Tim Gunn Quotes

Everyone has a best feature, so find clothes and accessories to accentuate those, whether it's your shoulders or your long legs!

Tim Gunn

• Legs
• Shoulders
• Feature

I don't know why I've always been so captivated by architecture.

Tim Gunn

• Architecture
• Captivated

I'm honest about expressing my opinions. At the same time, I'm diplomatic in how I do critique things if I have a negative response.

Tim Gunn

• Honest
• Opinions
• Critique

There's nothing I like better than going to my apartment, closing the door, cooking my little dinner for one and just tuning out. My apartment really is my haven. It's a nest where I go to heal.

Tim Gunn

• Dinner
• Apartment
• Nest

I have my mantra about silhouette, proportion, and fit. I believe that when they are in harmony and balance, you'll look great in anything.

Tim Gunn

• Believe
• Harmony
• Mantra

I had this wonderful career and thought I would retire as a teacher.

Tim Gunn

• Career
• Teacher
• Retire

I found early on in teaching, if you're too blunt an instrument, the students discredit you and think you're just being mean. They're not interested in what you have to say.

Tim Gunn

• Teaching
• Students
• Interested

Take the high road. No matter how much strife, and consternation, frustration and anger you might be confronted with - don't go to that level.

Tim Gunn

• High
• Road
• Matter

Life is not a solo act. It's a huge collaboration, and we all need to assemble around us the people who care about us and support us in times of strife.

Tim Gunn

• People
• Life
• Collaboration

I learned early on in teaching how easy it is to hurt a young person and that's never my intention.

Tim Gunn

• Hurt
• Person
• Intention