Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.
Coco ChanelRead
Keep your heel, head and standards high.
Interpretation
Maintain high standards and confidence in yourself.
This quote by Coco Chanel emphasizes the importance of self-respect and maintaining high standards in life. It suggests that by keeping our self-esteem and aspirations elevated, we can navigate through challenges with grace and poise.
In practice
During a motivational speech to encourage students to pursue their dreams.
Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.
Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.
Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
You can be gorgeous at thirty, charming at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.
Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.
Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.
There's no agony like [getting started]. You sit in a room, biting pencils, looking at a typewriter, walking about, or casting yourself down on a sofa, feeling you want to cry your head off.
I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
Dum Spiro, spero- As long as I breathe, I hope.
Effort and hard work construct the bridge that connects your dreams to reality.
We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.
There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.
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