I tell people, if you're thinking about suicide, all that stuff I've attempted and thought about it. If you think about it, life gets better. The key to life when it gets tough is to keep moving. Just keep moving.
Tyler PerryRead
Don't wait for someone to green light your project, build your own intersection.
Interpretation
Take initiative and create your own opportunities instead of waiting for approval from others.
This quote by Tyler Perry emphasizes the importance of self-empowerment and proactivity in pursuing one's goals. Instead of waiting for validation or permission from others, individuals should take the initiative to forge their own paths, create their own opportunities, and seize control of their projects or ambitions, symbolically represented by 'building your own intersection.'
In practice
During a motivational speech to budding entrepreneurs.
I tell people, if you're thinking about suicide, all that stuff I've attempted and thought about it. If you think about it, life gets better. The key to life when it gets tough is to keep moving. Just keep moving.
Keep your dreams ALIVE. No matter how hard it gets, no matter how many people talk about you; they're going to throw dirt on you but that's alright, when they put you in that box (after your dead), they're going to put dirt on you some more, so that's okay - GO, don't be afraid, have NO FEAR.
I think there's something that happens at 40 where you settle into your own skin and you stop caring what people think - you realize life is a gift from God and you want to live it to the fullest.
My mother was truly my saving grace, because she would take me to church with her. I would see my mother smiling in the choir, and I wanted to know this God that made her so happy. If I had not had that faith in my life, I don't know where I would be right now.
I remember being a kid and praying in the hell of my house to have somebody love me and somebody that I could love.
You close the door on me and tell me I can't, I'm gonna find a way to get in.
I went to my boss, and I said, 'Look, I'd like to design these ties because I think they could be new.' He said, 'The world isn't ready for Ralph Lauren.' I never forgot that because... I thought that was a compliment.
I remember the first show I had there were about 3 people, at least there was somebody. The next one was about 30. Then a couple years later there were 300 people and before I knew it there were 3,000... Then one day, I opened my eyes and there were 300,000 singing all my lyrics.
For every finish-line tape a runner breaks -- complete with the cheers of the crowd and the clicking of hundreds of cameras -- there are the hours of hard and often lonely work that rarely gets talked about.
I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids.
Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
I just hate to lose. When I am on the court, it is like my life depends on it.
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