“In great cities where people of ability abound, there is always a feverish urge to keep ahead, to set the pace, to adopt each new fashion in thought and theory as well as in dress - or undress.” PeopleWellsAbilityCitiesFashionTheoryDressesUrgesPaceGreat Cities Book:Delphi Complete Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Illustrated)
“People always ask what I would have done if I weren't doing what I'm doing. And I say I'd [still] be in fashion or in beauty. It's such a dream come true now because I have the ability to go into home [goods] and accessories as well.” PeopleIfsWellsStillsDoneHomeDreamAsksAbilityFashionGoodsDreams Come TrueAccessories Author:Aerin Lauder
“The need of an insecure psychiatrist to draw security from a virtuous adjustment to the conventionalities of his time and from a quest for approval from "the good and the great" may turn out to be another agent interfering with his ability to listen in a therapeutically valid fashion. This type of dependence gives rise to the danger that the psychiatrist may consider the changeable man-made standards of the society in which he lives to be eternal values to which he and his patients must conform.” MenNeedsGivingMayMadeValuesTurnsAbilitySecurityFashionDangerTypeEternalDrawsStandardsPatientAgentsApprovalQuestsVirtuousInterfereDependenceConformInsecureAdjustmentPsychiatristConventionality Book:Principles of Intensive Psychotherapy Source: Principles of Intensive Psychotherapy
“As much as there are intellectual choices to be made and all the rest of it, a great actor has the ability really, to disappear and lose themself in a kind of mystical fashion. My appreciation and fascination with true acting is really all over the book, definitely.” KindMadeBookChoicesActorsLosesAbilityActingFashionIntellectualAppreciationDisappearMysticalFascinationGreat Actors Author:Rebecca Miller
“For me, prose is never a poem. Because with prose there are so very few tools to create the music. And one of the most important tools missing is the ability to create silences, as you can in poetry by how you fashion the lines and breaks within the lines and stanzas.” ImportantLinesAbilitySilenceBreakFashionMissingToolsProse Author:Pattiann Rogers
“The ability to look at certain patterns with regards to urban fashion, with regards to swagger, with regards to cultural hegemony, with regards to the ways in which young people look at resistance culture as a pattern that should be mimicked and admired.” PeopleWayShouldLooksYoungCertainCultureAbilityFashionRegardPatternsResistanceUrbanSwaggerHegemony Author:Kehinde Wiley
“One of the things I'm most proud of about myself is my ability to fail in front of the world. You have to have that attitude when you want to experiment in art, in music, in writing, or in fashion.” WorldWritingArtAbilityAttitudeFailingFashionProud Author:Solange Knowles
“Indeed, many of the illegal crossers who have entered the country in the last two years after being detained have actually been either unaccompanied minors or families who request political asylum. The ability of the smugglers to attract large numbers of families and unaccompanied minors is a function of the inability of our immigration court system to process asylum claims in a timely fashion.” CountryPoliticalAbilityFashionImmigration Author:Alan Bersin
“I combine aspects of fashion, comedy, sculpture, video, painting all kind of in one multimedia sort of curriculum. New York is what gave me that kind of ability or freedom. People come here from all over the world to do something ambitious, and I think New York is really positive in that regard.” PeopleThinkingWorldKindAbilityComedyFashionPaintingAll KindsAmbitious Author:Chloe Wise
“I think fashion is the only thing I'm fully suited to do because I am super impatient, which I think is a good thing for fashion. I could never work on something for two years. I would do 20 things and finish none of them. I always admire people who have that ability to sustain something for that long a period.” PeopleThinkingLongAbilityFashionGood ThingsAdmireImpatient Author:Reed Krakoff