Every genius I have met could be classified as crazy by most people. They possess the highest level of sanity that us people find difficult to understand and accept. Barbara Walters More Quotes by Barbara Walters More Quotes From Barbara Walters Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out. Barbara Walters women nice success Work harder than everybody. You're not going to get it by whining, and you're not going to get it by shouting, and you're not going to get it by quitting. You're going to get it by being there. Barbara Walters quitting hard-work being-there The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself. Barbara Walters drawn-together trust-yourself motivation To excel is to reach your own highest dream. But you must also help others, where and when you can, to reach theirs. Personal gain is empty if you do not feel you have positively touched another's life. Barbara Walters gains helping-others dream Life sometimes brings enormous difficulties and challenges that seem just too hard to bear. But bear them you can, and bear them you will, and your life can have a purpose. Barbara Walters purpose challenges bears Don't let the bastards get you down. Barbara Walters successful-entrepreneurs best-business entrepreneur Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but have never met. Barbara Walters women acceptance inspirational This is what I tell, especially young women, fight the big fights. Don't fight the little fight... Be the first one in, be the last one out. Do your homework, choose your battles. Don't whine, and don't be the one who complains about everything. Fight the big fight. Barbara Walters badass battle fighting If it's a woman it's caustic, if it's a man it's authority, If it's a woman it's too pushy, if it's a man it's aggressive in the best sense of the word. Barbara Walters authority literature men Don't worry about finding your bliss right now. Not even our President knew what his bliss was, nor did I. One of these days to your own surprise, your bliss will find you. But no matter what you do, participate, be there, full force, full heart, full steam ahead. Barbara Walters president worry heart I didn't get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart! Barbara Walters marriage girl sleep It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man. Barbara Walters nice men believe I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming increasingly spiritual. The success of the Da Vinci code - even though it was a great yawn - also showed people's interest in religion. Barbara Walters spiritual people interesting Children are God's way of punishing us for having sex. Barbara Walters children sex way I first interviewed Fidel Castro 39 years ago. He was charming and fiercely guarded about his private life. He called our interviews 'fiery debates.' During our times together, he made clear to me that he was an absolute dictator and that he was a staunch opponent of democracy. Barbara Walters democracy together years A job is not a career. I think I started out with a job. It turned into a career and changed my life. Barbara Walters work jobs thinking The origin of a modern party is anthropological: humans meet and share food to lower hostility between them and indicate friendship. Barbara Walters modern party share When you're interviewing someone, you're in control. When you're being interviewed, you think you're in control, but you're not. Barbara Walters interviewing-someone thinking Most old people ... are disheartened to be living in the ailing house of their bodies, to be limited physically and economically, to feel an encumbrance to others - guests who didn't have the good manners to leave when the party was over. Barbara Walters party house people Large cocktail parties are an infamous technique for ridding yourself of social obligations to people you usually don't know well or like much, which is such an unpromising beginning that I've rarely known one that recovered and turned into a great party. Barbara Walters technique party people
