Enrique Penalosa Quotes

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

• Happiness
• Friendship
• Measured
• Examples
• Public Space

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• There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Myself
  • Learn
  • Criticism

• I really enjoy being a dad, and maybe I took it too seriously, but I love being around my kids.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Love
  • Kids
  • Dad

• How do you create chemistry? If only I knew that! Some people say it's a natural thing that you have with someone, and maybe it is to do with that, but I think you can work on it.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • People
  • Work
  • Think

• Only a cheap politician, greedy for political gain, would try to single out one individual for blame. The fault lies not with the individual but with the system, and that system is Richard Nixon.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Political
  • Single
  • Lies

• We believe in freedom, freedom for the people of each country to follow their destiny without external interference.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • People
  • Believe
  • Country

• Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Important
  • Trying
  • Style

• Trivializing the Holocaust is the last thing I want to do.

  

  Hans Haacke
  • Want
  • Last
  • Holocaust

• I did model for a little while part-time, but I wasn't a bloody model, and I am definitely not that horrible thing 'model-turned-actress.'

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Time
  • Model
  • Actress

• In the early '90s, it was grunge; everybody was fully clothed. Alanis Morissette was one of the biggest artists in the world, never wore makeup, wearing Doc Marten boots, and then the Spice Girls turn up, and suddenly it all looks a bit burlesque; suddenly they're the biggest band in the world.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Up
  • World
  • Band

• I regret all of my books.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Books
  • Regret

• I didn't intend to run for public office. I didn't really think about it.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Think
  • Run
  • Office

• I've been musically inclined since I picked up an instrument in the fourth grade. I just really appreciate music. I love to listen to it; I love to sing. I wouldn't consider myself, like, a natural singer. I just developed it over time, honestly, just listening. I'm a great listener to music.

  

  Kyrie Irving
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• Glass and wearable technology is an example of another step in consumer-facing innovation that will change how we share the music experience with our fans in the future.

  

  David Bryan Bon Jovi
  • Music
  • Experience
  • Future

• I had written many things as a journalist, but I had no idea if I could write something scary or romantic or touching that wasn't me writing about someone else's life story. It was really exciting to try.

  

  Jeff Giles
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Romantic

• With this silent film, I wanted to hide what was going on in the clinic. I wanted to cover it up in the best cinematic way and in an entertaining manner.

  

  Pedro Almodovar
  • Up

• That raven on yon left-hand oak(Curse on his ill-betiding croak!)Bodes me no good.

  

  John Gay
  • Good
  • Hand
  • Raven

• Pray for divine guidance in your goal setting.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • Goal
  • Pray
  • Guidance

• Women have to make a living. We don't live in a wealthy world where we even have a choice. We're losing our choice of whether or not we need to work. If we want to work, we obviously should work and have that choice, but a lot of women can't even get to the word "want." They need to work. And it's great to see women who needed to work and found a way to become a firefighter or a steel worker. That, to me, is very exciting.

  

  Marlo Thomas
  • World
  • Work
  • Great

• Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- to be sucked back -- into it?

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Why

• The diameter of each day is measured by the stretch of thought - not by the rising and setting of the sun.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Day
  • Measured
  • Diameter

• 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
  • Happiness
  • Friendship
  • Measured