"A lifestyle involves a cluster of habits and orientations, and hence has a certain unity - important to a continuing sense of ontological security - that connects options in a more or less ordered pattern. (...) [T]he selection or creation of lifestyles is influenced by group pressures and the visibility of role models, as well as by socioeconomic circumstances."

-- Anthony Giddens

#Role Models Quotes #Unity Quotes #Important Quotes

“the excess of all good things is mischievous.”
“Art collectors are pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. What matters and survives is the art.”

Source : Charles Saatchi (2009). “My Name is Charles Saatchi and I Am an Artoholic”, Phaidon Press
“The end comes when the infinites arrive.”
“The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.”

Source : "Vision and Leadership in Sustainable Development". Book by Chris Maser, 1999.
“The personal qualities necessary for attaining office are practically the opposite of those demanded by the office itself. The trouble with the damn system is that it selects for the skills needed to get elected, and nothing else. A test that you can only pass by cheating can't possibly select honest people.”

Source : James P. Hogan (1983). “Code of the Lifemaker”, Del Rey
“The glory of 70mm is the sharpness of the image it offers.”
“A way you can get really good abs in film is you get your makeup artist to paint shadows - faux washboard. But if you see me in a movie and I have great abs, it means I have a great body double.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“If we divide into two camps--even into violent and the nonviolent--and stand in one camp while attacking the other, the world will never have peace. We will always blame and condemn those we feel are responsible for wars and social injustice, without recognizing the degree of violence within ourselves. We must work on ourselves and also with those we condemn if we want to have a real impact.”

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