Esther Perel Quotes
Trouble looms when monogamy is no longer a free expression of loyalty but a form of enforced compliance.
Quotes to Explore
-
In terms of achievement, the pride is very important to me. It keeps me going every day. The money is always second to me.
-
It used to be that you came out of school, and you got married - those who were going to get married. But my peers are getting married in their early 30s, so now there's like this extra 10 years of that angst.
-
At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
-
Why do we make records? Because we want to say something. Why are you in art? Because you want to say something. The second you don't have anything to say, you stop making art - you might start making product. And I'm interested in being an artist.
-
I loved being on the radio. Being paid to talk? It's like being paid to eat.
-
I don't think there is much American music.
-
When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.
-
A nonfiction author has to bring a platform with him - radio, a TV show or some kind of recognizable vehicle to help launch them. And the agent is really necessary to represent all of the business interests of the author.
-
To keep your job, you fire others or bench them or trade them. You have to do the thinking for 25 guys, and you can't be too close to any of them.
-
The people that really were important, that mattered, had a great foundation. I had no training. I had to learn while doing, and it was really difficult.
-
Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
-
Sure, if you're a well to do family, you always have the option of sending your children to private schools where teachers spend less time disciplining kids and more time teaching them. However, this option is beyond the reach of most households. And this is what makes school vouchers such a promising solution for lower and middle income families.
-
I have the picture in my mind of how emotional I will feel if I win again.
-
I'd like to do a story about the medieval ages where in every scene you'd sort of feel that you were in the 12th century. That would be great to get that feeling.
-
When I was working my way up, it seemed to me that only Westerns and 'Star Treks' or sci-fi movies could afford to get away with presenting the problems – like prejudice and desegregation, for instance – that we face in our everyday lives.
-
The golf ball has no sense at all, which is why it has to be given stern lectures constantly, especially during the act of putting.
-
You have to have a strong sense of self in this business - otherwise they're going to spit you out.
-
I always make time for the things that are important to me.
-
Baseball may be our national pastime, but the age-old tradition of taking a swing at Congress is a sport with even deeper historical roots in the American experience. Since the founding of our country, citizens from Ben Franklin to David Letterman have made fun of their elected officials.
-
Cobain the writer is funny and self-aware and snotty with a knack for off-the-cuff profundity. Remarking to a friend that his band will be called 'Nirvana,' he scribbles next to it the words 'Oooh eerie mystical doom.'
-
HBO exists because people must have a place to say "f***" on television as many times as they can.
-
'I did not ask for objections, but for comments, or helpful suggestions. I looked for more loyalty from you, Captain Hornblower.' That made the whole argument pointless. If Leighton only wanted servile agreement there was no sense in continuing.
-
Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.
-
Trouble looms when monogamy is no longer a free expression of loyalty but a form of enforced compliance.
