Dress Your Best Life Quotes

“you; we need to merge the two, and we can use accessories to do it. The idea, I told her, is not to do a magical transformation where you leave the old you behind and suddenly you’re a new person. You need to evolve, and so does your style. Style Rx”
― Dawnn Karen, Dress Your Best Life: Harness the Power of Clothes To Transform Your Confidence

“Freud says human beings can keep no secrets. They reveal their innermost selves with their clothes, with their twitches, with their unconscious mannerisms; that whatever we do, we’re expressing things about ourselves, for people who have eyes to see and ears to hear.”10”
― Dawnn Karen, Dress Your Best Life: How to Use Fashion Psychology to Take Your Look -- and Your Life -- to the Next Level

“In society,” she told the New York Times Magazine, “we are what we’re dressed as.”
― Dawnn Karen, Dress Your Best Life: How to Use Fashion Psychology to Take Your Look -- and Your Life -- to the Next Level

“One important study published in the journal Psychological Science revealed that we determine someone’s attractiveness, likability, trustworthiness, competence, and aggressiveness within one hundred milliseconds of seeing them.2”
― Dawnn Karen, Dress Your Best Life: How to Use Fashion Psychology to Take Your Look -- and Your Life -- to the Next Level

“Katherine MacKenett: “Mountains do not rise without earthquakes.”
― Dawnn Karen, Dress Your Best Life: How to Use Fashion Psychology to Take Your Look -- and Your Life -- to the Next Level

“Not all storms come to disrupt your life,” tweeted the novelist Paulo Coelho. “Some come to clear your path.”11”
― Dawnn Karen, Dress Your Best Life: How to Use Fashion Psychology to Take Your Look -- and Your Life -- to the Next Level

“UC Davis biological scientist Lawrence V. Harper writes in the Psychological Bulletin, published by the American Psychological Association: “Currently, behavioral development is thought to result from the interplay among genetic inheritance, congenital characteristics, cultural contexts, and parental practices as they directly impact the individual. Evolutionary ecology points to another contributor, epigenetic inheritance, the transmission to offspring of parental phenotypic responses to environmental challenges—even when the young do not experience the challenges themselves.”9 In other words, our lived experiences are possibly seared into our genes. Trauma, some scientists contend, may be heritable.”
― Dawnn Karen, Dress Your Best Life: How to Use Fashion Psychology to Take Your Look -- and Your Life -- to the Next Level

“The Gift of Fear, and Other Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence, security expert Gavin de Becker writes, “When it comes to danger, intuition is always right in at least two important ways: 1) It is always in response to something. 2) It always has your best interest at heart.”3”
― Dawnn Karen, Dress Your Best Life: How to Use Fashion Psychology to Take Your Look -- and Your Life -- to the Next Level