Chip Kidd Quotes

Could you really love someone who was capable of falling in love with somebody else?

People change their positions all the time, the way they change their wives.

We in a nasty business, at times. I don't even say that in a good or bad way. It's just no place to get too emotional.

Women always left me because I wouldn't commit, but then nothing changes a relationship like commitment. If you move in with someone, you lose all respect for them.

I am deeply unsentimental.

Guys warning girls not to fall in love with them is so truly douchey that it should have a higher success rate.

He [Ma's Tooth] was part of her a minute ago but now he's not. Just a thing.

We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.

The universe is made up of experiences that are designed to burn out your attachment, your clinging, to pleasure, to pain, to fear, to all of it. And as long as there is a place where you’re vulnerable, the universe will find a way to confront you with it.

Your job is to preserve yourself, not to descend into their hole. It's a relief when you arrive at this place, the point of absurdity, because then you are free, you owe them nothing.

The world belongs to who doesn't feel. The primary condition to be a practical man is the absence of sensitivity.

Eventually, I told myself not to expect anything from him, and as a result it has gotten easier for me to take what comes.

The student's job is to stay open-minded, to quell the knee-jerk defensiveness we all possess in the face of suggestions for improvement, and to maintain patience when faced with a process that is often slow, confusing, and frustrating.

You are not your idea, and if you identify too closely with your ideas, you will take offense when they are challenged.

The sense of loss is such a tricky one, because we always feel like our worth is tied up into stuff that we have, not that our worth can grow with things we are willing to lose.

Never fall in love with an idea. They're whores.

People change, no use getting sentimental about it. Move on, find someone else.

Maybe you’re not willing to give up a lover who’s colder than you are.

Hatsumi had a pretty good idea that Nagasawa was sleeping around, but she never complained to him. She was seriously in love with him, but she never made demands. 'I don't deserve a girl like Hatsumi,' Nagasawa once said to me. I had to agree with him.

It has always happened hitherto that whenever I have begun to feel an attachment to places, persons, or things, of a merely temporary nature, I have been carried away from them. Amen! May I live as a stranger and pilgrim upon the earth. May we be brought to that better country where painful changes are known no more.

The thing that makes me most vulnerable is romantic relationship.

Attachment brings misery, unattachment brings blissfulness. So use things, but don't be used by them. Live life but don't be lived by it. Possess things, but don't be possessed by them. Have things - that's not a problem. I am not for renunciation. Enjoy everything that life gives, but always remain free.

There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally.

Don't take anything personally. Nothing others do is because of you.

Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them.