"The adult public's taste is not necessarily ready to accept the logical solutions to their requirements if the solution implies too vast a departure from what they have been conditioned into accepting as the norm."

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Source : Raymond Loewy (2002). “Never Leave Well Enough Alone”, p.278, JHU Press

Raymond Loewy

#Departure Quotes #Requirements Quotes #Taste Quotes

“I was always superthin, too skinny, actually. I felt like someone could break me in half. I realize now that being a bit more curvy and toned is so much more beautiful.”
“Even as a fan, as someone who's into his performances, the Stooges and his own stuff, Iggy [Pop] is one of the people who kept underlining something that a lot of my older musician friends with punk roots say: you get into this space in your life where you feel like a weirdo, you're marginalised, you don't fit in... and then you can get up on stage in front of people who probably hate you.”
“At some point, there would simply be no point.”

Source : Lisa Genova (2009). “Still Alice”, p.135, Simon and Schuster
“We can understand that people, seeing this anti-charter slander by certain media, end up thinking â€˜Oh God, am I right to support the charter? Am I a good person?â€™ Well, yes, you are a good person, ladies and gentlemen, youâ€™re part of the majority of people who want a charter.”
“In my opinion, the greatest misconception about the market is the idea that if you buy and hold stocks for long periods of time, you'll always make money. Let me give you some specific examples. Anyone who bought the stock market at any time between the 1896 low and the 1932 low would have lost money. In other words, there's a 36 year period in which a buy-and-hold strategy would have lost money. As a more modern example, anyone who bought the market at any time between the 1962 low and the 1974 low would have lost money.”
“You know, many writers really don't like to write. I think this the chief complaint of so many. They hate to write; they do it under the compulsion that makes any artist the victim he is, but they loathe the process of sitting down trying to turn thoughts into reasonable sentences.”
“Happiness is about being proud of who you are. Be a good friend, be a good daughter, be reliable, be willing to laugh when things get tough, compliment other girls, care about your job, believe in yourself, be vulnerable, tell the truth, apologize when needed, forgive peopleâ€¦”
“If you want meaning, you read poetry or a novel or something, you don't read song lyrics. You're supposed to listen to them with music.”

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