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“Glamour doesn’t just happen, people don’t wake up in the morning glamorous.”
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Virginia Postrel
#Morning Quotes
#People Quotes
#Wake Up Quotes
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“In a dynamic, decentralized system of individual choice and responsibility, people do not have to trust any authority but their own.”
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Virginia Postrel
Source : Virginia Postrel (2011). “The Future and Its Enemies: The Growing Conflict Over Creativity, Enterprise,”, p.168, Simon and Schuster
#Responsibility Quotes
#People Quotes
#Choices Quotes
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“Progress through trial and error depends not only on making trials, but on recognizing errors.”
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Virginia Postrel
Source : Virginia Postrel (2011). “The Future and Its Enemies: The Growing Conflict Over Creativity, Enterprise,”, p.137, Simon and Schuster
#Errors Quotes
#Progress Quotes
#Trials Quotes
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“The mobile middle class gravitates to the cities where housing is affordable.”
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Virginia Postrel
#Class Quotes
#Cities Quotes
#Middle Quotes
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“Medicare is immune from the competitive pressures that force private insurers to pay attention to what patients and doctors want.”
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Virginia Postrel
#Doctors Quotes
#Attention Quotes
#Want Quotes
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“The impulse for personal adornment is hard to stamp out.”
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Virginia Postrel
#Stamps Quotes
#Impulse Quotes
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“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.”
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Virginia Postrel
#Smart Quotes
#Thinking Quotes
#Skills Quotes
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“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.”
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Virginia Postrel
Source : Virginia Postrel (2013). “The Power of Glamour: Longing and the Art of Visual Persuasion”, p.22, Simon and Schuster
#War Quotes
#Reality Quotes
#People Quotes
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“The glamour of air travel - its aspirational meaning in the public imagination - disappeared before its luxury did, dissipating as flying gradually became commonplace.”
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Virginia Postrel
#Air Quotes
#Luxury Quotes
#Imagination Quotes
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“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.”
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Virginia Postrel
Source : Virginia Postrel (2009). “The Substance of Style: How the Rise of Aesthetic Value Is Remaking Commerce, Culture, and Consciousness”, p.4, Harper Collins
#Real Quotes
#Communication Quotes
#Mba Quotes
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“Glamour is translucent — not transparent, not opaque. It invites us into the world but it doesn’t give us a completely clear picture.”
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Virginia Postrel
#Giving Quotes
#World Quotes
#Opaque Quotes
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“Glamour is all about transcending this world and getting to an idealized, perfect place.”
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Virginia Postrel
#Perfect Quotes
#World Quotes
#Glamour Quotes
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“At the simplest level, only people who know they do not know everything will be curious enough to find things out.”
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Virginia Postrel
Source : Virginia Postrel (2011). “The Future and Its Enemies: The Growing Conflict Over Creativity, Enterprise,”, p.88, Simon and Schuster
#Inspirational Quotes
#People Quotes
#Levels Quotes
