The best ideas I've had in my life are those I saw in my sleep, in the early morning.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the value of dreams and morning insights as sources of creativity and innovation.
Karl Lagerfeld suggests that some of his most valuable ideas emerged during his mornings after dreaming. This highlights the significance of subconscious thoughts and the potential for innovative thinking that can arise during restful periods, reminding us that inspiration can come from unexpected places, including our own dreams.
In practice
In a motivational speech about creativity, one could start with this quote to encourage others to appreciate their dreams.
I believe in sketching because there is something very sensitive in sketching, you know, in sketches that you don't have out of a computer that looks the same like everybody even if, later on, the dresses are OK, but I like to sketch, and I like to see trails made after my sketches that look the same. It is you know, what I like.
I'm open to everything. When you start to criticize the times you live in, your time is over.
If I could be reincarnated as a fashion accessory, it would be a shopping bag.
Chic is a kind of mayonnaise, either it tastes, or it doesn't.
Why should I stop working? If I do, I'll die and it'll all be finished. 'm lucky to work in the most perfect of conditions. I can do what I want in all kinds of areas. The expenses are not expenses. I would be stupid to stop that. Work is making a living out of being bored.
Elegance has nothing to do with fashion.
I believe that if you have revolutionary potential, you must make the world a better place and use it.
I've always done more than I ever thought I would. Becoming a professor - I never would have imagined that. Writing books - I never would have imagined that. Getting a Ph.D. - I'm not sure I would even have imagined that. I've lived my life a step at a time. Things sort of happened.
Whenever you want to produce something, do not depend upon the outside source: go deep and seek the Infinite Source.
My life goal is to see the world's one billion people with disabilities embraced and encouraged by the church.
I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.
We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor - got her master's with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.
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