Josh Gondelman Quotes

When I was little, I wasn't so little. I had a big old round belly and I was really clumsy, but I was super confident.

I'm an east coaster, you know, I'm brought up in Toronto where it's very much, like, kind of a miniature New York in that there's a subway and you're surrounded by people a lot and, you know, you bump into people and you have interactions and you communicate and la la la.

I still want to be the guy who can get on the subway and check out the freak on the subway.

If you go into an underground train in London - probably anywhere, but chiefly in London - there's that sense of almost entering a ghostly dimension. People are very still and quiet; they don't exchange many pleasantries.

When you're on the subway in New York, people literally could be 11-inches away from you, and you can't just stare at them.

In Brooklyn, I don't feel that I'm holding up people with briefcases if I catch a stroller wheel in the sidewalk.

I hate people walking down the street listening to the soundtrack of their lives which responds to them but not their setting. I hate the overspill of sound which metro and subway riders are oblivious to because they notice no one and nothing around them.

A woman who walks well parts crowds - it's something we should all be taught to do.

I am a stereotypical northeasterner. I'm always in a rush. I've attracted stares from out-of-towners when I've shoved past someone blocking the subway door.

I don't want people to crowd around me and give advice on what I should and shouldn't wear. Style comes naturally to me.

When I go around in Kolkata, I do not get hassled.

I already know my size. I don't need reminding.

We have the alternative. "Do I want to be on the subway looking at these people, or do I want to be in my phone looking at my people?"

Girls who are dancers tend to be much better models than girls who just got picked off the street. Dance is a discipline, just like martial arts. No matter what you do, you have this sort of confidence that no one can take away from you - every time you step somewhere, you're sure of where you're going.

Physical exercise makes you more graceful. After some gymnasitics you walk as if the whole street is yours.

No matter how many times I visit New York City, I am always struck by the same thing - a yellow taxicab.

You can achieve what you believe you can. Trust and believe and have faith.

With uncertainty in one scale, courage and self-confidence should be thrown into the other to correct the balance. The greater they are, the greater the margin that can be left for accidents.

You have to believe in yourself despite the evidence.

I always believe I can beat the best, achieve the best. I always see myself in the top position.

A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course of victory.

She's quite skinny, like me, but nice skinny. Roller-skate skinny. I watched her once from the window when she was crossing over Fifth Avenue to go to the park, and that's what she is, roller-skate skinny. You'd like her.

Education helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations.

And there is something great about knowing that my only job is to be as happy as I can be about my life, and feel as good as I can about myself, and to lead as full and eventful a life as I can, so that it doesn’t ever feel like I’m just waiting around for some guy to ask me out. And most importantly, it’s good for us all to remember that we don’t need to scheme and plot and beg to get someone to ask us out. We’re fantastic.

There is no advice that I can give you, you will just have to trust yourself that when the time comes, you'll make the right decision.