Nancy Etcoff famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The formula for a happy marriage is five positive remarks, or interactions, for every one negative.
-- Nancy Etcoff

#Motivation #Inspiration #Negative
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

#Touching #Listening #Essentials
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

#Self #Mirrors #World
The idea that beauty is unimportant or a cultural construct is the real beauty myth. We have to understand beauty, or we will always be enslaved by it.
-- Nancy Etcoff

#Real #Ideas #Myth
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

#Beauty #Army #Priorities
Beauty is equal parts flesh and imagination: we imbue it with our dreams, saturate it with our longings.
-- Nancy Etcoff

#Beauty #Dream #Imagination
throughout human history people have scarred, painted, pierced, padded, stiffened, plucked, and buffed their bodies in the name of beauty.
-- Nancy Etcoff

#Beauty #Names #People
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

#Cute #Children #Kids
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

#Beauty #Plato #Heart
Physical beauty is like athletic skill: it peaks young.
-- Nancy Etcoff

#Beauty #Skills #Athletic

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