiny when he learns to control his thoughts.

Your courage draws people out of complacency into their destiny.

I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.

Real leadership comes from the quiet nudging of an inner voice. It comes from realizing that the time has come to move beyond waiting to doing.

How come I end up where I started How come I end up where I belong... You used to be alright What happened?

The great thing about living in New York is the constant change of things. It inspires me to keep moving, push forward, question ideas. I have a heavy travel schedule so being in a new environment always gives me another perspective to see things from.

You become what you believe.