Pizarsky Quotes & Sayings

As wonderful as they were, my parents didn't teach me anything about self-discipline, concentration, patience, or focus. If I hadn't had a family myself, I probably never would've done anything. Marriage taught me responsibility. — Dick Van Dyke

I'm very bullish on the streetcar. — Anthony Foxx

when God is the captain of your ship, your future looks a whole lot brighter than your past! — P.L. Wilson

Don't just discover . . . Encounter! — J.P. Osterman

So Mr. Pizarsky had been a poet? That was how he'd said it: "I was a poet." As if the poet had died. He was hiding, perhaps. — Helen Oyeyemi

Combinatorics, a sort of glorified dice-throwing. — Robert Kanigel

Sunsets are my escape into the reality I want to continuously live. — Rachel Roy

Corporate strategy is usually only useful if you get people engaged with helping you to make it work. — Max McKeown

There's a confidence and a mental toughness that comes from the very highest level of competition, whatever the sport is. Whether it's boxing or wrestling, or whatever. — Joe Rogan

Men and women just look at sex in very, very different ways. — Juno Temple

Get it? Gender is a country, a field of signifying roses you can walk through, or wear tucked behind your ear.

Eventually the flower wilts & you can pick another, or burn the field, or turn & run back across the tracks.

(from "Essay on the Theory of Motion") — Cameron Awkward-Rich

Life is meaningless, when we take a life we take nothing of value. — Brent Weeks

One of the major biases in risky decision making is optimism. Optimism is a source of high-risk thinking. — Daniel Kahneman

You have to admit you're a jerk and that everything was all your fault." "So, like, what men are supposed to do in general," I said. — Gillian Flynn

Some girls can't stand to be around the guy they like. They get really nervous, and rather than make fools of themselves, they just stay away. I was the opposite; the more I liked a guy, the more I wanted to be around him. I was the type who'd join the same org, or pick the same elective. Sure I was probably looking like a fool five times a day over a bunch of things, but I liked being close to someone I admired. — Mina V. Esguerra

I think probably with any performer, but maybe with rock music especially, the audience wants to see the singer being real, and exploring, and not doing a rehearsed routine, so I'm just constantly looking for new things to try. I'm really curious out there, and my curiosity has led me into all kinds of bizarre situations. — Rivers Cuomo