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.
In my mind I'm going to Carolina. Can't you see the sunshine, can't you just feel the moonshine? Ain't it just like a friend of mine, to hit me from behind, and I'm goin' to Carolina in my mind.
Buying flowers is not just a way to bring home beauty. It's an expression of confidence that better days are coming. It's a defiant finger in the face of those naysayers who would have you believe your fortunes will never improve.
Nothing happens... but first a dream.
If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
God wants you to be in the world, but so different from the world that you will change it. Get cracking.
I want to be a force for real good. In other words. I know that there are bad forces, forces that bring suffering to others and misery to the world, but I want to be the opposite force. I want to be the force which is truly for good.
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