Nancy Etcoff Quotes

#1. Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall.

Frank Lloyd Wright

#2. This one Corbusier lamp was like, my greatest inspiration ... I'm a minimalist in a rapper's body.

Kanye West

#3. She was herself, the original. Everyone else was just a copy.

Jon Courtenay Grimwood

#4. In Brazil there are more Avon ladies than members of the army. In the United States more money is spent on beauty than on education or social services.

Nancy Etcoff

#5. Adam said the other blessing you have to give up in the outside world is darkness.

Chuck Palahniuk

#6. Beauty is equal parts flesh and imagination: we imbue it with our dreams, saturate it with our longings.

Nancy Etcoff

#7. Problems often look overwhelming at first. The secret is to break problems into small, manageable chunks. If you deal with those, you're done before you know it.

Bill Watterson

#8. In every revolution, there's one man with a vision."
(Star Trek: "Mirror, Mirror")

James T. Kirk

#9. Let the small changes culminate to something grand.

R.V. Johnson

#10. You cannot win a battle in any arena merely by defending yourself.

Richard M. Nixon

#11. Failing often is the only way to ever get the things you want out of life.

David McRaney

#12. You're a precious treasure and if they are serious about you, let them hunt you and pay the expensive price you deserve to get you. Don't settle for cheap!!

Assegid Habtewold

#13. Concern for the environment is a central tent of Islam, yet in contemporary debates over environmental issues there has been virtually no reference made to Islamic teaching

Mawil Izzi Dien

#14. Physical beauty is like athletic skill: it peaks young.

Nancy Etcoff

#15. Beauty draws us in. We can't stop looking or listening or touching. It takes us outside ourselves and it motivates us. It's essential to life and to happiness.

Nancy Etcoff

#16. When abused children under court protection were studied in California and Massachusetts, it turned out that a disproportionate number of them were unattractive ... abused kids had head and face proportions that made them look less infantile and cute.

Nancy Etcoff

#17. In day-time we investigate, but at night believe.

James Slack

#18. The formula for a happy marriage is five positive remarks, or interactions, for every one negative.

Nancy Etcoff

#19. Appearance is the most public part of the self. It is our sacrament, the visible self that the world assumes to be a mirror of the invisible, inner self.

Nancy Etcoff

#20. He glanced at her. "You were the moon of my existence; your moods dictated the tides of my heart."
The tides of her own heart surged at his words, even though his words were nothing but lies.

Sherry Thomas

#21. Beauty ensnares hearts, captures minds, and stirs up emotional wildfires. From Plato to pinups, images of human beauty have catered to a limitless desire to see and imagine an ideal human form.

Nancy Etcoff

#22. The idea that beauty is unimportant is the real beauty myth.

Nancy Etcoff

#23. Courage is inseparable from love and leads to what may arguably be the noblest of all warrior virtues: selflessness.

Steven Pressfield