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“Make it work”
― Tim Gunn

“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.”
― Tim Gunn, Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work

“I believe that treating other people well is a lost art.”
― Tim Gunn, 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.”
― Tim Gunn, Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work

“Few activities are as delightful as learning new vocabulary.”
― Tim Gunn, Tim Gunn: A Guide to Quality, Taste & Style

“You can be too rich and too thin, but you can never be too well read or too curious about the world.”
― Tim Gunn, 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.”
― Tim Gunn, Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work

“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.”
― Tim Gunn, Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work

“I don't know if people have gotten ruder or if my tolerance level has declined.”
― Tim Gunn

“I'm not sure what the moral is here...I really just wanted to tell that story.”
― Tim Gunn, Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work

“As long as we have Netfix, Turner Classic Movies, Amazon, YouTube, and bookstores, there is no excuse ever to lack inspiration.”
― Tim Gunn, Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work

“I would certainly rather the industry not go broke, but if that's what it takes for everyone to acquire some values and lose that sense of entitlement, maybe a little belt-tightening wouldn't be so tragic.”
― Tim Gunn, 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, Tim Gunn: A Guide to Quality, Taste & Style

“The work is at such a high level and is so well executed, it really is a matter of taste... [Source: Project Runway — but consider, applied to the theme of book reviews, it seems apropos!]”
― Tim Gunn

“You know people like this, right? People who are incapable of enjoying anything.”
― Tim Gunn, Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work

“I am a stickler for good manners, and I believe that treating other people well is a lost art. In the workplace, at the dinner table, and walking down the street--we are confronted with choices on how to treat people nearly every waking moment. Over time these choices define who we are and whether we have a lot of friends and allies or none.”
― Tim Gunn, Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work