Enrique Penalosa Quotes

#1. Public space is for living, doing business, kissing, and playing. Its value can't be measured with economics or mathematics; it must be felt with the soul.

Enrique Penalosa

#2. To rise above the conflicting desires of others, there must be no conflict about your own.

Stephen Richards

#3. The essence of the conflict today, really, is cars versus people ... We can have a city that is very friendly to cars, or a city that is very friendly to people. We cannot have both.

Enrique Penalosa

#4. Children are a kind of indicator species. If we can build a successful city for children, we will have a successful city for all people.

Enrique Penalosa

#5. Specialization and organization are the basis of human progress.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#6. You don't have to like a man to respect him.

Janny Wurts

#7. God made us walking animals - pedestrians. As a fish needs to swim, a bird to fly, a deer to run, we need to walk, not in order to survive, but to be happy.

Enrique Penalosa

#8. I will take the subway and look at certain women and think 'God, that woman's story will never be told. How come that lady doesn't get a movie about her?'

Natasha Lyonne

#9. An advanced city is not one where even the poor use cars, but rather one where even the rich use public transport,

Enrique Penalosa

#10. An advanced city is not a place where the poor move about in cars, rather it's where even the rich use public transportation

Enrique Penalosa

#11. One symbol of lack of democracy is to have cars parked on the sidewalk.

Enrique Penalosa

#12. Urban transport is a political and not a technical issue. The technical aspects are very simple. The difficult decisions relate to who is going to benefit from the models adopted.

Enrique Penalosa

#13. Sailors have an expression about the weather: they say the weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society - things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed.

E.B. White

#14. Sometimes the mind relives things very clearly for us ... There are roads out of secret places within us along which we all must move as we go to touch others.

Romare Bearden

#15. A bikeway is a symbol that shows that a citizen on a $30 bicycle is equally important as a citizen on a $30,000 car.

Enrique Penalosa

#16. I had come across a few sports psychologists, and I had no time for nearly all of them. I just don't think they work in a team environment.

Brian O'Driscoll

#17. We need to walk, just as birds need to fly. We need to be around other people. We need beauty. We need contact with nature. And most of all, we need not to be excluded. We need to feel some sort of equality.

Enrique Penalosa

#18. I was almost impeached for getting cars off sidewalks which car owning upper classes had illegally appropriated for parking.

Enrique Penalosa

#19. God has positioned me just this way to be just like I am, to say what I say how I say it.

Steve Harvey

#20. It has long been a fact familiar to geologists, that, both on the east and west coasts of the central part of Scotland, there are lines of raised beaches, containing marine shells of the same species as those now inhabiting the neighbouring sea.

Charles Lyell

#21. It's a culmination of your life of surfing when you turn and paddle in at Mavericks.

Jeff Clark

#22. A protected bicycle lane in the city in a developing country is a powerful symbol, showing that a citizen on the $30 bicycle is as important as one in a $30,000 car

Enrique Penalosa

#23. Inside beauty sometimes needs a little help from outside pretty.

Karen DeWitt

#24. A premise of the new city is that we want a society to be as egalitarian as possible. For this purpose, quality-of-life distribution is more important than income distribution. [And quality of life includes] a living environment as free of motor vehicles as possible.

Enrique Penalosa

#25. Constant criticism can wear one down and weaken knees.

Marvin J. Ashton

#26. In every detail a city should reflect that human beings are sacred and that they are equal,

Enrique Penalosa

#27. The importance of pedestrian public spaces cannot be measured, but most other important things in life cannot be measured either: Friendship, beauty, love and loyalty are examples. Parks and other pedestrian places are essential to a city's happiness.

Enrique Penalosa

#28. If we're going to talk about transport, I would say that the great city is not the one that has highways, but one where a child on a tricycle or bicycle can go safely everywhere.

Enrique Penalosa