Adam Gopnik Quote

Greatness can be contagious, but first there must be contact.

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

To create well I have to be in a good mood, happy and cool.

Live your life in such a way that you'll be remembered for your kindness, compassion, fairness, character, benevolence, and a force for good who had much respect for life, in general.

If I have one piece of advice to give you all about what to search for in your quest for What Next, it's to find where the line blurs between hard work and happiness for you. To find that thing where...

The richest man is he who lives simply but has an abundance of love and kindness to give away.

My father, [was] a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee. At worst? He never beat her, but his pure, inarticulate fury would fill the house for days...

An average man is egoistic, proud and has strong self esteem. They always require partners who massage their ego not those who will drag their ego to the mud.

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father l...

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.