#status

High status males had multiple wives or additional mating opportunities in the ancestral environment. ↗

— Keith Henson

#ancestral #environment #had #high #males

Attention is the way social primates measure status. It is highly rewarding because it causes the release of brain chemicals such as dopamine and endorphins. ↗

— Keith Henson

#because #brain #causes #chemicals #highly

My mother inspired me to treat others as I would want to be treated regardless of age, race or financial status. ↗

— Tommy Hilfiger

#financial #i #inspired #me #mother

The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it. ↗

— Warren G. Bennis

#challenges #leader #manager #quo #status

I find celebrity status difficult to bear when I am in the company of my mother. ↗

— Phil Donahue

#bear #celebrity #celebrity status #company #difficult

A president aiming for 'Great' or 'Near Great' status must do more. He must give lots of interviews, make records accessible, and heap the flattery on academia - each of which Mr. Bush has signally failed to do. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#accessible #aiming #bush #each #failed

Merely that I have a World Wide Web page does not give me any power, any abilities, nor any status in the real world. ↗

— Clifford Stoll

#does #give #give me #i #me

Children had a special status - protected from the outside world - and they dressed for the part in a way that made that special status immediately visible to themselves and the adults. ↗

— Maggie Gallagher

#dressed #had #immediately #made #outside

A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#appetite #appropriation #child #comes #desire

Our working hypothesis is that the status of knowledge is altered as societies enter what is known as the postindustrial age and cultures enter what is known as the postmodern age. ↗

— Jean-Francois Lyotard

#altered #cultures #enter #hypothesis #knowledge