Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.
Coco ChanelRead
Keep your heel, head and standards high.
Interpretation
Maintain high standards and confidence in yourself.
This quote by Coco Chanel emphasizes the importance of self-respect and maintaining high standards in life. It suggests that by keeping our self-esteem and aspirations elevated, we can navigate through challenges with grace and poise.
In practice
During a motivational speech to encourage students to pursue their dreams.
Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.
Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.
Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
You can be gorgeous at thirty, charming at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.
Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.
Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.
If people are not laughing at your dreams at least once a week, you are aiming too low!
You need never be discouraged or afraid. The way through difficulties has always been prepared for you, and you will find it if you exercise faith.
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.
People with high assurance in their capabilities approach difficult tasks as challenges to be mastered rather than as threats to be avoided.
Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
There are no shortcuts—everything is reps, reps, reps.
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