Virginia Postrel Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“Glamour doesnâ€™t just happen, people donâ€™t wake up in the morning glamorous.”
-- Virginia Postrel

#Morning #People #Wake Up
“In a dynamic, decentralized system of individual choice and responsibility, people do not have to trust any authority but their own.”
-- Virginia Postrel

#Responsibility #People #Choices
“Progress through trial and error depends not only on making trials, but on recognizing errors.”
-- Virginia Postrel

#Errors #Progress #Trials
“The mobile middle class gravitates to the cities where housing is affordable.”
-- Virginia Postrel

#Class #Cities #Middle
“Medicare is immune from the competitive pressures that force private insurers to pay attention to what patients and doctors want.”
-- Virginia Postrel

#Doctors #Attention #Want
“The impulse for personal adornment is hard to stamp out.”
-- Virginia Postrel

#Stamps #Impulse
“The SAT is not perfect. We all know smart, knowledgeable people who do badly on standardized tests. But neither is it useless. SAT scores do measure both specific knowledge and valuable thinking skills.”
-- Virginia Postrel

#Smart #Thinking #Skills
“European nations began World War I with a glamorous vision of war, only to be psychologically shattered by the realities of the trenches. The experience changed the way people referred to the glamour of battle; they treated it no longer as a positive quality but as a dangerous illusion.”
-- Virginia Postrel

#War #Reality #People
“The glamour of air travel - its aspirational meaning in the public imagination - disappeared before its luxury did, dissipating as flying gradually became commonplace.”
-- Virginia Postrel

#Air #Luxury #Imagination
“Aesthetics has become too important to be left to the aesthetes. To succeed, hard-nosed engineers, real estate developers, and MBAs must take aesthetic communication, and aesthetic pleasure, seriously. We, their customers, demand it.”
-- Virginia Postrel

#Real #Communication #Mba
“Glamour is translucent â€” not transparent, not opaque. It invites us into the world but it doesnâ€™t give us a completely clear picture.”
-- Virginia Postrel

#Giving #World #Opaque
“Glamour is all about transcending this world and getting to an idealized, perfect place.”
-- Virginia Postrel

#Perfect #World #Glamour
“At the simplest level, only people who know they do not know everything will be curious enough to find things out.”
-- Virginia Postrel

#Inspirational #People #Levels

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