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'm going to keep going until I succeed β or die. Don't think I don't know how this might end. I've known it for years.
The separation of talent and skill is one of the largest misconceptions in modern society. Talent is something you born with, but skill can only be attained through Hours and Hours of hard work perfecting your talent as a craft. Which is why Talent will fail you without skill.
The act of facing overwhelming odds produces greatness and beauty.
Don't wish it was easier, wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems, wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenges, wish for more wisdom. The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become. Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
I think the most important thing about playing is to walk out with confidence, look the people right in the eye and say 'Here I am,' and go and do your thing. As soon as they know you're confident, they're confident. As long as you adjust to them you're not in trouble. You should eyeball them, find out what they want, and give it to them. They didn't pay to come out and look at the tapestries.
If I'd won every single race and got pole everywhere, that would just be boring. It would suck. Where's the fun in that?
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