The French say you get hungry when you’re eating, and I get inspired when I’m working. It’s my engine.
Interpretation
The quote expresses how creativity and inspiration can flow from the act of working, similar to how hunger can arise while eating.
Karl Lagerfeld's quote highlights the idea that true inspiration often comes during the process of creation or work rather than before it. He likens this burst of creativity to the sensation of hunger, suggesting that as one engages in their craft, they become more inspired and motivated, using this natural drive as their 'engine' to fuel their work.
In practice
Use this quote to inspire a team during a brainstorming session.
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.
I want to be a cheerleader for women who have never even considered running for office or being involved in a campaign, but who in the quietness of their hearts might think, 'Why not me?'
I learned to ride a ten-speed when I was 4 or 5. My uncle gave me the bike, hand-me-down, and everyone used to stare at me riding up and down this block. I was too short to reach the pedals, so I put my legs through the V of the frame. I was famous. The little kid who could ride the ten-speed.
A man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.
I believe that inspiration is one of the most powerful forces in life. In career and in relationships, it's worth searching for the path that inspires you. Pursuing such a path often entails risk - it may involve making a big change in what you're doing - but the career risks we regret most are the ones we don't take.
Look to the lighthouse of the Lord. There is no fog so dense, no night so dark, no gale so strong, no mariner so lost but what its beacon light can rescue.
If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing.
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