I sleep seven hours. If I go to bed at two, I wake up at nine. If I go to bed at midnight, I wake up at seven. I don't wake up before - the house can fall apart, but I sleep for seven hours.
Interpretation
Prioritizing sleep is essential for maintaining balance in life and health.
This quote by Karl Lagerfeld emphasizes the importance of sleep as a non-negotiable aspect of his routine. It reflects a philosophy wherein he values rest and the restoration it brings, suggesting that regardless of life's chaos, he ensures he gets a full seven hours of sleep, highlighting the significance of self-care in achieving personal stability and well-being.
In practice
In a motivational talk about self-discipline and health, one could say, 'As Karl Lagerfeld emphasized, I prioritize my sleep, ensuring I rest for seven hours every night.'
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.
People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.
A boy told me if he roller-skated fast enough his loneliness couldn't catch up to him, the best reason I ever heard for trying to be a champion. What I wonder tonight pedaling hard down King William Street is if it translates to bicycles. A victory! To leave your loneliness panting behind you on some street corner while you float free into a cloud of sudden azaleas, pink petals that have never felt loneliness, no matter how slowly they fell.
Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.
Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.
A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men.
The vast majority of people are born, grow up, struggle and go through life in misery and failure, not realizing that it would be just as easy to switch over and get exactly what they want out of life, not recognizing that the mind attracts the thing it dwells upon.
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