“I will always be there in the wings saying, 'You need to be good to people. You need to take your work seriously. You need to have integrity. You need to work with what you've got.”
― Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work
― Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work
“I have heard women complain about men holding doors for them,, as if it is inherently offensive and implies that they are weak. ... I would hold a door for anyone. ... It has to do with noticing our fellow human beings and saying, "I recognize that you're on this planet, and I don't want a door hitting you in the face.”
― Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work
― Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work
“Just the way it never rains when you have an umbrella, you'll never run into people if you look fantastic. But go outside in pajamas, and you'll run into every ex you have.”
― Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work
― Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work
“Call me a schoolmarm, but few things make me angrier than people not taking good care of library materials.”
― Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work
― Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work
“So perhaps the real secret to style is filling yourself to the absolute brim with engagement. Loving not wisely, but too well and all that.”
― Tim Gunn: A Guide to Quality, Taste and Style
― Tim Gunn: A Guide to Quality, Taste and Style
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