It's not the days that are old, it's you that's old.
Interpretation
The quote suggests that aging is a personal experience rather than a measure of time itself.
This quote highlights the idea that it is not the passage of days that makes one feel old, but rather one's own perception and mindset about aging. It implies that vitality and youthfulness are tied to oneβs attitude and outlook on life, rather than just the number of years lived.
In practice
In a motivational speech about embracing life changes, one could say this quote to highlight the importance of youthfulness in spirit.
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.
If you knew who walked beside you at all times, on the path that you have chosen, you could never experience fear or doubt again.
Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data.
When you are trying to impress people with words, the more you say, the more common you appear, and the less in control. Even if you are saying something banal, it will seem original if you make it vague, open-ended, and sphinxlike.
Keeing busy" is the remedy for all the ills in America. It's also the means by which the creative impulse is destroyed.
Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.
Other men may preach the gospel better than I, but no man can preach a better gospel.
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