K.J. Parker Quotes

Before you tell your life what you intend to do with it, listen for what it intends to do with you.

The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.

Be a sponge. Curiosity is life. Assumption is death. Look around.

Being single used to mean that nobody wanted you. Now it means you're pretty sexy and you're taking your time deciding how you want your life to be and who you want to spend it with.

The first two pictures I did, I played a young student in prep school. When I did Lifeguard, everyone was saying, You're so Southern California. It was a surprise to me

You've got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand, forget all that and just wail.

the best leaders try to train their followers themselves to become leaders. ... they wish to be leaders of leaders.

Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in womb?

Part of the task of the leader is to make others participate in his leadership. The best leader knows how to make his followers actually feel power themselves, not merely acknowledge his power.

Community doesn't just create abundance - community is abundance. If we could learn that equation from the world of nature, the human world might be transformed.

Four be the things I'd have been better without: love, curiosity, freckles and doubt.

As we speed along this endless road to the destination called who we hope to be, I can't help but whine, 'Are we there yet?'.

If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them.

I do love my avocados, which are great for the skin. I eat pretty healthfully.

Coercive power is the curse of the universe, coactive power, the enrichment and advancement of every human soul.

The role of design at a company is to allow you to recreate yourself, to allow your company to find a new way of success before the old way fails.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, a medley of extemporanea, And love is a thing that can never go wrong, and I am Marie of Romania.

Saying goodbye doesn't mean anything. It's the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it.

I can feel myself dying inside.

In crowds we have unison, in groups harmony. We want the single voice but not the single note; that is the secret of the group.

Sure, I have advice for people starting to write. Don't. I don't need the competition.

I think it's great that young girls have the WNBA to look up to now.

That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say 'No' in any of them.

I don't have role models or watch much TV. I go to awards ceremonies but often I don't even know who the people are. I think that's good, because then you don't have preconceived ideas about them.

In terms of the creative side of it, it's really been a thing where you come up with the funny stuff is usually at a bar or out talking to people or whatever.

I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do.

I don't believe in email. I'm an old-fashioned girl. I prefer calling and hanging up.

A flirt is like a dipper attached to a hydrant; every one is at liberty to drink from it, but no one desires to carry it away.

Mediocrity is underrated.

Running a start-up is like eating glass. You just start to like the taste of your own blood.

One gets, sensitive about losing mornings after getting a little used to them with living in a country. Each one of these endlessly varied daybreaks is an opera but once performed.

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved,it would be much simpler, but much less magical

It's the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be.

I'd like to have money. And I'd like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that's too adorable, I'd rather have money.

Procrastination is like a credit card: it's a lot of fun until you get the bill.

The Tonkawa killed him it make my heart hot. I want my people follow after white way. Some white people do that, too.

People have a problem with me being different, but that propels me forward in life.

At its deepest level, I think teaching is about bringing people into communion with each other, with yourself as the teacher, and with the subject you are teaching.

Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.

I just really enjoy the process of working with other talented, creative people. There's great power in bringing diverse points of view together. It can be incredibly stimulating.

Drinking coffee is kinda my major hobby... the great benefit of being an actor is you have all this spare time. My ideal is just hanging out with people - I think I am innately lazy.

If you do not enjoy what you are doing, you will never be good at it.

Writer's block? I've never heard of a plumber complain about plumber's block.

People have a way of becoming what you encourage them to be - not what you nag them to be.

I believe in the gold standard. I like solid lumps of things. You can always melt them down.

Only Christ could have conceived Christ.

A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.

Gratitude is not only the memory but the homage of the heart- rendered to God for his goodness.

The easiest way to do something is properly.

I'm going to go away on vacation, I'm going to try to get away from the phone, away from scripts. I think it's important to sit back and think about what you want