Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then...do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.
Lee IacoccaOver the years, I have come to realize that the greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity, or power, but self-rejection. Success, popularity, and power can indeed present a great temptation, but their seductive quality often comes from the way they are part of the much larger temptation to self-rejection. When we have come to believe in the voices that call us worthless and unlovable, then success, popularity, and power are easily perceived as attractive solutions. The real trap, however, is self-rejection. As soon as someone accuses me or criticizes me, as soon as I am rejected, left alone, or abandoned, I find myself thinking, "Well, that proves once again that I am a nobody." ... [My dark side says,] I am no good... I deserve to be pushed aside, forgotten, rejected, and abandoned. Self-rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the sacred voice that calls us the "Beloved." Being the Beloved constitutes the core truth of our existence.
Henri J.M. NouwenTags: truth success identity christianity faith self temptation feelings spiritual-warfare beloved rejection spiritual-life
Success nullifies. You then have to do it again, preferably differently
Karl LagerfeldTags: inspirational success fashion chanel designer
Chanel is an institution, and you have to treat an institution like a whore – and then you get something out of her
Karl LagerfeldTags: inspirational success fashion chanel designer
For me, Chanel is like music. There are certain notes and you have to make another tune with them
Karl LagerfeldTags: inspirational art success music fashion notes chanel designer
The French say you get hungry when you’re eating, and I get inspired when I’m working. It’s my engine
Karl LagerfeldTags: inspirational art success work fashion french create chanel hungry designer
Fashion does not have to prove that it is serious. It is the proof that intelligent frivolity can be something creative and positive
Karl LagerfeldTags: success beauty people fashion positive intelligent proof beautiful creative frivolity fabulous chanel chic designer inteligence
Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests
Karl LagerfeldTags: inspirational art success poetry fashion chanel designer
Rich will be my life if I
can keep my memories full
and brimming, and record
them on clear-eyed
mornings while I set
joyously to work setting
pen to holy craft.
Tags: life success writing writers work memories craft roman novelist payne novel-writing rooftop-soliloquy succeeding
...at some point you need to stop looking out at others and start looking inward, at yourself, at your own accomplishments, at your own foibles, at your own successes and your own failures. It's only when you begin to look inward that you can begin to have an effect on those out there, the ones with the greedy eyes and outstretched hands.
Scott F. FalknerTags: success writing writers failure
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