You can't convince someone else - whether it's a potential employer, a loan officer at the car dealership, or someone you've been crushing on - that you're amazing and terrific if you don't actually think you are.
Sophia AmorusoRead
One of the best things about life—a reason not to go blindly after one goal and one goal only—is that sometimes it will take you to something that is way cooler than anything you would have consciously set out to do in the first place.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Life can lead us to unexpected and better opportunities than we initially pursue.
In this quote, Sophia Amoruso highlights the beauty of life's unpredictability and the importance of being open to new experiences. Rather than fixating on a single goal, we should embrace the journey, as it may lead us to unexpected and fulfilling destinations that surpass our original intentions.
Themes
LifeGoalsOpportunityJourneyExperience
In practice
Example use cases
In a motivational speech about embracing unexpected opportunities in life.
More from Sophia Amoruso
All quotes →When your goal is to gain experience, perspective, and knowledge, failure is no longer a possibility
Sophia AmorusoRead
You don't get taken seriously by asking someone to take you seriously. You’ve got to show up and own it. If this is a man’s world, who cares? I’m still really glad to be a girl in it.
Sophia AmorusoRead
No matter where you are in life, you'll save a lot of time by not worrying too much about what other people think about you. The earlier in your life that you can learn that, the easier the rest of it will be.
Sophia AmorusoRead
Similar quotes
My shoes are clean from walking in the rain.
Jack KerouacRead
The best way to make room for both life and career is to make choices deliberately-to set limits and stick to them.
Sheryl SandbergRead
What happens when she's not my memory anymore? What happens when she's not around to tell me about his belt leaving scars across my two-year-old brother's face or when he whacked her so hard that she lost her hearing for a week? Who'll be my memory?" Santangelo doesn't miss a beat. "I will. Ring me." "Same," Raffy says. I look at him. I can't even speak because if I do I know I'll cry but I smile and he knows what I'm thinking.
Melina MarchettaRead
Everybody is an expert on one thing - that's what I learned in my high school journalism class - and that's, of course, his own life. And everybody deserves to live and have his story told. And if it doesn't seem like an interesting story, then that's the failure of the listener, or the journalist who retells it badly.
William T. VollmannRead
Leisure consists in all those virtuous activities by which a man grows morally, intellectually, and spiritually. It is that which makes a life worth living.
Marcus Tullius CiceroRead
My only boss was the clock on the wall and my only friend, never really was a friend at all. I've traded love for pennies, sold my soul for less. Lost my ideas in that long tunnel of time. And I've turned inside out and around about and back and then found myself right back where I started again
Jim CroceRead