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.
If you want to make a good first impression, smile at people. What does it cost to smile? Nothing. What does it cost not to smile? Everything, if not smiling prevents you from enchanting people.
It wasn't right to have someone charge into you your world without even asking, acting as if you were nothing more than an egg to be flipped and flopped, sunny-side up or scrambled, depending on the whims on whoever ran your life..._
Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.
The miscegenation laws of the South only operate against the legitimate union of the races; they leave the white man free to seduce all the colored girls he can, but it is death to the colored man who yields to the force and advances of a similar attraction in white women. White men lynch the offending Afro-American, not because he is a despoiler of virtue, but because he succumbs to the smiles of white women.
The global work of the United Nations is not without reason compared to that of a family - striving for a common goal in concert with all members for a better future.
Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
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