Just be true to yourself, and listen as much as one is able to to other people whose opinions you respect and look up to but in the end it has to come from you. You can’t really worry too much by looking to the left and the right about what the competition is doing or what other people in your field are doing. It has to be a true vision.
Interpretation
Be authentic and trust your own vision while valuing others' insights.
This quote emphasizes the importance of being true to oneself in the pursuit of one's goals, while still considering the opinions of respected individuals. Ultimately, the vision and decisions should stem from one’s own beliefs rather than being overly swayed by external influences or competition.
In practice
In a motivational speech about pursuing one's dreams.
It would be ridiculous to ignore the speed and possibilities of the digital landscape - you absolutely need to have fast-moving news online, but if you want to build a large audience over time, you absolutely have to take a risk on the big challenging stuff.
With all the new media outlets out there, with all the noise, a voice of authority and calm like Vogue becomes more important than ever. The more eyes on fashion, the more opinions about fashion, the more exploration of fashion around the world, the better it is for Vogue. Vogue is like Nike or Coca-Cola—this huge global brand. I want to enhance it, I want to protect it, and I want it to be part of the conversation.
'Vogue' and 'Vice' may appear to some to see the world through different lenses. But in my view, both are fearless and breathtaking, with unquenchable curiosity and vigor.
Fashion is not beautiful, neither is it ugly. Why should it be either? Fashion is fashion.
I think what I often see is that people are frightened about fashion. Because it scares them or makes them feel insecure, so they just put it down. On the whole people that may say the mean things about our world I think that’s usually because they feel, in some ways, excluded or, you know, not a part of ‘the cool group’ so as a result they just mock it.
I think we're living, in terms of media, in a very democratic age, but I think that we still look at everything through the lens of 'Vogue' and through our own point of view.
If one is the master of oneself, one is the resort one can depend on; therefore, one should control oneself of all.
Let the fruition of things bless the possession of them, and take no satisfaction in dying but living rich.
I've learned you don't always listen to your agents and managers. Sometimes they know nothing.
When I was young, a teacher had forbidden me to say "more perfect" because she said if a thing is perfect it can't be more so. But by now I had seen enough of life to have regained my confidence in it.
Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
We can often do more for other men by trying to correct our own faults than by trying to correct theirs.
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