Like the rest of the genetic lottery, beauty is un... -Virginia Postrel

Like the rest of the genetic lottery, beauty is unfair. Everyone falls short of perfection, but some are luckier than others. Real confidence requires self-knowledge, which includes recognizing one's shortcomings as well as one's strengths.

Virginia Postrel Quotes to Explore

The children who are 'our future' will inherit a world created not just by parental devotion but by the sort of zealous, focused endeavors that can pr...

We've gone from a world in which Starbucks set a cutting-edge standard for mass-market design to a world in which Starbucks establishes the bare minim...

European nations began World War I with a glamorous vision of war, only to be psychologically shattered by the realities of the trenches. The experien...

Medicare is a monopoly: a central-planning bureaucracy grafted onto American health care. It exercises a stranglehold on the health care of all Americ...

The Internet ethos of diversity and competition runs exactly counter to uniform, gatekeeper-oriented medical culture - the technocratic philosophy of ...

In post-Vietnam, post-Watergate America, skeptical voters demand full disclosure of everything from candidates' finances to their medical records, and...

The growth of medical expenditures in the U.S. is not caused by administrative costs but by increases in the technical intensity of care over time - a...

Glamour is all about transcending this world and getting to an idealized, perfect place. And this is one reason that modes of transportation tend to b...

Barack Obama has brought glamour back to American politics - not the faux glamour-by-association of campaigning with movie stars or sailing with the K...

A world of few choices, whether in jeans or mates, is a world in which individual differences become sources of alienation, unhappiness, even self-loa...

Beauty Quotes to Explore

I think each woman has her own relationship to beauty....

The ever-renewed instances of beauty and fairness passing over the faces of the beings in the universe show that they are shadows of the manifestation...

There are two kinds of artists in this world; those that work because the spirit is in them, and they cannot be silent if they would, and those that s...

When I am going out, I am in ponytail, jeans, tees. I am just like any girl-next-door. Beauty is not external; it's internal. When you are a happy sou...

One of the big things I've learned over the years and I'm excited that Glossier perpetuates is that wherever you're at, in terms of your scope of know...

The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired....

It's good to have a reminder that we can love ourselves and be beautiful even though we don't really fit into certain standards of what beauty may be....

Like the rest of the genetic lottery, beauty is unfair. Everyone falls short of perfection, but some are luckier than others. Real confidence requires...

The Lord did not people the earth with a vibrant orchestra of personalities only to value the piccolos of the world. Every instrument is precious and ...

But the beauty of Einstein's equations, for example, is just as real to anyone who's experienced it as the beauty of music. We've learned in the 20th ...