Friends should be like books, few, but hand-selected.
Commitment is what your boss needs you to have. Choice is what you need to have.
Integrity reveals beauty.
Opportunities don't knock, they whisper. So shut up and listen.
The trappings of lifestyle are often that; traps.
Coaching doesn't make sick people well. . . it helps healthy people become extra-ordinary.
People who wait for a magic wand fail to see that they ARE the magic wand.
Creativity is a space for solitary longing, the desire to be elsewhere in space and time, to be in a new ideal world where life is as it should be.
Unless we are making progress in our nursing every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back.
I didn't see it as someone who worked as hard as I did. But now that Saint Laurent is part of history, it makes me a part of history, so, yes, finally it's not such a bad thing to have been a muse.
In Hong Kong, in our generation that started out in the 1970s, being a director wasn't a big deal. We didn't even have director's chairs. We weren't particularly well paid. The social standing of a film director wasn't that high. It was a sort of a plebeian job, a second or third grade one. And the studio heads are always practical, there's never any fawning because someone is a director. There's very little snobbery about one's position as a director. The only ones people treated differently were those that were also stars; or the directors who also owned their companies.