Joe Barnes Quotes

“If you want to be truly outstanding, you can’t think like everybody else.”

“It’s the idea that the consensus majority opinion defines what can and can’t be done, what is and isn’t acceptable and what’s cool and what’s not. Therefore, anything outside of these boundaries is feared, ridiculed or avoided, creating an immense pressure to conform.”

“So long as we ‘play small’ others will accept us because we share the common bond of mediocrity.”

“We get sucked even further into the system’s trance through information overload. Magazines, newspapers, internet, iPads, mobile phones, computer games, advertising, radio stations and satellite TV make it all too easy to remain in a permanent trance like state.”

“You’ll feel the sting even more poignantly if you buy into the system’s credo that the more you have, and the more you own, the happier you will be.”

“Your options are now clear; Stick to the system’s path and never have to face any tough, soul searching moments but forever close yourself off to greatness.

Or, take the road less travelled, be prepared to face all of your demons but remember that if you make it through to the other side, in the words of Martin Luther King, you’ll be, ‘ready to face anything'.”