Don't waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long, and in the end, it's only with yourself
Interpretation
Jealousy is unproductive; focus on your own journey and progress.
In this quote, Baz Luhrmann emphasizes the futility of jealousy, reminding us that life is a long, often unpredictable race where our only true competition is ourselves. Rather than comparing ourselves to others and feeling envy, it is more beneficial to concentrate on our personal growth and achievements.
In practice
In a motivational speech about personal development.
If you wanted to show a mirror to people that says, 'You've been drunk on money,' they're not going to want to see it. But if you reflected that mirror on another time they'd be willing to. People will need an explanation of where we are and where we've been, and 'The Great Gatsby' can provide that explanation.
Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.
All good, clean stories are melodrama, it's just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.
We must all wage an intense, lifelong battle against the constant downward pull. If we relax, the bugs and weeds of negativity will move into the garden and take away everything of value.
You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly.
I give myself permission to be all that I can be, and I deserve the very best in life.
Brethren, do something; do something, do something! While societies and unions make constitutions, let us win souls. I pray you, be men of action all of you. Get to work and quit yourselves like men. Old Suvarov's idea of war is mine: `Forward and strike! No theory! Attack! Form a column! Charge bayonets! Plunge into the center of the enemy! Our one aim is to win souls; and this we are not to talk about, but do in the power of God!'
A positive attitude will have positive results because attitudes are contagious.
If you no longer go for a gap that exists, you are no longer a racing driver.
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