Nancy Etcoff Quotes

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

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  Motivation, Inspiration, Negative

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• 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.

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  Touching, Listening, Essentials

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• The idea that beauty is unimportant is the real beauty myth.

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  Beauty, Real, Ideas

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• 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.

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  Beauty, Army, Priorities

  Nancy L. Etcoff (2000). “Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty”, Anchor

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• 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.

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  Real, Ideas, Myth

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

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  Beauty, Dream, Imagination

  Nancy L. Etcoff (2000). “Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty”, Anchor

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• 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.

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  Self, Mirrors, World

  Nancy L. Etcoff (2000). “Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty”, Anchor

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• throughout human history people have scarred, painted, pierced, padded, stiffened, plucked, and buffed their bodies in the name of beauty.

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  Beauty, Names, People

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• 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.

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  Cute, Children, Kids

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• 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.

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  Beauty, Plato, Heart

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• Physical beauty is like athletic skill: it peaks young.

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  Beauty, Skills, Athletic

  Nancy Etcoff (2011). “Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty”, p.77, Anchor

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