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Quotes About Lifestyle

The car has become... an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete.
~ Marshall McLuhan
If you are painter it's your whole existence. It's not an activity
~ Martin Gayford
Americans, I'd learned, walked less than any other industrialized nation on earth, with the average US native taking 5,117 steps daily compared to 9,695 in Australia, 7,168 in Japan and 9,650 in Switzerland.
~ Martin Lindstrom
Danish kitchen manufacturers often use the term "Conversation Kitchen" to refer to an expensive, well-appointed kitchen that is used less often for cooking than it is as a theatrical backdrop for entertaining guests. I've
~ Martin Lindstrom
The brands we like, and buy, and surround ourselves with—and by now you know I define a "brand" as anything from the music on our playlists to our shoes, to our sheets, to our toothpaste, to the artwork hanging on our walls—have the profoundest possible things to say about who we are.
~ Martin Lindstrom
Food tells you everything about the way people live and who they are.
~ Martin Scorsese
I normally don't eat junk food.
~ Martin Yan
Las explicaciones de los estilos de vida son como las patatas fritas. La gente insiste en comérselas hasta acabar con toda la bolsa.
~ Marvin Harris
Many would have resented the arrogance and disdain, the double standards and the lifestyle of their rich neighbours; lack of zoning in Roman cities may have had its equitable side, but it also meant that the poor constantly had their noses rubbed in the privilege of others. What
~ Mary Beard
Pleasure is sweeter as recreation than as a business.
~ Raymond Hitchcock
God Bless America! For taking a day off their busy life style, & calling it Thanks Giving! Turning that day into a National Holiday, just to Say! Thank You Lord, for Blessing Us so Bountiful!
~ Unknown
As we had no electricity we also had no "idiot box" and therefore felt no envy. Except
~ Unknown
Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.
~ Mary Quant
What if we have become virtually addicted to the heightened sensory stimulation that composes much of our daily lives and cannot stop ourselves from pursuing it incessantly, as Judith Shulevitz suggests in6 The Sabbath World: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time and as technology experts in "persuasion design" principles know very well?
~ Maryanne Wolf
I'm definitely bicoastal, but I have to say, it's easier to live in New York than in L.A. I feel like people respect other people's space a bit more here.
~ Mary-Kate Olsen
To understand someone, find out how he spends his money.
~ Mason Cooley
I've talked to some drummers who seem to have a very hard time staying in shape on the road, including some drummers touring with high-profile acts that don't have to live on fast food every night.
~ Matt Cameron
The reason you are a runner is that you enjoy running. The objective of everything you do as a runner should be to increase our preserve your enjoyment of running.
~ Matt Fitzgerald
So, as physical health and mental health are intertwined, couldn't the same be said about the modern world? Couldn't aspects of how we live in the modern world be responsible for how we feel in the modern world?
~ Matt Haig
In one life she only ate toast.
~ Matt Haig
On Earth, social networking generally involved sitting down at a non-sentient computer and typing words about needing a coffee and reading about other people needing a coffee, while forgetting to actually make a coffee. It was the news show they had been waiting for. It was the show where the news could be all about them.
~ Matt Haig
But we kind of know that turning life into a desperate race for more stuff is only going to shorten it. Not in years, not in terms of actual time, but in terms of how time feels.
~ Matt Haig
Maybe we should be looking at how we live, and how our minds weren't made for the lives we lead. Human brains- in terms of cognition and emotion and consciousness- are essentially the same as they were at the time of Shakespeare or Jesus or Cleopatra or the stone age.. Maybe instead of worrying about upgrading technology and slowly allowing ourselves to be cyborgs we should have a little peek at how we could upgrade our ability to cope with all this change.
~ Matt Haig
Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
~ Matthew Arnold