Life is a big collaboration - and when you're tackling something that is painful and troubling and is causing you such desperate grief that you think life's not worth living - you need to reach out. To people who will reach back.
Interpretation
Life is about collaboration and seeking support from others during difficult times.
In this quote, Tim Gunn emphasizes the importance of seeking help and support from others during challenging and painful moments in life. He acknowledges that when faced with overwhelming grief and despair, it’s crucial to reach out to people who can provide understanding and support, as life is inherently a shared experience where collaboration can make a significant difference in overcoming struggles.
In practice
In a motivational talk about mental health, you could quote this to encourage seeking support.
I've had my own moments in front of designers when I've actually said, 'You know, there's a market here for expanding your work, and here it is. And frankly, there are two markets: The women who are larger than the 12, and then there are women who are petite. And most designers that I talk to have absolutely no interest in addressing either of those populations, which I find repugnant.
Whoever's designing for plus-size doesn't get it. The entire garment needs to be reconceived. You can't just take a size 8 and make it larger.
My manners also came from when I was in college and began participating in critiques. You have to speak with someone respectfully about their work and be honest and open, without hurting them.
Has there not been, sometimes, this temptation to do a great deal for Christ, but not to live a great deal with Christ?
One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.
The number one reason that we don't get our needs met, we don't express them. We express judgments. If we do express needs, the number two reasons we don't our needs met, we don't make clear requests.
If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.
Jemu watched his father disappear. He didn't throw the coconut and he didn't cry. Never again would he know love for another human being that wasn't adulterated by another, contradictory emotion.
This was not my moment to be seeking romance and (as day follows night) to further complicate my already knotty life. This was my moment to look for the kind of healing and peace that can only come from solitude.
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