Rosabeth Moss Kanter Quotes

There is no cure for ugly, but you can make yourself into a human optical illusion.

I'm the makeover queen. I love to do makeovers on people.

I think they put some lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig.

If you saw me without makeup, you wouldn't recognize me.

When I finish a film, I like to drastically change my appearance. I get sick of looking at the same thing in the mirror for months at a time. So when a film's over, I'll do something like shave my head.

When my hair is dyed, I feel like I'm 35 again.

Even if you're only wearing trainers and a vest, eyeliner will instantly transform you. People always look put-together when their make-up's on and their eyes are popping - just ask Amy Winehouse!

If you chase something too desperately, it eludes you.

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

I hate losing.

The starting point is a passionate anger at something that does not work very well.

If you yell at your box, I'm not really sure it's something where it should be a penalty. It seems like you hurt yourself.

I don't like losing, man.

When I force things, it just doesn't go well.

People have tried to glam me up over the years, but it just doesn't work.

Every few years, I change my look for the simple reason that I get bored. If you Google Image me, you will see so many different looks: long hair, short hair, clean shaven, beard, etc.

It is wrong to condemn people for doing a thing and then offer no alternative but failure. A person could get mad about that.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

I’d gone heavy on the black eye makeup until raccoons and I could pass for cousins.

Powerless rage can work miracles.

Why don't I just step out and slip into something more spectacular?

I got the idea she'd done her makeup up special for this. Not that she needed much. She was utterly and completely beautiful, except for the hate shining in her eyes.

Circumstances alter faces.

Nearly 100% of innovation-from business to politics-is inspired not by "market analysis" but by people who are supremely pissed off by the way things are.

What do I look like? The Wizard of Oz? You need a brain? You need a heart? Go ahead, take mine. Take everything I have.