1075 Central Park Quotes

#1. There are lots of things I'm acquainting myself with now to be a more well-rounded person.

Idina Menzel

#2. Chang despised authority on principle, for even when veiled by the rubric of practical necessity or the weight of tradition he could not see institutional power as anything but an expression of arbitrary personal will, and it galled him profoundly.

Gordon Dahlquist

#3. Women right now, we can't make mediocre [stuff]. Men can and do make tons of mediocre stuff, but I feel like women ...

Abbi Jacobson

#4. It is not wrong to want to live better; what is wrong is a style of life which is presumed to be better when it is directed towards 'having' rather than 'being,' and which wants to have more, not in order to be more but in order to spend life in enjoyment as an end in itself.

Pope John Paul I

#5. Explain to people that everything they say is an affirmation. Everything they think is an affirmation. Everything! What you want to do is to get control of what you are saying and thinking, so these things bring you good experiences in life rather than rotten experiences.

Louise Hay

#6. You never fight your eye when you look at a hole. If it looks one way, play it that way. Don't make a big deal out of an easy shot.

Ben Hogan

#7. That all salespeople are different, that all accountants are different, that each individual, no matter what his chosen profession, is unique.

Marcus Buckingham

#8. Virtue is not photogenic. What is it to be a nice guy? To be nothing, that's what. A big fat zero with a smile for everybody.

Kirk Douglas

#9. In winter California became an older place, with secrets.

Nothing more distrusted in California than the impression of settledness.

That's what California is good for - dreaming of other places.

Pico Iyer

#10. Communication works for those who work at it.

John Powell

#11. We all really need to listen to each other, including to the boring bits.

Sherry Turkle

#12. And this, incidentally, is my thumbnail sketch of American marriage: A woman sees a man; she likes him. Now she jumps on this thing and rides it to some kind of standstill. Then she changes it and trains it, and to the exact degree that she's able to do this, she disrespects him.

Jack Nicholson

#13. If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less, but to dream more, to dream all the time.

Marcel Proust