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.
I encourage you to accept that you may not be able to see a path right now, but that doesn't mean it's not there.
Awake, awake, English nobility! Let not sloth dim your horrors new-begot.
I knew I could do it all this time,β said Harry, βBecause I'd already done it... does that make sense?
When I quit my internship and started doing standup to pursue my dreams and do that full time - I feel like that's when I 'Americaned.'
I think at the beginning of a project, you decide if you're in love with the idea and what it's about, or what you think it's about at that time at least. Then you commit to it, and once you've commit to it no matter what, no matter how many self doubts you have, you're in it. The ship's sailed, you can't turn around.
Who has begun has half done. Have the courage to be wise. Begin!
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